Plinth padding confounds measures of posteroanterior spinal stiffness

Manual Therapy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 145-150

  Maher, C G ^a   Latimer, J ^a   Holland, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

EID: 0032868696     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/math.1999.0197     Document Type: Article

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