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Research Information

The Activator Adjusting Instrument - Biomechanical

Topics:

  1. The Force of The Activator® Adjusting Instrument
  2. Accuracy of Piezoelectric Accelerometers Measuring Displacement of a Spinal Adjusting Instrument.
  3. Mechanical Force, Manually Assisted, Short Lever Chiropractic Adjustment.
  4. Skin Accelerometer Displacement and Relative Bone Movement of Adjacent Vertebrae in Response to Chiropractic Percussion Thrusts.
  5. Biomechanical Characterization (Fingerprinting) Of Five Novel Methods Of Cervical Spine Manipulation
  6. Measurement and Analysis of the In Vivo Posteroanterior Impulse Response of the Human Thoracolumbar Spine: A Feasibility Study.
  7. Evaluating Mechanical Force Manually Assisted Short Lever Adjusting Using An Anthropomorphic Model
  8. Evaluating Mechanical Force Manually Assisted Short Lever Adjusting Using An Anthropomorphic Model
  9. Measurement And Analysis Of Interspinous Kinematics
  10. Theory Of Small Vertebral Motions: An Analytical Model Compared To Data
  11. Oscillations Of The Vertebrae In Spinal Manipulative Therapy
  12. Validation Of The Force And Frequency Characteristics Of The Activator Adjusting Instrument: Effectiveness As A Mechanical Impedance Measurement Tool
  13. In Vivo Transient Vibration Assessment Of The Normal Human Thoracolumbar Spine
  14. The Effective Forces Transmitted By High-Speed, Low-Amplitude Thoracic Manipulation
  15. Engineering-In Vivo Transient Vibration Analysis of the Normal Human Spine.
  16. Dynamic Response Of The Human Lumbar Spine: A 5 DOF Lumped Parameter Time And Frequency Domain Model
  17. Muscular And Mechanical Behavior Of The Lumbar Spine In Response To Dynamic Posteroanterior Forces
  18. The mechanics of spinal manipulation
  19. Movements of vertebrae during manipulative thrusts to unembalmed human cadavers
  20. Movements of vertebrae during manipulative thrusts to unembalmed human cadavers
  21. The diagnostic performance of vertebral displacement measurements derived from ultrasonic indentation in an in vivo model of degenerative disc disease
  22. Preliminary study of the effects of a placebo chiropractic treatment with sham adjustments
  23. The effects of spinal manipulation on the intensity of emotional arousal in phobic subjects exposed to a threat stimulus: a randomized, controlled, double-blind clinical trial
  24. Variability of Force Magnitude and Force Duration in Manual and Instrument-Based Manipulation Techniques
  25. Three-Dimensional Vertebral Motions Produced by Mechanical Force Spinal Manipulation
  26. Dependence of the Delivered Force on the Force Setting on the Activator Adjusting Instrument
  27. A Hypothesis of Chronic Back Pain: Ligament Subfailure Injuries Lead to Muscle Control Dysfunction