Height increase, neuromuscular function, and back pain during 6°head- down tilt with traction

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 24-29

  Styf, Jorma R ^a,b   Ballard, Richard E ^a   Fechner, Klaus ^a   Watenpaugh, Donald E ^a   Kahan, Norman J ^a   Hargens, Alan R ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; BACKACHE; BED REST; BODY HEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMBAR DISK; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; TRACTION THERAPY;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE MUSCULOSKELETAL; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 26-10; NASA PROGRAM SPACE PHYSIOLOGY AND COUNTERMEASURES;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; BACK PAIN; BED REST; BIOMECHANICS; BODY HEIGHT; HEAD-DOWN TILT; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; TRACTION; WEIGHTLESSNESS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 0031021807     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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