Changes in trunk dynamics and spine loading during repeated trunk exertions

WS Marras, KP Granata - Spine, 1997 - journals.lww.com
… of both trunk and hip kinematics and estimated trunk loadingTrunk kinematics variables
included trunk angle range of motion… trunk also was evaluated during the standard test exertion. …

Variation in spinal load and trunk dynamics during repeated lifting exertions

KP Granata, WS Marras, KG Davis - Clinical Biomechanics, 1999 - Elsevier
… of spinal load during repeated lifting exertions. Surprisingly, experienced subjects demonstrated
significantly greater spinal loads and within-subject variability in spinal load … shear load. …

Spine loading during trunk lateral bending motions

WS Marras, KP Granata - Journal of biomechanics, 1997 - Elsevier
… During right lateral exertions, compression forces were greater when the trunk was laterally
flexed 15” to the left compared to upright exertions, and much greater than when flexed 15” …

The influence of trunk muscle coactivity on dynamic spinal loads

KP Granata, WS Marras - Spine, 1995 - journals.lww.com
… The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of muscle coactivity on modeled
spinal load that occur during lifting exertions. The biomechanical literature" demonstrates that …

Estimation of trunk muscle forces and spinal loads during fatiguing repetitive trunk exertions

PJ Sparto, M Parnianpour - Spine, 1998 - journals.lww.com
… The results of the study do not suggest that an increase in the muscular loading of the spine
occurs as a result of changing trunk muscular recruitment patterns. Therefore, future studies …

Relative contribution of trunk muscles to the stability of the lumbar spine during isometric exertions

J Cholewicki, JJ Vanvliet Iv - Clinical biomechanics, 2002 - Elsevier
… various trunk muscles to spine stability is currently unknown. … exertions in trunk flexion,
extension, lateral bending, and axial rotation, and isometric exertions under vertical trunk loading

The effects of motion on trunk biomechanics

KG Davis, WS Marras - Clinical biomechanics, 2000 - Elsevier
… impact of trunk dynamics on trunk strength and structural loading … , imposed trunk moments
during dynamic exertions were … located that evaluated spinal loads during flexion exertions. …

Effects of external trunk loads on lumbar spine stability

J Cholewicki, APD Simons, A Radebold - Journal of biomechanics, 2000 - Elsevier
trunk load magnitudes and directions affect lumbar spine stability… effective trunk stiffness
and stability were calculated from trunk … These results held true for all of the exertion directions …

Co-contraction recruitment and spinal load during isometric trunk flexion and extension

KP Granata, PE Lee, TC Franklin - Clinical Biomechanics, 2005 - Elsevier
… reduction in spinal load was attributed the fact that trunk moment … and extension exertions
with similar trunk moment magnitude. … spinal load during flexion exertions is greater than trunk

Trunk loading and expectation

WS MARRAS, SL RANGARAJULU, SA Lavender - Ergonomics, 1987 - Taylor & Francis
… force exertion, as well as more rapid increases in trunk force … loading the trunk response
resembled an expected loading of … which the spine is overloaded during unexpected loading. In …