An assessment of wrist splint and glove use on wheeling kinematics

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 234-236

  Malone, Laurie A ^a   Gervais, Pierre L ^a   Burnham, Robert S ^a   Chan, Ming ^a   Miller, Linda ^b   Steadward, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Ergo Works Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Median nerve; Wheelchair propulsion; Wrist splints

Indexed keywords

JOINTS (ANATOMY); KINEMATICS; WHEELCHAIRS;

WHEELCHAIR PROPULSION; WRIST SPLINTS;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOVE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT HYPERMOBILITY; MEDIAN NERVE; NEUROPATHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPLINT; VELOCITY; WHEELCHAIR; WRIST;

EID: 7144235811     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(97)00034-X     Document Type: Article

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