Abdominal and pelvic floor muscle function in women with and without long lasting pelvic girdle pain

Manual Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 287-296

  Stuge, Britt ^a   Mørkved, Siv ^b   Haug Dahl, Haldis ^b   Vøllestad, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Deep abdominals; Pelvic floor; Postpartum pelvic girdle pain; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMAGING; LEG MOVEMENT; LOADING TEST; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PALPATION; PELVIC GIRDLE; PELVIS FLOOR; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VAGINA; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PAIN; PELVIC PAIN; POSTPARTUM PERIOD;

EID: 33750349928     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2005.07.003     Document Type: Article

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