Journal article
Whole-body vibration transmissibility in supine humans: Effects of board litter and neck collar
APPLIED ERGONOMICS, Vol.45(3), pp.677-685
2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2013.09.007
Abstract
Whole-body vibration has been identified as a stressor to supine patients during medical transportation. The transmissibility between the input platform acceleration and the output acceleration of the head, sternum, pelvis, head-sternum, and pelvis-sternum of eight supine subjects were investigated. Vibration files were utilized in the fore-aft, lateral, and vertical directions. The power spectral density across the bandwidth of 0.5-20 Hz was approximately flat for each file. A comparison between a baseline rigid-support and a support with a long spinal board strapped to a litter has shown that the latter has considerable effects on the transmitted motion in all directions with a double magnification in the vertical direction around 5 Hz. The results also showed that the neck-collar has increased the relative head-sternum flexion extension because of the input fore-aft vibration, but reduced the head-sternum extension compression due to the input vertical vibration. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd and The Ergonomics Society. All rights reserved.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Whole-body vibration transmissibility in supine humans: Effects of board litter and neck collar
- Creators
- J Meusch - University of IowaS Rahmatalla - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- APPLIED ERGONOMICS, Vol.45(3), pp.677-685
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.apergo.2013.09.007
- ISSN
- 1872-9126
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2014
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984239293902771
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