Download or read book Back Function Testing and Paraspinal Muscle Magnetic Resonance Image Parameters Their Associations and Determinants written by Laura Gibbons and published by University of Jyvaskyla. This book was released on 1998 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiivistelmä.
Download or read book Paraspinal Muscle Morphology Composition and Asymmetries written by Maryse Fortin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background The lumbar paraspinal muscles are critical to provide spine stability, maintain proper posture and assist trunk movement. Although considerable attention has been focused on the association between variations in paraspinal muscle morphology and low back pain (LBP), their role in the development and progression of LBP remains unclear. Purpose The purpose of this doctoral work was to identify potential determinants of paraspinal muscle asymmetry, characterize the natural progression of age-related changes in paraspinal muscle over a 15-year period and examine their association with LBP problems, and determine whether paraspinal muscle size, composition and asymmetry are risk indicators for the development of LBP. Materials and Methods Subjects were selected from the pre-existing database of the Twin Spine Study. Data were collected through a structured interview, physical examination and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Measurement of the multifidus and erector spinae muscle cross-sectional area (CSA), functional CSA (FCSA) (e.g. fat-free mass) and degree of asymmetry in size and composition was obtained from T2- weighted axial images for 202 men at baseline and 99 men at 15-year follow-up. A novel and highly reliable thresholding technique, allowing for the separation of muscle and fat tissue, was developed to perform quantitative measurements of paraspinal muscle composition. Results and Conclusions Of the factors investigated, the few that were significantly associated with paraspinal muscle asymmetry in cross-sectional analyses included handedness, disc height narrowing, the amount of physical activity performed at work and leisure and familial aggregation. Yet, with the exception of handedness and familial aggregation, the associations were generally inconsistent across muscles and spinal levels and explained little of the variance in paraspinal muscle asymmetry. Over the 15-year follow-up period, the multifidus and erector spinae showed similar morphological changes including a decrease in size and an increase in fatty infiltration and asymmetry. However, no significant correlation was found between the long-term paraspinal muscle changes and LBP history. Moreover, multifidus and erector spinae muscle size, composition and degree of asymmetry do not appear to be major risk factors for the short-term (1-year) or long-term (15-year) development or prognosis of LBP, including sciatica.
Download or read book Neuromuscular Characteristics and Muscle Power as Determinants of Running Performance in Endurance Athletes written by Leena Paavolainen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yhteenveto.
Download or read book Physical Loading and Later Lower limb Function and Findings written by Jyrki Kettunen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yhteenveto.
Download or read book Therapeutic Exercise Programs and Subjects with Low Back Pain written by Tiina Kuukkanen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiivistelmä.
Download or read book Health related Fitness Test Battery for Middle aged Adults written by Jaana Suni and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yhteenveto.
Download or read book Sympathoadrenal Response to Resistance Exercise in Men Women and Pubescent Boys written by Teemu Pullinen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yhteenveto.
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Download or read book Effects of Physical Activity and Experimental Diabetes on Carbonic Anhydrase III and Markers of Collagen Synthesis in Skeletal Muscle and Serum written by Paula Virtanen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yhteenveto.
Download or read book Stretch reflex Adaptation in Man written by Janne Avela and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yhteenveto.
Download or read book Four Dance Subcultures written by Pipsa Nieminen and published by University of Jyvaskyla. This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yhteenveto.
Download or read book Performance related Emotions in Highly Skilled Soccer Players written by Pasi Syrjä and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yhteenveto: Suoritukseen liittyvät tuntemukset huipputason jalkapalloilijoilla : pitkittäistutkimus perustuen IZOF-malliin.
Download or read book Game Understanding and Game Performance in Badminton written by Minna Blomqvist and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yhteenveto.
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Download or read book Spinal Control The Rehabilitation of Back Pain written by Paul W. Hodges and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, international scientific and clinical leaders have collaborated to present this exclusive book which integrates state-of-the art engineering concepts of spine control into clinically relevant approaches for the rehabilitation of low back pain. Spinal Control identifies the scope of the problem around motor control of the spine and pelvis while defining key terminology and methods as well as placing experimental findings into context. Spinal Control also includes contributions that put forward different sides of critical arguments (e.g. whether or not to focus on training the deep muscles of the trunk) and then bring these arguments together to help both scientists and clinicians better understand the convergences and divergences within this field. On the one hand, this book seeks to resolve many of the issues that are debated in existing literature, while on the other, its contributing opinion leaders present current best practice on how to study the questions facing the field of spine control, and then go on to outline the key directions for future research. Spinal Control – the only expert resource which provides a trusted, consensus approach to low back pain rehabilitation for both clinicians and scientists alike! - Covers the most important issues in spine control research - Illustrates the clinical relevance of research and how this is or can be applied in clinical practice - Edited and written by world leading experts, contributing first class content on different aspects of spine control - Chapters that bring together the expertise of these world leaders on topics such as neuromotor mechanisms of spine control, proprioception, subgrouping in back pain and modelling spine stability - An extensive and illustrated clinical consensus chapter that brings together the philosophies of clinical opinion leaders for the first time
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