Contact pressure in the facet joint during sagittal bending of the cadaveric cervical spine

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 133, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Jaumard, Nicolas V ^a   Bauman, Joel A ^a   Weisshaar, Christine L ^a,b   Guarino, Benjamin B ^b   Welch, William C ^a   Winkelstein, Beth A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cervical spine; contact pressure; facet joint; pressure transducer; sagittal bending

Indexed keywords

ARTICULAR CONTACT; ARTICULAR SURFACES; BIOMECHANICAL FUNCTIONS; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTACT PRESSURE; CONTACT PRESSURES; FACET CONTACTS; FACET JOINTS; FLEXION MOMENTS; GLOBAL MOTION; INFRA-RED CAMERAS; JOINT SPACE; LOCAL ENVIRONMENTS; LUMBAR SPINES; MOTION SEGMENTS; PRESSURE PROFILES; PRESSURE VALUES; QUANTITATIVE MEASURES; SAGITTAL BENDING;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS; ROTATION;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CARTILAGE DEGENERATION; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTACT PRESSURE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PRESSURE; RANGE OF MOTION; SAGITTAL BENDING; SPINE MOBILITY; SYNOVIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; JOINT CAPSULE; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MECHANICAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; SPINE; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; JOINT CAPSULE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; PRESSURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SPINE; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 79960671330     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: 15288951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004409     Document Type: Article

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