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List of works by Michael A Adams

Annulus fissures are mechanically and chemically conducive to the ingrowth of nerves and blood vessels.

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Biomechanics of vertebral compression fractures and clinical application.

scientific article published on 31 July 2011

Can compressive stress be measured experimentally within the annulus fibrosus of degenerated intervertebral discs?

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Cyclic loading can denature type II collagen in articular cartilage

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Development and validation of a new transducer for intradiscal pressure measurement

scientific article published on November 1, 1992

Discogenic origins of spinal instability

scientific article published on 01 December 2005

Dynamic forces acting on the lumbar spine during manual handling. Can they be estimated using electromyographic techniques alone?

scientific article published on 01 April 1999

Early enhanced exercise: damaging or beneficial to joints?

scientific article published on 01 July 2009

Experimental determination of stress distributions in articular cartilage before and after sustained loading

scientific article published on 01 February 1999

Healing of a painful intervertebral disc should not be confused with reversing disc degeneration: implications for physical therapies for discogenic back pain.

scientific article published on 23 August 2010

Increased chondrocyte apoptosis is associated with progression of osteoarthritis in spontaneous Guinea pig models of the disease.

scientific article published on 29 August 2013

Influence of lumbar and hip mobility on the bending stresses acting on the lumbar spine

scientific article published on 01 July 1993

Internal intervertebral disc mechanics as revealed by stress profilometry

scientific article published on January 1, 1992

Intervertebral Disc Degeneration Can Lead to “Stress-Shielding” of the Anterior Vertebral Body

scientific article published on 01 April 2004

Intervertebral Disc Degeneration Can Predispose to Anterior Vertebral Fractures in the Thoracolumbar Spine

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

Intervertebral disc decompression following endplate damage: implications for disc degeneration depend on spinal level and age.

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Intervertebral disc degeneration: evidence for two distinct phenotypes.

scientific article published on 12 August 2012

Intervertebral discs influence vertebral body bone.

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

Is activation of the back muscles impaired by creep or muscle fatigue?

scientific article published on 01 March 2010

Is kyphoplasty better than vertebroplasty in restoring normal mechanical function to an injured spine?

scientific article published on 11 December 2009

Mechanical efficacy of vertebroplasty: influence of cement type, BMD, fracture severity, and disc degeneration

scientific article published on 16 January 2007

Mechanical function of vertebral body osteophytes, as revealed by experiments on cadaveric spines

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Mechanical initiation of intervertebral disc degeneration

scientific article published on 01 July 2000

Neural arch load-bearing in old and degenerated spines

scientific article published on 01 February 2004

Outer annulus tears have less effect than endplate fracture on stress distributions inside intervertebral discs: relevance to disc degeneration

scientific article published on 07 September 2006

Personal risk factors for first-time low back pain

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Point of view

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Propagation of surface fissures in articular cartilage in response to cyclic loading in vitro

scientific article published on December 1, 2003

Psychological questionnaires: do "abnormal" scores precede or follow first-time low back pain?

scientific article published on 01 November 1996

Re: Spine stability: the six blind men and the elephant

scientific article published on 16 February 2007

Recent advances in lumbar spinal mechanics and their clinical significance

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Repetitive lifting tasks fatigue the back muscles and increase the bending moment acting on the lumbar spine

scientific article published on 01 August 1998

Strength of the cervical spine in compression and bending

scientific article published on 01 July 2007

Sudden and unexpected loading generates high forces on the lumbar spine

scientific article published on 01 April 2000

Tensile properties of the annulus fibrosus II. Ultimate tensile strength and fatigue life

scientific article published on 01 December 1993

Tensile properties of the annulus fibrosus. I. The contribution of fibre-matrix interactions to tensile stiffness and strength.

scientific article published in December 1993

The internal mechanical functioning of intervertebral discs and articular cartilage, and its relevance to matrix biology.

scientific article published on 05 July 2009

The internal mechanical properties of cervical intervertebral discs as revealed by stress profilometry.

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The role of Plantaris Longus in Achilles tendinopathy: a biomechanical study

scientific article published on 15 September 2010

Time-dependent changes in the lumbar spine's resistance to bending

scientific article published on 01 June 1996

Time-dependent compressive deformation of the ageing spine: relevance to spinal stenosis

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Vertebral deformity arising from an accelerated "creep" mechanism.

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Vertebral fracture and intervertebral discs

scientific article published on 01 June 2012

Vertebral fractures in the elderly may not always be "osteoporotic".

scientific article published on 31 March 2010

Vertebral fractures usually affect the cranial endplate because it is thinner and supported by less-dense trabecular bone

scientific article published on 11 November 2008

Vertebroplasty: only small cement volumes are required to normalize stress distributions on the vertebral bodies.

scientific article published on December 2009

When are intervertebral discs stronger than their adjacent vertebrae?

scientific article published in October 2007

When is a lifting movement too asymmetric to identify low-back loading by 2-D analysis?

scientific article published on 01 October 1998

Why do some intervertebral discs degenerate, when others (in the same spine) do not?

scientific article published on 19 April 2014