Do cervical muscles play a role in whiplash injury?

Journal of Whiplash and Related Disorders

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-40

  Siegmund, Gunter P ^a   Brault, John R ^a   Chimich, Dennis D ^a  

^a MacInnis Engineering Associates   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Cervical; Injury; Muscle; Reflex; Whiplash

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE REFLEX; NECK MUSCLE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WHIPLASH INJURY;

EID: 0038407453     PISSN: 15332888     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J180v01n01_03     Document Type: Conference Paper

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