Individuals with non-specific low back pain in an active episode demonstrate temporally altered torque responses and direction-specific enhanced muscle activity following unexpected balance perturbations

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 221, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 413-426

  Jones, Stephanie L ^a,b   Hitt, Juvena R ^a   DeSarno, Michael J ^c   Henry, Sharon M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankle strategy; Automatic postural response; Hip strategy; Joint torque; Postural control; Surface electromyography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATIC POSTURAL RESPONSE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FORCE TRANSDUCER; HIP; HUMAN; JOINT; KINEMATICS; KNEE; LATENT PERIOD; LEG; LOW BACK PAIN; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION METHOD; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SPINDLE; NONSPECIFIC LOW BACK PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TORQUE; TRUNK;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR DISEASES; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTURAL BALANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866014783     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-012-3183-8     Document Type: Article

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