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Research Article

An open-source musculoskeletal model of the lumbar spine and lower limbs: a validation for movements of the lumbar spine

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Pages 1310-1325 | Received 30 Mar 2020, Accepted 02 Feb 2021, Published online: 27 Feb 2021

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