The effect of load weight on balance control during lateral box transfers

Ergonomics

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1359-1367

  Catena, Robert D ^a,b   DiDomenico, Angela ^b   Banks, Jacob J ^b   Dennerlein, Jack T ^a,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b LIBERTY MUTUAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR SAFETY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance control; Falls; Load weight; Manual material handling

Indexed keywords

ANKLE STIFFNESS; BALANCE CONTROL; BODY WEIGHT; CENTRE OF MASS; CO-CONTRACTION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHIC ACTIVITY; FALLS; HIGH RATE; LOAD WEIGHTS; LOWER EXTREMITY MUSCLES; MANUAL MATERIAL HANDLING; MATERIAL HANDLING; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; MUSCLE ACTIVITIES;

MATERIALS; MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT; MUSCLE;

MATERIALS HANDLING;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFTING; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTURAL BALANCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77958546463     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2010.519055     Document Type: Article

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