Maximum allowable force on a safety harness cable to discriminate a successful from a failed balance recovery

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1566-1569

  Cyr, Marc André ^a,b   Smeesters, Cécile ^a,b  

^a Research Centre on Aging   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balance; Falls; Postural perturbations; Safety harness; Stepping

Indexed keywords

BALANCE; FALLS; POSTURAL PERTURBATIONS; SAFETY HARNESS; STEPPING;

CABLES; CURVE FITTING; EXPERIMENTS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

RECOVERY;

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTERIOR POSTERIOR; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSITION; BODY WEIGHT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE FORCE; MEDIAL LATERAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SAFETY HARNESS CABLE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; POSTURE; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 67649506231     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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