Changes in Cervical Spine Bone Mineral Density in Response to Flight Training

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 3 SEC. I, 2004, Pages 255-259

  Naumann, Fiona L ^a   Grant, Meghan C ^a   Dhaliwal, Satvinda S ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bone mineral density; Cervical spine; Moderate +Gz force

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AIRPLANE PILOT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DENSITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MASS; BONE MINERAL; BONE MINERALIZATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FLIGHT; FORCE; HELMET; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NORMAL HUMAN; STRESS; TRAINING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AEROSPACE MEDICINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BONE DENSITY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; HUMANS; HYPERGRAVITY; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; OSTEOGENESIS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 1542410274     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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