Use of muscle functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare cervical flexor activity between patients with whiplash-associated disorders and people who are healthy

Physical Therapy

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1157-1164

  Cagnie, Barbara ^a,b   Dolphens, Mieke ^b   Peeters, Ian ^b   Achten, Eric ^b   Cambier, Dirk ^b   Danneels, Lieven ^b  

^a RESEARCH FOUNDATION FLANDERS FWO   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NECK MUSCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHIPLASH INJURY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NECK MUSCLES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 77955456285     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20090351     Document Type: Article

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