A Spine Loading Model of Women in the Military

Abstract

The risk of low-back disorders (LBD) may be particularly great for women in the military, influencing training effectiveness, costs, and military readiness. The goal of this research is to quantify musculoskeletal loads on the spine of women performing military manual materials handling (MMH) tasks. This will permit assessment of LBD risk factors for military women, and the potential to evaluate tasks and training methods for female military personnel. Our efforts are progressing in general accordance with the proposal and timeline. Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) have been employed to measure the muscle cross-sectional areas, moment-arms in the coronal and sagittal plane, and muscle vector angles in both healthy females and males. Muscle force-velocity and length-strength relationships have been determined with biomechanical model performance determined, with a few more subjected needed to be collected to solidify the promising results.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADB242387

Entities

People

  • William S. Marras

Organizations

  • Ohio State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Army Personnel
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Experimental Design
  • Health Services
  • Information Science
  • Magnetic Resonance
  • Materials
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Personnel
  • Pain
  • Personnel Management
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Spine
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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