Daniel L. Belavý

TL;DR: High reliability of a novice rater was demonstrated for some measurement conditions and inconsistencies in the pattern of results suggest that for a novice assessor using RUSI, training should be performed and reliability assessed for each abdominal muscle and measurement condition intended to be used for research and clinical practice.

TL;DR: An increased CSA of the trunk flexor musculature may reflect muscle shortening or possible overactivity during bed rest and may in part explain the negative effects of bed rest seen in low back pain sufferers.

TL;DR: A novel multi‐scale and modality dropout learning framework to locate and segment IVDs from four‐modality MR images and presents a random modality voxel dropout strategy which alleviates the co‐adaption issue and increases the discriminative capability of the network.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that changes in the lumbar discs during bed-rest and selective atrophy of the MF muscle may be important factors in the occurrence of LBP after prolonged bed- rest.

TL;DR: Evidence of changes in motor control of the abdominal muscles in subjects with LBP is provided, using ultrasound imaging to assess changes in thickness of the TrA and internal oblique IO muscles as well as lateral movement of the anterior fascial insertion of the Transversus abdominis muscle.