ISSLS prize winner: Smudging the motor brain in young adults with recurrent low back pain

Spine

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 1721-1727

  Tsao, Henry ^a   Danneels, Lieven A ^b   Hodges, Paul W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

low back pain; lumbar paraspinal muscles; motor control; motor cortex organization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEEP MULTIFIDUS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGISSIMUS ERECTOR SPINE; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MYOELECTRICITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AWARDS AND PRIZES; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; QUEENSLAND; RECURRENCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053376723     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0b013e31821c4267     Document Type: Article

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