Diurnal variation in stature: Do those with chronic low-back pain differ from asymptomatic controls?

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 331-336

  Healey, Emma L ^a   Burden, Adrian M ^b   McEwan, Islay M ^b   Fowler, Neil E ^b  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Low back pain; Spinal loading; Spinal shrinkage; Stadiometry; Stature

Indexed keywords

LOW BACK PAIN; SPINAL LOADING; SPINAL SHRINKAGE; STADIOMETRY; STATURE;

LOADING; SHRINKAGE;

HEALTH;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY POSTURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; BODY HEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MOVEMENT; POSTURE; SPINE; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 79953276776     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2010.11.017     Document Type: Article

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