Comparing the comfort and potential military performance restriction of neck collars from the body armor of six different countries.
The aim of this trial was to undertake an assessment of ballistic neck collars to assess comfort and potential military performance restriction. Neck collars from six different countries were procured with 71 U.K. servicemen assessing two randomly allocated collars to rate one against the other. 58%...
| Publicado en: | Military Medicine Vol. 176; no. 11; pp. 1274 - 1278 |
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| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , |
| Formato: | clinical trial research Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Nov2011
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