An Assessment of the Interplay between the Shoulders and the Low Back in Occupational Tasks: A Manual Patient Handling Example

Redundancy and variation are characteristics of humans. Many muscles contribute to producing a movement at a joint, allowing different strategies for task performance. Further, the shoulders and back are involved in many tasks, including manual materials handling, but flexibility as to their relativ...

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Main Author: Belbeck, Alicia
Language:en
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/5662