Quantify work load and muscle functional activation patterns in neck-shoulder muscles of female sewing machine operators using surface electromyogram

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 124, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 3731-3737

  Zhang, Fei Ruo ^a   He, Li Hua ^a   Wu, Shan Shan ^a   Li, Jing Yun ^a   Ye, Kang Pin ^a   Wang, Sheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Muscle activity pattern; Neck shoulder pain; Occupational health; Surface electromyogram

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CERVICAL ERECTOR SPINAE MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; FEMALE WORKER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAXIMAL VOLUNTARY MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NECK MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OPERATOR; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEWING MACHINE OPERATION; SEWING MACHINE OPERATOR; SHOULDER MUSCLE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; WORK; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECK MUSCLES; SHOULDER; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; WORKLOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 82255195487     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0366-6999.2011.22.024     Document Type: Article

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