Browsing Health (Faculty of) by Author "Barrett, Jeffery"
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A Biomechanical-Biochemical Hypothesis for the Role of Collagen in Injury
Barrett, Jeffery (University of Waterloo, 2022-07-25)Low back pain affects 80% of the population at some point in their lives and is the most common musculoskeletal complaint for workplace injuries. Further, it presents as episodic, with sufferers typically experiencing ... -
An EMG-Driven Cervical Spine Model for the Investigation of Joint Kinetics: With Application to a Helicopter Pilot Population
Barrett, Jeffery (University of Waterloo, 2016-09-16)As the workforce has been shifting from manufacturing to office work, reports of neck pain have been on the rise. Unfortunately, the mechanism for the development of chronic neck pain still remains disputed. Most current ... -
A procedure for determining parameters of a simplified ligament model
Barrett, Jeffery; Callaghan, Jack P. (Elsevier, 2017-11-03)A previous mathematical model of ligament force-generation treated their behavior as a population of collagen fibres arranged in parallel. When damage was ignored in this model, an expression for ligament force in terms ...