Pain Associated with Prolonged Constrained Standing: The Invisible Epidemic

Occupational Health and Safety: International Influences and the "New" Epidemics

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 139-157

  Messing, Karen ^a   Lippel, Katherine ^a   Laperrière, Ève ^a   Thibault, Marie Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315224015-8     Document Type: Chapter

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