Towards a measurement of paraspinal soft tissue mobility: Development of a method and preliminary results

Journal of Manual and Manipulative Therapy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 12-19

  Everaert, Dirk G M ^a   Stappaerts, Karel H ^b   Van Leemputte, Mark F M ^b   Oostendorp, Rob A B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Back; Measurement; Soft Tissue Mobility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK; BACK MUSCLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVICE; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; THORACIC SPINE;

EID: 0030978211     PISSN: 10669817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/jmt.1997.5.1.12     Document Type: Article

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