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ArticleJournal of rehabilitation and assistive technologies engineering

A novel distractive and mobility-enabling lumbar spinal orthosis.

Denis J DiAngelo, Daniel C Hillyard

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Article in Journal of rehabilitation and assistive technologies engineering. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.5field-weighted citation impact, top 33% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Denis J DiAngeloDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA.
Daniel C HillyardDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA.
University of Tennessee Health Science Center · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeLumbar spinal orthoses are often used as non-surgical treatment and serve to support the spine and alleviate low back pain. More recently, dynamic orthoses claiming to decompress the spine have been introduced. A previously developed prototype of dynamic mobility orthosis (DMO1) was designed that provided a distractive load across the lumbar spine but required higher sagittal bending moments and was unable to maintain spinal off-loading throughout extended ranges of movement. The objective was to design a new orthosis (DMO2) that reduced bending moment buildup and sustained spinal off-loading throughout daily living ranges of flexion and extension movement.

methodsA mechanical analog upper torso model and programmable robotic testing platform were used to design features of DMO2: a mobility-enabling component and a distractive force component. Test conditions for DMO2 were 300

resultsThe DMO2 prototype improved spinal off-loading capacity from 172

conclusionsA novel dynamic spinal orthosis was designed that maintained spinal off-loading throughout extended ranges of flexion and extension movement without buildup of adverse bending moments.

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back bracebiomechanical testinglow back painLumbar spinal orthosis

Identifiers

PMID31186910
PMCPMC6453089
OpenAlexW2345115058

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