A musculoskeletal analyses study on lumbar spine has been accepted in the journal BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. The titel is: “A numerical study to determine the effect of ligament stiffness on kinematics of the lumbar spine during flexion”
The work shows the influence of passive stiffness on lumbar spine kinetics and kinematics. The work indicates that degeneration leads to a shift of lumbar loading.
Authors were: Michael Putzer, Stefan Auer, William Malpica, Franz Suess and Sebastian Dendorfer