Is 'ideal' sitting posture real?: Measurement of spinal curves in four sitting postures

Manual Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 404-408

  Claus, Andrew P ^a   Hides, Julie A ^a   Moseley, G Lorimer ^b   Hodges, Paul W ^a  

^a Injury and Health   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lumbosacral region; Posture; Sitting; Thoracic vertebrae

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KYPHOSIS; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SITTING; THORACIC SPINE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; POSTURE; SPINE; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 67349089594     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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