The study is focused on three cervical spine ligaments that stabilize the spine and protect the spinal cord – ALL, PLL, LF. Fresh cervical spine specimens were teste d in physiological conditions under tensile loading. An increase trend in failure load, failure stress, stiffness and modulus was observed, but proved not to be significant for all ligament types. The study results indicate the importance of carefully applying the existing experimental data from the literature in numerical modelling.
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