Transfer from table to wheelchair in men and women with spinal cord injury: Coordination of body movement and arm forces

Spinal Cord

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-48

  Forslund, E B ^a   Granstrom A ^a   Levi, R ^a   Westgren, N ^a   Hirschfeld, H ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Force plate; Kinematics; Paraplegia; Transfer strategy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; BUTTOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; FORCE; HAND; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL FUNCTION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TECHNICAL AID; WHEELCHAIR;

ADULT; AGED; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 33846089065     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.sc.3101935     Document Type: Article

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