Electromyographic and Kinematic Exploration of Whiplash-Type Neck Perturbations in Left Lateral Collisions

Spine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 650-659

  Kumar, Shrawan ^a   Ferrari, Robert ^a   Narayan, Yogesh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acceleration; Cervical muscles; Electromyography; Lateral impacts; Motor vehicle collisions; Whiplash injury

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; CADAVER; CERVICAL SPINE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; KINEMATICS; NECK INJURY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STERNOCLEIDOMASTOID MUSCLE; TRAPEZIUS MUSCLE; VELOCITY; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ACCELERATION; AWARENESS; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; NECK MUSCLES; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 1542510543     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.BRS.0000115136.24824.DF     Document Type: Article

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