Role of muscles in lumbar spine stabilit
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Mack Gardner-Morse; Ian A. F. Stokes; Jeffrey P. Laible
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Article
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1995
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Elsevier Science
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English
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## Abstract Many problems of the lumbar spine that cause pain are attributed to instability. The ligamentous spine (without muscles) is unstable at very low compressive loads. This study examined the hypothesis that instability of the lumbar spine is prevented under normal circumstances by the stif