Lumbar segmental rigidity: Can its identification with facet injections and stretching exercises be useful?

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1143-1150

  Mayer, Tom G ^a,d   Robinson, Richard ^c   Pegues, Pauline ^c   Kohles, Sheri ^c   Gatchel, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c PRIDE Research Foundation   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disability; Injections; Lumbar vertebrae; Outcome assessment; Pain; Range of motion, articular; Rehabilitation.

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; JOINT EXAMINATION; JOINT MOBILITY; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE STRETCHING; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033846770     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/apmr.2000.9170     Document Type: Article

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