Torso muscle EMG profile differences between patients of back pain and control

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 103-109

  Kumar, Shrawan ^a   Prasad, Narsimha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic pain; Classification; Diagnosis; EMG; Identification; Low back pain

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINIS; BACK PAIN; CHRONIC LOW BACK PAIN; CHRONIC PAIN; CONDUCTION VELOCITY; CONTROL SUBJECT; DISCRIMINATE ANALYSIS; ELECTROMYOGRAM; LOW BACK PAIN; MAXIMAL VOLUNTARY CONTRACTIONS; MAXIMUM VOLUNTARY CONTRACTION; MEDIAN FREQUENCY; NORMAL CONTROLS; PAIN THRESHOLD; RADICULOPATHY; SUBJECTIVE TESTS; SURFACE ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; TOTAL POWER;

FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY BANDS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MUSCLE; WAVELET ANALYSIS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION;

CONTROL SURFACES;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRUNK;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; BACK; BACK PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL EXERTION;

EID: 73749084703     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2009.10.013     Document Type: Article

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