Abdominal muscle recruitment during a range of voluntary exercises

Manual Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 144-153

  Urquhart, Donna M ^a,b   Hodges, Paul W ^c,d   Allen, Trevor J ^b   Story, Ian H ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abdominal muscles; Exercises; Low back pain; Transversus abdominis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; SPINE MOBILITY; SUPINE POSITION; TILTING; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; PELVIC FLOOR; PILOT PROJECTS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SUPINE POSITION;

EID: 19444367937     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2004.08.011     Document Type: Article

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