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Back muscle strength, lifting, and stooped working postures

✍ Scribed by Ellen Poulsen; Kurt Jørgensen

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1971
Tongue
English
Weight
495 KB
Volume
2
Category
Article
ISSN
0003-6870

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