Load-displacement properties of lower cervical spine motion segments

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 1988, Pages 769-779

  Moroney, Sean P ^a   Schultz, Albert B ^a   Miller, James A A ^a   Andersson, Gunnar B J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS--MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MATERIALS TESTING APPARATUS; MATERIALS--DEFORMATION; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT--FORCES;

LOAD-DISPLACEMENT PROPERTIES; LOWER CERVICAL SPINE; MOTION SEGMENTS;

BIOMECHANICS;

AUTOPSY; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL SPINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METHODOLOGY;

CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; MOVEMENT; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TORSION;

EID: 0023679020     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0021-9290(88)90285-0     Document Type: Article

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