Effects of a three-month active rehabilitation program on psychomotor performance of lower limbs in subjects with low back pain: A controlled study with a nine-month follow-up

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 87, Issue 3 PART 1, 1998, Pages 739-753

  Kuukkanen, Tiina ^a   Mälkiä, Esko ^b  

^a School of Health and Social Care   (Finland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; LEG; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; SELF CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; EXERCISE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEG; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MOVEMENT; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SELF CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032253354     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1998.87.3.739     Document Type: Article

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