Multifidus size and symmetry among chronic LBP and healthy asymptomatic subjects

Manual Therapy

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 43-49

  Hides, Julie ^a,b   Gilmore, Craig ^a   Stanton, Warren ^a,b   Bohlscheid, Emma ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MATER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronic low back pain (LBP); Manual examination; Multifidus; Physiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MANUAL EXAMINATION; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIFIDUS MUSCLE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

BACK; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY;

EID: 38649119136     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2006.07.017     Document Type: Article

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