Locating Instability in the Lumbar Spine: Characterizing the Eigenvector

Overloading of the back can cause instability such that buttressing the instability is a primary objective of many of the leading edge therapeutic approaches. However, a challenge lies in determining the location of the instability or the least stable vertebral joint. A mathematical analysis, ba...

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Main Author: Howarth, Samuel
Language:en
Published: University of Waterloo 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10012/2808