Reproducibility of lumbar paraspinal surface electromyogram power spectra

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 317-321

  Oliver, C W ^a   Tillotson, K M ^b   Jones, A P C ^a   Royal, R A ^a   Greenough, C G ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b South Cleveland Hospital ^*

Author keywords

Fitness testing; Low back pain; Reproducibility; Spectral analysis; Spectral halfwidth; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CALCULATIONS; CORRELATION METHODS; ELECTRODES; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCIES; MUSCLE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR ERECTOR SPINAE MUSCLES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECTRAL HALFWIDTH;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME;

EID: 0030249027     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0268-0033(96)00020-4     Document Type: Article

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