Dynamic stabilization versus fusion for treatment of degenerative spine conditions. [PDF]
, 2011 Study design Comparative effectiveness review.Study rationale Spinal fusion is believed to accelerate the degeneration of the vertebral segment above or below the fusion site, a condition called adjacent segment disease (ASD).
Chou, Dean +3 more
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Effects of Resistance Footrest on Spine Posture in Visual Display Terminal Workers
Physical Therapy Korea, 2021 Background: Flat-back posture refers to a posture in which the pelvis is tilted backward, the lumbar spine is bent, the upper thoracic spine is increasingly bent, and the lower thoracic spine is straight. Given that most of the day is spent sitting, we
Won-gyu Yoo
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Walking Biomechanics and Spine Loading in Patients With Symptomatic Lumbar Spinal Stenosis
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021 Symptomatic lumbar spinal stenosis is a leading cause of pain and mobility limitation in older adults. It is clinically believed that patients with lumbar spinal stenosis adopt a flexed trunk posture or bend forward and alter their gait pattern to ...
Seyed Javad Mousavi +7 more
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A marker set for measuring the kinematics of the lumbar spine and thoracic spine during running : a technical note [PDF]
, 2016 A protocol for tracking the motion of the lumbar spine, which uses seven skin mounted markers, has been adopted in previous studies investigating running. However, this configuration of can be difficult to track with passive motion capture systems.
Bramah, CA, Mason, D, Preece, SJ
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Modeling the effect of variation in sagittal curvature on the force required to produce a follower load in the lumbar spine [PDF]
, 2012 Peer ...
Heyman J. +4 more
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Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 2018 Recent field data showed that lumbar spine fractures occurred more frequently in late model vehicles than early ones in frontal crashes. However, the lumbar spine designs of the current crash test dummies are not accurate in human anatomy and have not ...
Jiajia Zheng, Liang Tang, Jingwen Hu
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Biomechanics of Lumbar Spine Injury in Road Barrier Collision–Finite Element Study
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2021 Literature and field data from CIREN database have shown that lumbar spine injuries occur during car crashes. There are multiple hypotheses regarding how they occur; however, there is no biomechanical explanation for these injuries during collisions with
L. Pachocki +3 more
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The Reliability of Standing Sagittal Measurements of Spinal Curvature and Range of Motion in Older Women With and Without Hyperkyphosis Using a Skin-Surface Device. [PDF]
, 2017 OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to investigate the intrarater reliability of a skin-surface instrument (Spinal Mouse, Idiag, Voletswil, Switzerland) in measuring standing sagittal curvature and global mobility of the spine in older women with and
Akbarzadeh Baghban, Alireza +7 more
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Fusion Surgery for Lumbar Spinal Stenosis: WFNS Spine Committee Recommendations
World Neurosurgery: X, 2020 Lumbar spine stenosis represents a complex degenerative pathology that has been a subject of significant dispute when it comes to fusion. A review of the literature from 2008 to 2019 was performed on the role of fusion in the treatment of lumbar spinal ...
Salman Sharif +4 more
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Change in bone mineral density in post menopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis [PDF]
, 2013 Introduction: Low bone mass is a serious complication of post menopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis. We determined the Change in Bone Mineral Density in postmenopausal women with rheumatoid arthritis.
Aghaei, M. +9 more
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