Relationship between disc injury and manual lifting: A poroelastic finite element model study

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine

Volumn 222, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-207

  Natarajan, Raghu N ^a,b   Williams, J R ^a   Lavender, S A ^c   An, H S ^a   Andersson, G B ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Injury; Lumbar disc; Manual lifting

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; TISSUE; BIOHAZARDS; BIOMINERALIZATION;

LUMBAR DISC; PLATE CALCIFICATION; SCLEROSIS;

BIOMECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

BIOMECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; INJURY; INTRADISCAL PRESSURES; LOADING CONDITION; LOCALIZED FAILURE; LUMBAR DISC; MANUAL LIFTING; POROELASTIC FINITE ELEMENTS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INJURY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POROSITY; SPINE INJURY; STATISTICS; WEIGHT BEARING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LIFTING; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POROSITY; SPINAL INJURIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 42649138604     PISSN: 09544119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544119JEIM260     Document Type: Article

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