Axial stiffness of human lumbar motion segments, force dependence

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 503-509

  Rostedt, M ^a   Ekstrom L ^a   Broman, H ^b   Hansson, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Human; Intervertebral disk; Spine; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; STIFFNESS; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

HUMAN; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; SPINE;

BIOMECHANICS;

ACCELERATION; ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; DYNAMICS; FORCE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOTION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; WEIGHT BEARING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE DENSITY; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0032096429     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(98)00037-2     Document Type: Article

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