The role of dorsal shear forces in the pathogenesis of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis - A hypothesis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 501-508

  Castelein, René M ^a   Van Dieën, Jaap H ^b   Smit, Theo H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; BODY POSTURE; BONE GROWTH; BRACE; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; JOINT INSTABILITY; LORDOSIS; MUSCLE FORCE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ROTATION; SCHEUERMANN DISEASE; SCOLIOSIS; SHEAR STRESS; VERTEBRA;

ADOLESCENT; HUMANS; SCOLIOSIS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 22044451058     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.03.025     Document Type: Article

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