Low back pain patients demonstrate increased hip extensor muscle activity during standardized submaximal rotation efforts

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 26, 2006, Pages

  Pirouzi, Soraya ^a   Hides, Julie ^a   Richardson, Carolyn ^a   Darnell, Ross ^a   Toppenberg, Rowena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Back and hip extensor muscles; Electromyography; Low back pain; Trunk rotation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HAMSTRING; HIP; HUMAN; LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; LOW BACK PAIN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; TRUNK;

ADULT; BACK; BIOMECHANICS; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIP; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LOW BACK PAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ROTATION;

EID: 33845781512     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000250076.74366.9d     Document Type: Article

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