Abdominal muscles contribute in a minor way to peak spinal compression in lifting

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 655-662

  De Looze, M P ^a,b   Groen, H ^a   Horemans, H ^a   Kingma, I ^a   Van Dieen J H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Abdominal muscles; Biomechanical modeling; Electro myography; Lifting; Spinal compression

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; MUSCLE; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

LIFTING; SPINAL COMPRESSION;

BIOMECHANICS;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE LENGTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; SUPERIOR OBLIQUE MUSCLE;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; PRESSURE; SPINE; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 0033033493     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0021-9290(99)00061-5     Document Type: Article

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