buttock and leg pain associated with low back pain. These symptoms are exacerbated by walking and relieved by flexion of the spine, such as is achieved by leaning on a shopping cart. The leg pain ...

Many non-surgical treatments for low back disorders are based on the theoretical effects of either flexion or extension on disc behavior. Distraction manipulation, a treatment method commonly used by ...

Abstract: A custom-designed multi-axis spine machine was used to test cadaveric three-vertebra two-disc motion segments until failure, 13 in combined flexion-anterior shear and six in flexion only ...

and 72.7 strain/ sec. The results show that the compressive stiffness of lumbar intervertebral discs is dependent on the loading rate. There was no significant correlation (p > 0.05) between ...