Estimation of compressive forces on lumbar spine from categorical posture data

Ergonomics

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2082-2094

  Tak, S ^a   Punnett, L ^a   Paquet, V ^b   Woskie, S ^a   Buchholz, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanical modelling; Construction; Monte Carlo simulation; Posture assessment

Indexed keywords

BONE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERGONOMICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

BIOMECHANICAL MODELLING; LUMBAR SPINE; POSTURE ASSESSMENT;

BIOMECHANICS;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRUCTION WORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT FUNCTION; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; SPINE MOBILITY; TRUNK; WEIGHT BEARING;

BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; UNITED STATES; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 36549077799     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140130701417855     Document Type: Article

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