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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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Autores principales: Wagner, Heiko, Liebetrau, Anne, Schinowski, David, Wulf, Thomas, de Lussanet, Marc HE
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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