Biomechanics of the aging spine

Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation

Volumn 42, Issue , 2006, Pages 1-6

  Board, Derek ^a   Stemper, Brian D ^a   Yoganandan, Narayan ^a   Pintar, Frank A ^a   Shender, Barry ^b   Paskoff, Glenn ^b  

^a CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Cervical spine; Flexibility; Pure moment; Range of motion

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION ESTIMATION;

CERVICAL SPINES; FLEXIBILITY; PURE MOMENT; RANGE OF MOTION;

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; AGE; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOTION; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGING; BIOMECHANICS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33745201636     PISSN: 00678856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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