Neuromuscular dysfunction elicited by cyclic lumbar flexion

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 348-358

  Claude, Lakiesha N ^a,b   Solomonow, Moshe ^a   Zhou, Bing He ^a   Baratta, Richard V ^a   Zhu, Meng Ping ^a  

^a Bioengineering Laboratory   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Creep; Cyclic; Disorder; Electromyography (EMG); Ligaments; Muscles; Reflex; Spine

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; IN VIVO STUDY; INFLAMMATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; JOINT CAPSULE; LIGAMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MULTIFIDUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE SPASM; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; WORKLOAD;

ANIMALS; CATS; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; ELASTICITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; LIGAMENTS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASES; SPASM; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0037372502     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10318     Document Type: Article

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