Localised resistance selectively activates the semispinalis cervicis muscle in patients with neck pain

Manual Therapy

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 544-548

  Schomacher, Jochen ^a   Petzke, Frank ^b   Falla, Deborah ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

EMG; Exercise; Neck pain; Semispinalis cervicis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NECK PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMISPINALIS CERVICIS MUSCLE; SITTING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPLENIUS CAPITIS MUSCLE;

ADULT; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; NECK MUSCLES; NECK PAIN; PARASPINAL MUSCLES;

EID: 84867651185     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: 15322769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2012.05.012     Document Type: Article

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