Vertebral bodies or discs: Which contributes more to human-like lumbar lordosis?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 468, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1822-1829

  Been, Ella ^a   Barash, Alon ^a   Marom, Assaf ^a   Kramer, Patricia A ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MACACA; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECUMBENCY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY; STANDING; VERTEBRA BODY; ANIMAL; HISTOLOGY; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MACACA MULATTA; POSTURE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77953994066     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-009-1153-7     Document Type: Article

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