Coordination between the lumbar spine lordosis and trunk angle during weight lifting

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-127

  Mitnitski, A B ^a   Yahia, L H ^a   Newman, N M ^b   Gracovetsky, S A ^c,d   Feldman, A G ^e,f  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^d Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^e Rehabilitation Institute of Montreal   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coordination of motion; Lordosis; Redundancy; Weight lifting

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); KINEMATICS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM;

LUMBAR LORDOSIS; WEIGHT LIFTING;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSTURE; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 0032029250     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(97)00044-2     Document Type: Article

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