Lumbar spine disc heights and curvature: Upright posture vs. supine compression harness

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 5 I, 2003, Pages 512-516

  Lee, Shi Uk ^a   Hargens, Alan R ^b   Fredericson, Michael ^c   Lang, Philipp K ^d  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b UCSD MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Harness; Low back pain; Magnetic resonance imaging; Vertically open MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; BODY WEIGHT; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; KNEELING; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; LUMBAR SPINE DISC HEIGHT; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPINAL COMPRESSION HARNESS; SPINAL LENGTHENING; SPINE CURVATURE; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; VERTEBRA COMPRESSION; VERTICALLY OPEN NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; WEIGHT BEARING;

NASA DISCIPLINE MUSCULOSKELETAL; NON-NASA CENTER;

ADULT; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUPINE POSITION; WEIGHT-BEARING;

HARNESS;

EID: 0038077532     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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