Abdominal muscle function in chronic low back pain patients: Measurement with real-time ultrasound scanning

Physiotherapy

Volumn 88, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 322-332

  Critchley, Duncan J ^a   Coutts, Fiona J ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Abdominal muscles; Low back pain; Transversus abdominis; Ultrasound scanning

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY POSITION; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INFERIOR OBLIQUE MUSCLE; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MUSCLE DISEASE; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE TRAINING; PARITY; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUPERIOR OBLIQUE MUSCLE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0036294674     PISSN: 00319406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9406(05)60745-6     Document Type: Article

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