Regional morphology of the transversus abdominis and obliquus internus and externus abdominis muscles

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 233-241

  Urquhart, Donna M ^a,d   Barker, Priscilla J ^a   Hodges, Paul W ^b,c   Story, Ian H ^a   Briggs, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b Sch of Biotech and Biomol Sci   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abdominal muscles; Anatomy; Obliquus externus abdominis; Obliquus internus abdominis; Regional morphology; Spinal control; Transversus abdominis

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BONE; FUNCTIONS; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PROSTHETICS;

LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; REGIONAL ANATOMY; REGIONAL MORPHOLOGY; TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINAL MUSCLES;

MUSCLE;

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNUS ABDOMINIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE LENGTH; OBLIQUE INTERNUS; ORIENTATION; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINIS;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; CADAVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 13844266418     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2004.11.007     Document Type: Article

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