Decline of functional capacity in healthy aging workers

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 93, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2326-2332

  Soer, Remko ^a   Brouwer, Sandra ^a   Geertzen, Jan H ^a   Van Der Schans, Cees P ^b   Groothoff, Johan W ^a   Reneman, Michiel F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HANZE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aging; Occupational health; Rehabilitation; Work capacity evaluation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINGER; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY EVALUATION; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GROUPS BY AGE; HAND DEXTERITY; HAND MOVEMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RAND 36 QUESTIONNAIRE; WORK CAPACITY; WORKER; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AGING; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; REHABILITATION CENTERS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WORK CAPACITY EVALUATION; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84869489550     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: 1532821X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apmr.2012.07.009     Document Type: Article

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