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Dirk Cambier
Researcher at Ghent University Hospital
Publications - 24
Citations - 2666
Dirk Cambier is an academic researcher from Ghent University Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Low back pain & Multifidus muscle. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 24 publications receiving 2474 citations. Previous affiliations of Dirk Cambier include Catholic University of Leuven & American Physical Therapy Association.
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Muscle Flexibility as a Risk Factor for Developing Muscle Injuries in Male Professional Soccer Players A Prospective Study
TL;DR: Results indicate that soccer players with an increased tightness of the hamstring or quadriceps muscles have a statistically higher risk for a subsequent musculoskeletal lesion.
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Intrinsic risk factors for the development of anterior knee pain in an athletic population. A two-year prospective study.
TL;DR: The latter four parameters play a dominant role in the genesis of anterior knee pain and are deemed to be risk factors for this syndrome.
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Individual and work related risk factors for neck pain among office workers: a cross sectional study
TL;DR: It is indicated that physical and psychosocial work factors, as well as individual variables, are associated with the frequency of neck pain and opportunities for intervention strategies in order to stimulate an ergonomic work place setting and increase a positive psychossocial work environment are suggested.
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Effects of three different training modalities on the cross sectional area of the lumbar multifidus muscle in patients with chronic low back pain
Lieven Danneels,Guy Vanderstraeten,Dirk Cambier,Erik Witvrouw,Jan Bourgois,Wim Dankaerts,H. J. De Cuyper +6 more
TL;DR: Treatment consisting of stabilisation training combined with an intensive lumbar dynamic-static strengthening programme seems to be the most appropriate method of restoring the size of the multifidus muscle.
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Differences in electromyographic activity in the multifidus muscle and the iliocostalis lumborum between healthy subjects and patients with sub-acute and chronic low back pain.
Lieven Danneels,Pascal Coorevits,Ann Cools,Guy Vanderstraeten,Dirk Cambier,Erik Witvrouw,H. J. De Cuyper +6 more
TL;DR: The results showed that, in comparison with the healthy subjects, the chronic low back pain patients displayed significantly lower EMG activity of the MF during the coordination exercises, indicating that, over the long term, backPain patients have a reduced capacity to voluntarily recruit the MF in order to obtain a neutral lordosis.