Mechanical stability of the lumbar spine is known to have implications for injury and chronic low back pain. Even though this topic is fairly covered by scientific literature, the role of abdominal muscles, in particular the deep once, is often neglected. Especially transverse abdominal (TA) muscle might play privileged role: with mainly transverse muscular fibers, both activated TA muscles com...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Osteitis pubis refers to a painful, inflammatory condition involving the pubic bones, pubic symphysis, and adjacent structures. So, the aims of the study were to evaluate the strength of trunk muscles of soccer players suffering from osteitis pubis, and to compare the agonist/antagonist ratio of trunk muscles in osteitis pubis athletes with that of healthy athletes. ...

background :  the aim of this paper was to study the prevalence and intensity of anisakids lar­vae in the long tail tuna fish captured from iranian shores of persian gulf. methods : different organs including skin, abdominal cavity, stomach and intestinal contents, stom­ach sub serous tissues, liver, spleen, gonads and 20 grams of muscles of 100 long tail tuna fish ( thannus tonggol ) caught fr...

The external and internal oblique, transverse abdominis and the rectus abdominis muscles constitute the anterolateral abdominal wall muscles. They are striated and contract voluntarily. We investigated the hypothesis that contraction of these muscles by coughing or straining, can also occur as a reflex. Effect of straining on muscles was tested in 19 healthy volunteers. The intra-abdominal pres...