Measurement of lumbar multifidus muscle contraction with rehabilitative ultrasound imaging

Manual Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-166

  Kiesel, Kyle B ^a   Uhl, Tim L ^a   Underwood, Frank B ^b   Rodd, Donald W ^b   Nitz, Arthur J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyography; Rehabilitation; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; BODY POSTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGING; MALE; MULTIFIDUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PROBABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 34247368964     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2006.06.011     Document Type: Article

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