Changes in lumbar lordosis modify the role of the extensor muscles

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 777-780

  McGill, Stuart M ^a   Hughson, Richard L ^a   Parks, Kellie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Injury; Lordosis; Muscle action; Shear force

Indexed keywords

BONE; CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; MEDICAL IMAGING; MUSCLE; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

FIBER ANGLE; ILIOCOSTALIS LUMBORUM; LONGISSIMUS THORACIS; LUMBAR LORDOSIS;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LORDOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINE DISEASE;

EID: 0034578694     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(00)00037-1     Document Type: Article

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