Discriminative and reliability analyses of ultrasound measurement of abdominal muscles recruitment

Manual Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 463-469

  Ferreira, Paulo H ^a   Ferreira, Manuela L ^b   Nascimento, Dafne P ^a,b   Pinto, Rafael Z ^b   Franco, Marcia R ^b   Hodges, Paul W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Low back pain; Rehabilitative ultrasound imaging; Transversus abdominis

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL MUSCULATURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; LOW BACK PAIN; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; TASK PERFORMANCE; THICKNESS;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; RECRUITMENT, NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 80052031739     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: 15322769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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