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Stability of the human spine: a biomechanical study
Scholten, P.J.M. and Veldhuizen, A.G. and Grootenboer, H.J. (1988) Stability of the human spine: a biomechanical study. Clinical Biomechanics, 3 (1). pp. 27-33. ISSN 0268-0033
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| Abstract: | The influences of curvatures and of physical properties on the mechanical stability of the spine were analysed by means of a three-dimensional, geometrical, nonlinear biomechanical model. According to the model, the initial buckling load decreases with increasing lordotic and kyphotic curvatures. When the body weight is taken into account as a load distributed along the whole spine, the calculated initial buckling load is twice the value that it is in the case of a single concentrated load acting at the top of the spine. Applying the large deflection theory, no relation is found between the increased slenderness of a spine and a ‘buckled’ configuration of a scoliotic spine. |
| Item Type: | Article |
| Copyright: | © 1988 Elsevier Science |
| Link to this item: | http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/70290 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0268-0033(88)90121-0 |
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