Exercise capacity in non-specific chronic low back pain patients: A lean body mass-based Åstrand bicycle test; reliability, validity and feasibility

Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 282-289

  Hodselmans, Audy P ^a,b   Dijkstra, Pieter U ^b,c   Geertzen, Jan H B ^b,c   Van Der Schans, Cees P ^a  

^a HANZE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

strand test; Chronic low back pain; Exercise capacity; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; EXERCISE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; RELIABILITY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 50249188789     PISSN: 10530487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10926-008-9143-2     Document Type: Article

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