Manual Therapy
Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 133-138 , May 2007

Initial development of a device for controlling manually applied forces

  • Gordon S. Waddington

      Affiliations

    • Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, University of Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61262012737; fax: +61262015727.
    • ,
  • Roger D. Adams

      Affiliations

    • School of Physiotherapy, The University of Sydney, Australia, P.O. Box 170, Lidcombe NSW 1825, Australia

Received 8 August 2003 ,Revised 28 January 2006 ,Accepted 2 June 2006.

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Manual Therapy
Volume 12, Issue 2 , Pages 133-138 , May 2007

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