Muscular and kinematic behavior of the lumbar spine during flexion-extension

AM Kaigle, P Wessberg, TH Hansson - Clinical Spine Surgery, 1998 - journals.lww.com
spine, and hip flexion, … segment, trunk flexion, and the electromyographic activity in the
lumbar erector spinae muscles were simultaneously measured during dynamic flexion-extension

In vivo flexion/extension of the normal cervical spine

J Dvorak, MM Panjabi, JE Novotny… - Journal of Orthopaedic …, 1991 - Wiley Online Library
… passive flexion/extension examinations of the cervical spine. … in the lower segments of the
cervical spine between gender … quantify the flexion/extension motion of the cervical spine in a …

The flexionextension profile of lumbar spine in 100 healthy volunteers

KWN Wong, JCY Leong, M Chan, KDK Luk, WW Lu - Spine, 2004 - journals.lww.com
… Intervertebral flexionextension (IVFE) of each vertebral … spinal motion of different genders
was compared segment by … spine was relatively linear in 10 of extension to 40 of flexion. This …

Biomechanical Characteristics of Different Regions of the Human Spine: An: In Vitro: Study on Multilevel Spinal Segments

I Busscher, JH van Dieën, I Kingma, AJ van der Veen… - Spine, 2009 - journals.lww.com
… of the whole lumbar spine were tested to a 4 Nm moment in flexion/extension and lateral
bending. A ROM of the L2–L3 motion segment was found in flexion/extension of 5.5 4 and 8, 21 …

Segmental percentage contributions of cervical spine during different motion ranges of flexion and extension

SK Wu, LC Kuo, HCH Lan, SW Tsai… - Clinical Spine …, 2010 - journals.lww.com
… contributed the greatest angular motion, followed by C5/6 and C3/4, during the cervical
flexion and extension, whereas the C2/3 segment contributed the least angular motion during …

[PDF][PDF] Non-linearity of flexion-extension characteristics in spinal segments

H Naegerl, T Hawellek, A Lehmann, J Hubert… - Acta Bioeng …, 2009 - actabio.pwr.edu.pl
… Rotational angle–torque characteristics of human spinal segments show distinctive
nonlinearity. As shown below in flexion/extension, the characteristics of L3/L4- and L4/L5-segments

How do spinal segments move?

MM Wachowski, M Mansour, C Lee… - Journal of …, 2009 - Elsevier
… Mechanical properties of spinal segments were typically … indication for segment kinematics.
One held a priori that the … right/left rotated segment under stationary extension or flexion

Experimental flexion/extension data corridors for validation of finite element models of the young, normal cervical spine

JA Wheeldon, FA Pintar, S Knowles… - Journal of …, 2006 - Elsevier
… cervical spine segments C2–T1 ranging in age from 20 to 51 years. Prior to testing, the spines
Spine segments were tested in flexion/extension, and the range of loads applied to the …

Flexion and extension structural properties and strengths for male cervical spine segments

RW Nightingale, VC Chancey, D Ottaviano… - Journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
… the lower cervical spine segments (C2–… flexion and extension. The hypotheses were tested
by using pure bending moments to produce injuries in male human cadaver spinal segments, …

Validation of single-segment and three-segment spinal models used to represent lumbar flexion

V Kippers, AW Parker - Journal of biomechanics, 1989 - Elsevier
… angular change during flexion than a three-segment model. … flexion contributed more than
extension, ranging from types of support on the segmental mobility of the lumbosacral spine