Novel model to analyze the effect of a large compressive follower pre-load on range of motions in a lumbar spine

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1326-1332

  Renner, Susan M ^a,d   Natarajan, Raghu N ^a,b   Patwardhan, Avinash G ^c,d   Havey, Robert M ^c,d   Voronov, Leonard I ^d   Guo, Bev Y ^d   Andersson, Gunnar B J ^b   An, Howard S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element; Follower load; Kinematics; Lumbar spine

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FOLLOWER LOAD; LUMBAR SPINE; RANGE OF MOTIONS (ROM);

BIOMECHANICS;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CADAVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPRESSION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; SPINE MOBILITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; CADAVER; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33947589092     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2006.05.019     Document Type: Article

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