Electrical muscle stimulation for deep stabilizing muscles in abdominal wall

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2756-2759

  Coghlan, Simon ^a   Crowe, Louis ^a   McCarthyPersson, Ulrik ^a   Minogue, Conor ^b   Caulfield, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b Biomedical Research Ltd   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

ABDOMINIS; LOW BACK PAIN; MUSCLE STIMULATION; SUPERFICIAL MUSCLES; THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION;

MUSCLE;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL WALL; ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ABDOMEN; ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 61849120324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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