a comparison of automatic and voluntary contractions in subjects with and without low back pain

Authors

sedighe kahrizi

department of health education, faculty of medical sciences, tarbiat modares university, tehran, iran. fatemeh mirzae

msc of physical therapy ,department of health education, faculty of medical sciences, tarbiat modares university, tehran, iran. manijeh mokhtari dizaji

department of health education, faculty of medical sciences, tarbiat modares university, tehran, iran

abstract

background: the comparison between voluntary and automatic contraction of deep abdominal muscles in patients with nonspecific low back pain (nlbp) may justify being the best treat for them. the aim of this case-controlled study was to compare changes in the thickness of the transverses abdomin is (tra) and internal oblique (io) muscles during the abdominal drawing-in maneuver (adim) and the active straight-leg raise (aslr) test. methods: this study involved 30 women including 20 women with and 10 women without non-specific low back pain. the abdominal muscle thickness in the supine crook-lying, aslr, and adim exercises were measured. two-way repeated-measures anova was used to compare the thickness ratio results between the two groups. results: there were significant differences between the tra (p

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Journal title:
international journal of musculoskeletal pain prevention

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