Intrathecal Ligaments and Nerve Root Tension: Possible Sources of Lumbar Pain during Spaceflight

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 4 SEC. I, 2004, Pages 354-358

  Kershner, David ^a,b   Binhammer, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Back pain; Lumbar intrathecal ligaments; Spaceflight; Spinal lengthening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMONAUT; DORSAL ROOT; DURA MATER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIGAMENT DISEASE; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MICROGRAVITY; NERVE ROOT INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SIMULATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE LENGTHENING; SPINE MOBILITY; TENSION; TETHERED CORD SYNDROME;

CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMANS; LIGAMENTS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RADICULOPATHY; SPACE FLIGHT; SPINE; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 1842527076     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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