The clinical biomechanics award paper 1993 Posture and the compressive strength of the lumbar spine

Disc Pressure Measurements

1981 • 652 citations

Mechanism of Facet Load Transmission as a Hypothesis for Low-Back Pain

1984 • 486 citations

An epidemiologic study of lifting and twisting on the job and risk for acute prolapsed lumbar intervertebral disc

1984 • 450 citations

Prolapsed intervertebral disc. A hyperflexion injury 1981 Volvo Award in Basic Science.

1982 • 402 citations

Disc space narrowing and the lumbar facet joints

1984 • 394 citations

Prolapsed Intervertebral Disc

1982 • 387 citations

The Resistance to Flexion of the Lumbar Intervertebral Joint

1980 • 384 citations

The effect of posture on the role of the apophysial joints in resisting intervertebral compressive forces

1980 • 383 citations

Tensile Properties of the Human Lumbar Annulus Fibrosus

1967 • 383 citations

Internal Intervertebral Disc Mechanics as Revealed by Stress Profilometry

1992 • 358 citations

Gradual Disc Prolapse

1985 • 340 citations

Biomechanical time‐tolerance of fresh cadaveric human spine specimens

1985 • 286 citations

Mechanical Properties of Human Lumbar Spine Motion Segments—Part I: Responses in Flexion, Extension, Lateral Bending, and Torsion

1979 • 267 citations

Circadian Variation in Stature and the Effects of Spinal Loading

1985 • 248 citations

Mechanism of Disc Rupture

1991 • 245 citations

Trunk Muscle and Lumbar Ligament Contributions to Dynamic Lifts with Varying Degrees of Trunk Flexion

1991 • 244 citations

Diurnal Variations in the Stresses on the Lumbar Spine

1987 • 240 citations

The Effect of Posture on the Fluid Content of Lumbar Intervertebral Discs

1983 • 240 citations

Effects of an anatomically detailed erector spinae model on disc compression and shear

1987 • 193 citations

The relationship between EMG activity and extensor moment generation in the erector spinae muscles during bending and lifting activities

1993 • 191 citations

Lumbar disc pressure and myoelectric back muscle activity during sitting. I. Studies on an experimental chair.

1974 • 190 citations

The effect of posture on the lumbar spine

1985 • 188 citations

Tensile properties of the annulus fibrosus

1993 • 176 citations

Prediction of the compressive strength of human lumbar vertebrae

1989 • 170 citations

Can the Lumbar Spine Be Crushed in Heavy Lifting?

1982 • 166 citations

The Influence of Spinal Movements on the Lumbar Intradiscal Pressure and on the Tensile Stresses in the Annulus Fibrosus

1963 • 164 citations

Strain in Fibers of a Lumbar Disc

1989 • 158 citations

A technique for quantifying the bending moment acting on the lumbar spine in vivo

1991 • 157 citations

The Optimum Spine

1986 • 147 citations

Large compressive preloads decrease lumbar motion segment flexibility

1991 • 143 citations

The Lumbar Spine in Backward Bending

1988 • 116 citations

Finite-Element Evaluation of Contact Loads on Facets of an L2-L3 Lumbar Segment in Complex Loads

1991 • 112 citations

Measurement of the Distribution of Axial Stress on the End-Plate of the Vertebral Body

1981 • 112 citations

The Relation Between Bone Mineral Content, Experimental Compression Fractures, and Disc Degeneration in Lumbar Vertebrae

1981 • 111 citations

The Physiological Oscillation of the Length of the Body

1935 • 103 citations

Dynamic compressive properties of human lumbar intervertebral joints: A comparison between fresh and thawed specimens

1988 • 101 citations

1990 Volvo Award in Experimental Studies: The Dependence of Intervertebral Disc Mechanical Properties on Physiologic Conditions

1990 • 101 citations

Mechanical properties of lumbar spine motion segments under large loads

1986 • 96 citations

MOVEMENTS OF THE THORACIC AND LUMBAR SPINE WHEN LIFTING: A CHRONO-CYCLOPHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY.

1965 • 95 citations

A biomechanical evaluation of five lifting techniques

1986 • 93 citations

Comparison Between Fluid Content and Swelling Pressure Profiles of Discs Removed at Surgery and Those Taken Postmortem

1992 • 89 citations

Body Height Change During Upright and Recumbent Posture

1990 • 83 citations

Mineral content and strength of lumbar vertebrae A cadaver study

1989 • 61 citations

LUMBAR INTRADISCAL PRESSURE

1960 • 59 citations

In vivo creep behavior of the normal and degenerated porcine intervertebral disk: a preliminary report.

1988 • 55 citations

Age changes in lumbar intervertebral discs.

1970 • 39 citations

Temperature dependence of the tensile properties of interspinous ligaments of sheep

1986 • 38 citations

Ultimate strength of the lumbar spine in flexion—An in vitro study

1990 • 37 citations

1990 Volvo Award in Experimental Studies

1990 • 27 citations

EXPERIMENTAL RUPTURES OF INTERVERTEBRAL DISCS IN RATSʼ TAILS

1952 • 21 citations