The use of magnetic resonance imaging to evaluate lumbar muscle activity during trunk extension exercise at varying intensities

Spine

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2005, Pages 2556-2563

  Mayer, John M ^a,c   Graves, James E ^a   Clark, Brian C ^a   Formikell, Mary ^b   Ploutz Snyder, Lori L ^a,b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

^c US Spine & Sport Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Lumbar muscles; Magnetic resonance imaging; Resistance exercise

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADULT; BACK; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL;

EID: 27944465296     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000186321.24370.4b     Document Type: Article

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