Efficacy of movement control exercises versus general exercises on recurrent sub-acute nonspecific low back pain in a sub-group of patients with movement control dysfunction. protocol of a randomized controlled trial

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lehtola, Vesa ^a   Luomajoki, Hannu ^b   Leinonen, Ville ^c   Gibbons, Sean ^d   Airaksinen, Olavi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^d SMARTERehab   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; GENERAL EXERCISE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOVEMENT CONTROL DYSFUNCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; ROLAND MORRIS DISABILITY QUESTIONNAIRE; SPECIFIC MOVEMENT CONTROL EXERCISE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVALESCENCE; DISABILITY; FINLAND; HOSPITALIZATION; KINESIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHRONIC PAIN; DISABILITY EVALUATION; EXERCISE THERAPY; FINLAND; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MOVEMENT; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RECURRENCE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859501713     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2474-13-55     Document Type: Article

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