Different arm positions and the shape of the thoracic spine can explain contradictory results in the literature about spinal loads for sitting and standing

Spine

Volumn 35, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 2015-2021

  Dreischarf, Marcel ^a   Bergmann, Georg ^a   Wilke, Hans Joachim ^b   Rohlmann, Antonius ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

sitting; spinal load; spinal shape; standing; telemetry; vertebral body replacement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; KYPHOSIS; LORDOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; STANDING; STEREORADIOGRAPHY; THORACIC SPINE; VERTEBRA BODY;

AGED; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTURE; PRONE POSITION; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SPINE; SUPINE POSITION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 78149253744     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3181d55d52     Document Type: Article

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