Biomechanical response of a lumbar intervertebral disc to manual lifting activities: A poroelastic finite element model study

Spine

Volumn 33, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 1958-1965

  Natarajan, Raghu N ^a,b,d   Lavender, Steve A ^c   An, Howard A ^a   Andersson, Gunnar B J ^a  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Armour Academic Facility ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Lumbar spine; Manual material handling; Poroelastic finite element model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FORCE; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; JOINT; KINEMATICS; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; LUMBAR DISK; MUSCULOSKELETAL STRESS; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE INJURY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TISSUE INJURY; TRUNK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; PHYSIOLOGY; WEIGHT BEARING;

BIOMECHANICS; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LIFTING; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 60549084213     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181822742     Document Type: Article

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