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V Balasubramanian1, M Jagannath, K Adalarasu

  • 1Rehabilitation Bioengineering Group, Department of Engineering Design, IIT Madras, Chennai 600036, India.

Applied Ergonomics
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Bicycle designMuscle fatiguePostureRGB pain scaleSurface electromyography (sEMG)

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