Evidence of lumbar multifidus muscle wasting ipsilateral to symptoms in patients with acute/subacute low back pain

Spine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 165-172

  Hides, J A ^a   Saide, M ^a   Stokes, M J ^b   Jull, G A ^b   Cooper, D H ^c  

^a Mater Hospital   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c Private Practice in Diagnostic Ultrasound ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Low beck pain; Lumbai multifidus; Muscle size; Real time ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE SPASM; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATROPHY; BACK PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MUSCLES; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0028140407     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-199401001-00009     Document Type: Article

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