Calibration of an instrumented treatment table for measuring manual therapy forces applied to the cervical spine

Manual Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-179

  Snodgrass, Suzanne J ^a   Rivett, Darren A ^a   Robertson, Val J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Cervical vertebrae; Manual therapies; Musculoskeletal manipulations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL SPINE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MOBILIZATION; MUSCLE FORCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BEDS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MANIPULATION, SPINAL; MUSCULOSKELETAL MANIPULATIONS; NECK PAIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 40749150682     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2007.04.002     Document Type: Article

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