Predicting upper limb discomfort for plastic surgeons wearing loupes based on multi-objective optimization

Plastic surgeons report neck, shoulder and back pain when wearing head-mounted magnifiers (loupes) during operations. There will be many factors contributing to such pain. In order to explore these factors this paper developed a novel application of Multi-objective Optimization (MOO) which used post...

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Main Authors: Zhelin Li, Chris Baber, Francois-Xavier Li, Christopher Macdonald, Yvette Godwin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2017-01-01
Series:Cogent Engineering
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311916.2017.1398702