Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 31, Issue 8 , Pages 937-944 , October 2009

Platform accelerations of three different whole-body vibration devices and the transmission of vertical vibrations to the lower limbs

  • J.J.M. Pel

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Dept. of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, PO Box 2040, 3000 CA Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 10 704 3385; fax: +31 10 704 4738.
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  • J. Bagheri

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • L.M. van Dam

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • H.J.G. van den Berg-Emons

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • H.L.D. Horemans

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • H.J. Stam

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Rehabilitation Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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  • J. van der Steen

      Affiliations

    • Dept. of Neuroscience, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Received 13 May 2008 ,Revised 12 May 2009 ,Accepted 13 May 2009.

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PII: S1350-4533(09)00116-7

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2009.05.005

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 31, Issue 8 , Pages 937-944 , October 2009

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