Mechanical properties of human lumbar spine motion segments: Influences of age, sex, disc level, and degeneration

Spine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1979, Pages 1-8

  Nachemson, Alf L ^a   Schultz, Albert B ^b   Berkson, Michael H ^c  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Disc degeneration; Disc level; Lumbar spine; Mechanical behavior; Motion segments; Sex

Indexed keywords

AGE; BONE; BONE ATROPHY; DIAGNOSIS; JOINT STABILITY; LUMBAR SPINE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DISPLACEMENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; MIDDLE AGE; MOVEMENT; SEX FACTORS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0018383388     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-197901000-00001     Document Type: Article

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5. Schultz AB, Warwick DN, Berkson MH, Nachemson AL: Mechanical properties of human lumbar spine motion segments, Part I: Responses in flexion, extension, lateral bending, and torsion. (Unpublished data) 1977