Trunk biomechanical models based on equilibrium at a single-level violate equilibrium at other levels

European Spine Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 701-709

  Arjmand, N ^a   Shirazi Adl, A ^a   Parnianpour, M ^b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Equilibrium; Kinematics driven model; Muscle forces; Single level free body diagram model; Spine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; KINEMATICS; MUSCLE FORCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE; TRUNK; WEIGHT BEARING;

BACK; BIOMECHANICS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPINE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 34248582560     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-006-0263-0     Document Type: Article

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