The contribution of load magnitude and number of load cycles to cumulative low-back load estimations: A study based on in-vitro compression data

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1083-1086

  Coenen, Pieter ^a,b   Kingma, Idsart ^a,b   Boot, Cécile R L ^b,c   Bongers, Paulien M ^b,d   Van Dieën, Jaap H ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Body Work   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cumulative load; Low back pain; Mechanical load; Spinal segment fractures

Indexed keywords

5-LEVEL; AKAIKE'S INFORMATION CRITERIONS; AVERAGE ERRORS; BEST FIT; COMPRESSION DATA; COMPRESSIVE LOADING; CUMULATIVE LOADS; CUMULATIVE SPINAL COMPRESSION; CYCLIC COMPRESSION; DATA POINTS; FATIGUE FRACTURE; GOODNESS OF FIT; IN-VITRO; LOAD CYCLE; LOAD ESTIMATION; LOAD LEVELS; LOAD MAGNITUDE; LOW BACK; LOW BACK PAIN; MECHANICAL LOADS; NUMBER OF CYCLES; OPTIMIZATION PROCEDURES; SPINAL SEGMENTS; SURVIVAL PROBABILITIES;

FRACTURE;

DATA COMPRESSION;

ARTICLE; FATIGUE; IN VITRO STUDY; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS FRACTURE; VERTEBRA COMPRESSION;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FRACTURES, COMPRESSION; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; PRESSURE; SPINAL FRACTURES; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84869503616     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: 18791271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2012.07.010     Document Type: Article

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