Assessment of Muscle Activation of Caregivers Performing Dependent Transfers With a Novel Robotic-Assisted Transfer Device Compared With the Hoyer Advance.

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• Eline R Blaauw
  From the Human Engineering Research Laboratories, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (ERB, MG, SB, HK, GGG, RC, AMK, RAC); School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (ERB, MG, SB, HK, GGG, RC, AMK, RAC) and Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Technology, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (MG, SB, HK, GGG, RC, AMK, RAC), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Centre for Human Movement Sciences, Groningen, the Netherlands (ERB, RV).
• Mark Greenhalgh
  From the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Technology, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (MG, HK, SB, SA, TMC, GGG, AMK, RAC); and Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Health Care System, and University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (MG, JML, JB, HK, SB, SA, ND, TMC, GGG, AMK, RAC).
• Riemer Vegter
  Centre for Human Movement Sciences, University of Groningen, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
• Sarah Bass
• Hailee Kulich
• Garrett G Grindle
• Rosemarie Cooper
  Center of Excellence in Wheelchairs and Associated Rehabilitation Engineering, Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System and Human Engineering Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh, PA; Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Technology, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Alicia M Koontz
• Rory A Cooper

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