Lumbar disc volume measured by MRI: Effects of bed rest, horizontal exercise, and vertical loading

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 73-78

  Hutton, William C ^a,b,c   Malko, John A ^a   Fajman, William A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fluid; Intervertebral disc; MRI; Weightlessness

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BED REST; BODY WEIGHT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FLUID FLOW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINESIOTHERAPY; LUMBAR DISK; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPACE FLIGHT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; WALKING; WATER LOSS; WATER RETENTION; WEIGHT BEARING; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ADULT; BED REST; EXERCISE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; FEMALE; FLUID SHIFTS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0037225857     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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