Lumbar segmental 'instability': Clinical presentation and specific stabilizing exercise management

Manual Therapy

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 2-12

  O'Sullivan, Peter B ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINE INSTABILITY; SPINE STABILIZATION;

EID: 0034143991     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/math.1999.0213     Document Type: Review

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