Changes in excitability of corticomotor inputs to the trunk muscles during experimentally-induced acute low back pain

Neuroscience

Volumn 181, Issue , 2011, Pages 127-133

  Tsao, H ^a   Tucker, K J ^a   Hodges, P W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corticospinal excitability; Experimental pain; Low back pain; Motor cortex; Trunk muscles

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR ERECTOR SPINAE MUSCLE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; OBLIQUUS EXTERNUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; OBLIQUUS INTERNUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; REST; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSVERSUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; BACK; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953699610     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.02.033     Document Type: Article

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