An investigation of the reproducibility of ultrasound measures of abdominal muscle activation in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain

European Spine Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1059-1065

  Costa, Leonardo Oliveira Pena ^a   Maher, Chris G ^a   Latimer, Jane ^a   Hodges, Paul W ^b   Shirley, Debra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abdominal muscles; Agreement; Reliability; Reproducibility; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOTOR CONTROL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS; THICKNESS; ULTRASOUND;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PLACEBOS; POSTURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 70349583530     PISSN: 09406719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00586-009-1018-5     Document Type: Article

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