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Spinal lordosis optimizes the requirements for a stable erect posture
BACKGROUND: Lordosis is the bending of the lumbar spine that gives the vertebral column of humans its characteristic ventrally convex curvature. Infants develop lordosis around the time when they acquire bipedal locomotion. Even macaques develop a lordosis when they are trained to walk bipedally. Th...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3349546/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22507595 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4682-9-13 |