Does prolonged sitting with limited legroom affect the flexibility of a healthy subject and their perception of discomfort?

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 471-480

  Cascioli, Vincenzo ^a,b   Heusch, Andrew I ^a   McCarthy, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discomfort; Flexibility; Legroom; Mobility; Sitting

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISCOMFORT; FLEXIBILITY; HEALTHY SUBJECTS; LEGROOM; NUMERICAL RATING SCALE; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; P-VALUES; PROLONGED SITTING; PUBLIC TRANSPORT; RANGE OF MOTIONS; SITTING; SUBJECTIVE RATING;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BUTTOCK; CHAIR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HAMSTRING; HAMSTRING FLEXIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEGROOM; LUMBAR FLEXIBILITY; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; MUSCULOSKELETAL STIFFNESS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NECK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; SITTING;

EID: 80051470558     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: 18728219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ergon.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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