Relationship between everyday activities and spinal shrinkage

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 547-550

  Van Deursen, L L ^a   Van Deursen, D L ^a   Snijders, C J ^a   Wilke, H J ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activities of daily life; Intervertebral disc pressure; Low back pain; Spinal load; Spinal shrinkage

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; MUSCLE; PRESSURE EFFECTS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SHRINKAGE;

CLINICAL EVALUATION; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITIES; SPINAL LOAD; SPINAL SHRINKAGE;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYCLING; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DYNAMIC EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECUMBENCY; SITTING; SPINE DISEASE; STANDING; STATIC EXERCISE; WAKEFULNESS; WALKING;

EID: 17044430162     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2005.01.005     Document Type: Article

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