A Box Lift and Place Assessment is Related to Performance of Several Military Manual Handling Tasks.
Soldiers undergo regular physical testing to assess their functional capacity. However, current physical tests, such as push-ups, sit-ups, and pull-ups, do not necessarily assess job-specific physical capability. This article assesses the utility of generic predictive tests and a task-related predic...
| Publicado en: | Military Medicine Vol. 181; no. 3; pp. 258 - 265 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Mar2016
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