High pressures and asymmetrical stresses in the scoliotic disc in the absence of muscle loading

Scoliosis

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Meir, Adam R ^a,b   Fairbank, Jeremy C T ^a   Jones, Deborah A ^b   McNally, Donal S ^c   Urban, Jill P G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34248345426     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17487161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-7161-2-4     Document Type: Article

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