… the development of spinal loads. Thus, our understanding of how the spine is loaded under
… A biologically-assisted or EMG-assisted model has been developed in our laboratory over …

… that may influence spinal loading, and to demonstrate that EMG-assisted modeling techniques
can be applied to the analysis of free-dynamic exertions. Spinal loads and trunk moments …

… EMGassisted models treated the gain as an error term by allowing it to vary from trial to trial.
No EMGassisted model … develop a model of low-back mechanics and spinal loading which …

… that the EMG assisted optimization approach will result in somewhat similar conclusions to
the EMG approach; If hypothesis 3 is true, we will present arguments that the EMG assisted …

… to traditional MVC-based EMG normalization. Spinal loading for individuals who are unwilling
… Typically, EMG-assisted models perform best at higher loading conditions and, thus, one …

… The sagittally-symmetric trunk model in the upright standing posture under gravity loading
represented in both sagittal (left) and coronal (right) planes. Total of 76 muscles were …

… novel personalized EMG-assisted model that overcomes … spinal tissue loading during
complex dynamic occupational tasks. Since this model will be used for understanding neck loading …

… Furthermore, in the asymmetric lift, a task which generated identical external moments for
all load heights, our 3D observations concurred with those of Granata and Orishimo (2001) for …

… of an EMG-assisted model to be … the load and tolerance distributions. Since there are
currently no feasible means to characterize load or tolerance in vivo, we must rely on spine models …

… load of 12 kg. Three-dimensional kinematics and dynamics as well as surface EMG provided
inputs to a 12 muscle lumbar spine model… approaches but spine compression was not. Both …