Range of motion and orientation of the lumbar facet joints in vivo

Spine

Volumn 34, Issue 19, 2009, Pages

  Kozanek, Michal ^a   Wang, Shaobai ^a,b   Passias, Peter G ^a   Xia, Qun ^a,c   Lee, Gang ^a   Bono, Christopher M ^d   Wood, Kirkham B ^a   Li, Guoan ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Tianjin Hospital   (China)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Facet orientation; In vivo kinematics; Lumbar facet zygoapophyseal joints; Range of motion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; JOINT MOBILITY; KINEMATICS; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; STANDING; SUPINE POSITION; TRUNK; WEIGHT BEARING; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

ARTHROGRAPHY; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; POSTURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; ROTATION; TORSION, MECHANICAL; WEIGHT-BEARING; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 70349140569     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181ab4456     Document Type: Article

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