Recruitment of the deep cervical flexor muscles during a postural-correction exercise performed in sitting

Manual Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-143

  Falla, Deborah ^a,b   O'Leary, Shaun ^a   Fagan, Amy ^a   Jull, Gwendolen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Exercise; Neck pain; Posture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; BODY POSTURE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXERCISE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK MUSCLE; NECK PAIN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NOSE; OROPHARYNX; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFLEX RECRUITMENT; SITTING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUCTION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECK PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTURE; PROBABILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247094201     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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