Advances in Theoretical & Computational Physics(ATCP)

University of Kinshasa, Polytechnic Faculty, Department of Mechanical Engineering, at Kinshasa, Democratic, Republic of the Congo

Publications

• Research Article   
  Modeling of the Cervical Spine as a System with Several Degrees of Freedom Subjected to a Non-Periodic Excitation Force
  Author(s): George Meya Kiala*, Fabrice Bosikawa Mossi, Vertomene Sumuna Temo, Betty Miangindula Mabenza, Honore Nkakudulu Bikuku, Phyton Kabeya Tshibamba, Louise Kikontwe Kalabo, Patient Ngereza Kibimbi1 and Jean Mari Mbuyi Muamba
  
  Background and Rationale: Previous cervical traction studies have investigated the impact of traction force intensity and duration of traction force on outcomes of cervical traction therapy. Objective: The present study aims to demonstrate the impact of the intensity of the traction force and the time of the rise of this force on the measurement of separation during cervical spine traction. Method: the human cervical spine was modeled as a system with eight degrees of freedom, an undamped system sub- jected, first of all, to a force of rectangular impulse then to a force of progressive intensity (sloping). The equations of motion describing this model were written and then solved using modal analysis. The intensity of the traction force and the time rise of the force were gradually modified in order to verify their.. Read More»
  

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