Reliability of electromyographic and torque measures during isometric axial rotation exertions of the trunk

Clinical Neurophysiology

Volumn 114, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2355-2361

  Ng, Joseph K F ^a,c   Parnianpour, Mohamad ^b   Kippers, Vaughan ^a   Richardson, Carolyn A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Abdominal muscles; Back muscles; Electromyography; Isometric contraction; Reliability; Spine

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL OBLIQUE MUSCLE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; ILIOCOSTALES LUMBORUM MUSCLE; INTERNAL OBLIQUE MUSCLE; JOINT FUNCTION; LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIFIDUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RELIABILITY; TORQUE; TRUNK ROTATION;

EID: 0345549546     PISSN: 13882457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-2457(03)00249-9     Document Type: Article

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