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Effect of intervertebral translational flexibilities on estimations of trunk muscle forces, kinematics, loads, and stability

Farshid GhezelbashDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Azadi Avenue, Tehran11155-9567, IranView further author information
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Navid ArjmandDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Azadi Avenue, Tehran11155-9567, IranCorrespondence[email protected]
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Aboulfazl Shirazi-AdlDivision of Applied Mechanics, Department of Mechanical Engineering, École Polytechnique, C.P. 6079, Succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, Québec, CanadaH3C 3A7View further author information
Pages 1760-1767 | Received 25 May 2014, Accepted 01 Sep 2014, Published online: 17 Sep 2014

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Farshid Ghezelbash, Ali Shahvarpour, Christian Larivière & Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl. (2022) Evaluating stability of human spine in static tasks: a combined in vivo-computational study. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 25:10, pages 1156-1168.
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Amir Hossein Eskandari, Farshid Ghezelbash, Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl, Denis Gagnon, Hakim Mecheri & Christian Larivière. (2023) Validation of an EMG submaximal method to calibrate a novel dynamic EMG-driven musculoskeletal model of the trunk: Effects on model estimates. Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology 68, pages 102728.
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Jacob J. Banks, Brian R. Umberger & Graham E. Caldwell. (2022) EMG optimization in OpenSim: A model for estimating lower back kinetics in gait. Medical Engineering & Physics 103, pages 103790.
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Mahdi Ebrahimkhani, Navid Arjmand & Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl. (2021) Biomechanical effects of lumbar fusion surgery on adjacent segments using musculoskeletal models of the intact, degenerated and fused spine. Scientific Reports 11:1.
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Robin Remus, Andreas Lipphaus, Marc Neumann & Beate Bender. (2021) Calibration and validation of a novel hybrid model of the lumbosacral spine in ArtiSynth–The passive structures. PLOS ONE 16:4, pages e0250456.
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M.A. Rajaee, N. Arjmand & A. Shirazi-Adl. (2021) A novel coupled musculoskeletal finite element model of the spine – Critical evaluation of trunk models in some tasks. Journal of Biomechanics 119, pages 110331.
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Erica Beaucage-Gauvreau, Scott C. E. Brandon, William S. P. Robertson, Robert Fraser, Brian J. C. Freeman, Ryan B. Graham, Dominic Thewlis & Claire F. Jones. (2020) Lumbar spine loads are reduced for activities of daily living when using a braced arm-to-thigh technique. European Spine Journal 30:4, pages 1035-1042.
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Farshid Ghezelbash, Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl, André Plamondon & Navid Arjmand. (2020) Comparison of different lifting analysis tools in estimating lower spinal loads – Evaluation of NIOSH criterion. Journal of Biomechanics 112, pages 110024.
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Alireza Sharifzadeh-Kermani, Navid Arjmand, Gholamreza Vossoughi, Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl, Avinash G. Patwardhan, Mohamad Parnianpour & Kinda Khalaf. (2020) Estimation of Trunk Muscle Forces Using a Bio-Inspired Control Strategy Implemented in a Neuro-Osteo-Ligamentous Finite Element Model of the Lumbar Spine. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 8.
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Ryan M. Byrne, Ameet K. Aiyangar & Xudong Zhang. (2020) Sensitivity of musculoskeletal model-based lumbar spinal loading estimates to type of kinematic input and passive stiffness properties. Journal of Biomechanics 102, pages 109659.
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F. Ghezelbash, A. Shirazi-Adl, Z. El Ouaaid, A. Plamondon & N. Arjmand. (2020) Subject-specific regression equations to estimate lower spinal loads during symmetric and asymmetric static lifting. Journal of Biomechanics 102, pages 109550.
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Derek P. Zwambag & Stephen H.M. Brown. (2020) Experimental validation of a novel spine model demonstrates the large contribution of passive muscle to the flexion relaxation phenomenon. Journal of Biomechanics 102, pages 109431.
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Erica Beaucage-Gauvreau, Scott C.E. Brandon, William S.P. Robertson, Robert Fraser, Brian J.C. Freeman, Ryan B. Graham, Dominic Thewlis & Claire F. Jones. (2020) A braced arm-to-thigh (BATT) lifting technique reduces lumbar spine loads in healthy and low back pain participants. Journal of Biomechanics 100, pages 109584.
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Won Man Park, Young Joon Kim, Shaobai Wang, Yoon Hyuk Kim & Guoan Li. (2020) Investigation of lumbar spine biomechanics using global convergence optimization and constant loading path methods. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering 17:4, pages 2970-2983.
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Zeinab Kamal & Gholamreza Rouhi. (2019) Significance of spine stability criteria on trunk muscle forces following unilateral muscle weakening: A comparison between kinematics-driven and stability-based kinematics-driven musculoskeletal models. Medical Engineering & Physics 73, pages 51-63.
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F. Ghezelbash, A.H. Eskandari, A. Shirazi-Adl, N. Arjmand, Z. El-Ouaaid & A. Plamondon. (2018) Effects of motion segment simulation and joint positioning on spinal loads in trunk musculoskeletal models. Journal of Biomechanics 70, pages 149-156.
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F. Azari, N. Arjmand, A. Shirazi-Adl & T. Rahimi-Moghaddam. (2018) A combined passive and active musculoskeletal model study to estimate L4-L5 load sharing. Journal of Biomechanics 70, pages 157-165.
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Farshid Ghezelbash, Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl, André Plamondon, Navid Arjmand & Mohamad Parnianpour. (2017) Obesity and Obesity Shape Markedly Influence Spine Biomechanics: A Subject-Specific Risk Assessment Model. Annals of Biomedical Engineering 45:10, pages 2373-2382.
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Rizwan Arshad, Thomas Zander, Maxim Bashkuev & Hendrik Schmidt. (2017) Influence of spinal disc translational stiffness on the lumbar spinal loads, ligament forces and trunk muscle forces during upper body inclination. Medical Engineering & Physics 46, pages 54-62.
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Tito Bassani, Elena Stucovitz, Zhihui Qian, Matteo Briguglio & Fabio Galbusera. (2017) Validation of the AnyBody full body musculoskeletal model in computing lumbar spine loads at L4L5 level. Journal of Biomechanics 58, pages 89-96.
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F. Ghezelbash, A. Shirazi-Adl, N. Arjmand, Z. El-Ouaaid & A. Plamondon. (2016) Subject-specific biomechanics of trunk: musculoskeletal scaling, internal loads and intradiscal pressure estimation. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology 15:6, pages 1699-1712.
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F. Ghezelbash, A. Shirazi-Adl, N. Arjmand, Z. El-Ouaaid, A. Plamondon & J.R. Meakin. (2016) Effects of sex, age, body height and body weight on spinal loads: Sensitivity analyses in a subject-specific trunk musculoskeletal model. Journal of Biomechanics 49:14, pages 3492-3501.
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Dominika Ignasiak, Stephen J. Ferguson & Navid Arjmand. (2016) A rigid thorax assumption affects model loading predictions at the upper but not lower lumbar levels. Journal of Biomechanics 49:13, pages 3074-3078.
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Jaejin Hwang, Jonathan S. Dufour, Gregory G. Knapik, Thomas M. Best, Safdar N. Khan, Ehud Mendel & William S. Marras. (2016) Prediction of magnetic resonance imaging-derived trunk muscle geometry with application to spine biomechanical modeling. Clinical Biomechanics 37, pages 60-64.
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Marcel Dreischarf, Aboulfazl Shirazi-Adl, Navid Arjmand, Antonius Rohlmann & Hendrik Schmidt. (2016) Estimation of loads on human lumbar spine: A review of in vivo and computational model studies. Journal of Biomechanics 49:6, pages 833-845.
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