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Biomechanical analysis and modeling of lumbar belt: Preliminary study.

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Low back pain is a major public health problem in European Countries. In France, about 50% of population is suffering of this pathology every year (Fassier 2011). Because of health care cost and sick leave (Fassier 2011; Leclerc et al. 2009), low back pain has both societal and economic adverse consequences. Many treatments are proposed. However no guideline is provided to physician. Treatment depends on patient, on low back pain type and evolution and also on physician knowledge and believes. Medical devices, as lumbar belt might be proposed to treat low back pain. Several clinical trials have shown their efficacy (Calmels et al. 2009). Nevertheless, both mechanical and physiological effects of lumbar belts remain unclear. In this study, the application of a lumbar belt on the trunk is simulated by a finite element model. It is often assumed that the pain comes from the toe of the intervertebral discs and is related only to the intradiscal pressure and the thoracolumbar posture. Beside, abdominal pressure is used by belt manufacturers as a marker of the lumbar belt efficiency, because a change in the abdominal pressure could bring a change in the thoracolumbar posture and consequently on the intradiscal pressure. That's why the goal of this study is to determine the mechanical effect of wearing lumbar belt: i) on abdominal pressure; ii) on thoracolumbar posture; iii) on intervertebral disc pressure.
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hal-00879662 , version 1 (06-02-2019)

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Rébecca Bonnaire, Jérôme Molimard, Paul Calmels, Reynald Convert. Biomechanical analysis and modeling of lumbar belt: Preliminary study.. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2013, 16 (Supplement 1), pp. 219-221. ⟨10.1080/10255842.2013.815880⟩. ⟨hal-00879662⟩
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