Effect of load carriage on lumbar spine kinematics

Spine

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2013, Pages

  Rodríguez Soto, Ana E ^a   Jaworski, Rebecca ^e,g   Jensen, Andrew ^e,f   Niederberger, Brenda ^e   Hargens, Alan R ^c   Frank, Lawrence R ^a,d   Kelly, Karen R ^e,f   Ward, Samuel R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^f SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Marine Corps System Command   (United States)

Author keywords

Backpack; Load carriage; Low back pain; Lumbar spine kinematics; Military; MRI; Upright MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; FLEXOR REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; KINEMATICS; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLDIER; STANDING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISC; KYPHOSIS; LORDOSIS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MILITARY PERSONNEL; POSTURE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879126137     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e3182913e9f     Document Type: Article

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