Activation of paraspinal and abdominal muscles during manually assisted and nonassisted therapeutic exercise

American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 326-335

  Arokoski, Jari P A ^a,b,c   Valta, Taru ^a   Kankaanpää, Markku ^a   Airaksinen, Olavi ^a  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Abdominal Muscles; Exercise; Paraspinal Muscles; Surface Electromyography

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FUNCTIONAL NEURAL STIMULATION; PHYSICAL THERAPY;

THERAPEUTICS;

MUSCLE;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; BACK; BODY MASS INDEX; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS;

EID: 0036120191     PISSN: 08949115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002060-200205000-00002     Document Type: Article

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