Relationship Between Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar Spinal Alignments in Automotive Seated Posture
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2019

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spinal alignments in one automotive occupant seated posture. An image data-set of the spinal column in the automotive seated posture, previously acquired by an upright open magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, was re-analyzed in this study. Spinal alignments were presented by the geometrical centers of the vertebral bodies extracted from the image data. Cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spinal alignments were analyzed separately with multidimensional scaling (MDS). Based on distribution maps of cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spinal alignments created by MDS, representative spinal alignment patterns of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spines and the relationship between cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spinal alignments were investigated. As a result, this study found a correlation between cervical and thoracic spinal alignments in an automotive occupant seated posture. According to representative spinal alignment patterns illustrated by the distribution map of spinal alignments, subjects who had kyphotic cervical spinal alignment tended to have less kyphotic thoracic spinal alignment, while subjects who had lordotic cervical spinal alignment tended to have more kyphotic thoracic spinal alignment. For lumbar spinal alignments, no prominent relationship was found between cervical and thoracic spinal alignment in the seated condition of this study.

Författare

Fusako Sato Sakayachi

Chalmers, Mekanik och maritima vetenskaper, Fordonssäkerhet

Yusuke Miyazaki

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Shigehiro Morikawa

Shiga University of Medical Science

Antonio Ferreiro Perez

Fundación de Investigación HM Hospitales

Sylvia Schick

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

Kunio Yamazaki

Japan Automobile Research Institute

Karin Brolin

Personskadeprevention

Mats Svensson

Personskadeprevention

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

0148-0731 (ISSN) 1528-8951 (eISSN)

Vol. 141 12 121006

Ämneskategorier

Språkteknologi (språkvetenskaplig databehandling)

Radiologi och bildbehandling

Medicinsk bildbehandling

DOI

10.1115/1.4045111

PubMed

31596923

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2020-11-13