Managing chronic nonspecific low back pain with a sensorimotor retraining approach: Exploratory multiple-baseline study of 3 participants

Physical Therapy

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 535-546

  Wand, Benedict M ^a   O'Connell, Neil E ^b   di Pietro, Flavia ^c   Bulsara, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; SENSORY FEEDBACK;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEEDBACK, SENSORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES;

EID: 79958015749     PISSN: 00319023     EISSN: 15386724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2522/ptj.20100150     Document Type: Article

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