Response of lumbar paraspinal muscles spindles is greater to spinal manipulative loading compared with slower loading under length control

Spine Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 583-595

  Pickar, Joel G ^a,b   Sung, Paul S ^a,b   Kang, Yu Ming ^b   Ge, Weiqing ^a  

^a PALMER CENTER FOR CHIROPRACTIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

Chiropractic; Lumbar spine; Muscle spindle; Osteopathy; Paraspinal muscles; Spinal manipulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; BIOMECHANICS; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL ROOT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MECHANICAL STIMULATION; MUSCLE INNERVATION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NECK PAIN; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY STIMULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; VERTEBRA; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALS; CATS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MANIPULATION, CHIROPRACTIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE SPINDLES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONS, AFFERENT; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 34748889504     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2006.10.006     Document Type: Article

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