Task variability and extrapolated cumulative low back loads

Occupational Ergonomics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 149-159

  Dunk, Nadine M ^a   Keown, Kiera J ^b   Andrews, David M ^c   Callaghan, Jack P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomechanical spine model; Compression; Cumulative loading; Industrial tasks; Lifting; Repeatability; Shear; Spinal load

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547488155     PISSN: 13599364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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