Abstract Background The International Scientific Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and
Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT) produced its first guidelines in 2005 and renewed them …

The purpose of this review is to name and describe the important factors of musculoskeletal
strain originating from pushing and pulling tasks such as cart handling that are commonly …

Many years of dedicated research into the etiology of idiopathic scoliosis have not led to one
unified theory. We propose that scoliosis is a mechanical, rotatory decompensation of the …

Purpose Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis occurs far more often in girls than in boys, and its
initiation and progression normally takes place around the adolescent growth spurt. Despite …

Although in vivo spinal loads have been previously measured, existing data are limited to
certain lumbar and thoracic levels. A detailed investigation of spinal loads would assist with …

Human lumbar motion segment is composed of various components with distinct
contributions to its gross mechanical response. By employing experimental and …

The intervertebral disc is a complex fibro-cartilaginous material, consisting of a pressurized
nucleus pulposus surrounded by the annulus fibrosus, which has an angle-ply structure …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Collateral blood flow is an important prognostic marker in
the acute stroke situation but approaches for assessment vary widely. Our aim was to …

Purpose Pelvic morphology dictates the alignment and biomechanics of the spine. Recent
observations in different types of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis indicate that individual …

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Intervertebral disk biochemical composition could be
accessed in vivo by T1ρ and T2 relaxometry. We found no studies in the literature comparing …