Experimental Pelvic Pain Impairs the Performance During the Active Straight Leg Raise Test and Causes Excessive Muscle Stabilization

Clinical Journal of Pain

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 642-651

  Palsson, Thorvaldur S ^a   Hirata, Rogerio P ^a   Graven Nielsen, Thomas ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

active straight leg raise (ASLR); hyperalgesia; lumbopelvic pain; muscle stabilization

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACTIVE STRAIGHT LEG RAISE TEST; ADULT; ARTICLE; BICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; BIOMECHANICS; CALCANEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL PAIN; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERALGESIA; JOINT STABILITY; KINEMATICS; LATISSIMUS DORSI MUSCLE; LEG; LIKERT SCALE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION; NOCICEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN INTENSITY; PELVIC PAIN; PELVIS; PRESSURE PAIN THRESHOLD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SACROILIAC JOINT; THIGH; VERTEBRA SPINOUS PROCESS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; EXERCISE TEST; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; RANDOMIZATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRUNK; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN THRESHOLD; PELVIC PAIN; PRESSURE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SACROILIAC JOINT; SALINE SOLUTION, HYPERTONIC; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TORSO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84932194204     PISSN: 07498047     EISSN: 15365409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000139     Document Type: Article

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