Spinal muscles can create compressive follower loads in the lumbar spine in a neutral standing posture

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 472-478

  Han, Kap Soo ^a,b   Rohlmann, Antonius ^b   Yang, Seok Jo ^c   Kim, Byeong Sam ^a   Lim, Tae Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Chungnam National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Follower load; Spinal muscles; Spine

Indexed keywords

BACK MUSCLES; COMPRESSIVE LOADS; EXTERNAL LOADS; FOLLOWER LOADS; IN-VIVO; INTERVERTEBRAL JOINTS; JOINT MOMENT; LOADING CONDITION; LUMBAR SPINES; MUSCLE FORCE; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OPTIMIZATION ANALYSIS; OPTIMUM LOCATION; OPTIMUM SOLUTION; SPINAL COLUMN; SPINAL MUSCLES; SPINE; STANDING POSTURE; STATIC MODEL; VERTEBRAL BODY;

BIOMECHANICS; LOADS (FORCES); OPTIMIZATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

MUSCLE;

ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; COMPRESSION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; INTERVERTEBRAL ARTICULATION; JOINT STABILITY; LOADING TEST; LUMBAR SPINE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE FORCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; VERTEBRA BODY; WEIGHT BEARING;

BIOMECHANICS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MUSCLES; POSTURE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 79953294142     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2010.11.014     Document Type: Article

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