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Evidence of lumbar multifidus muscle wasting ipsilateral to symptoms in patients with acute/subacute low back pain.
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The site of wasting in patients corresponded to the clinically determined level of symptoms in 24 of the 26 patients, but there was no correlation between the degree of asymmetry and severity of symptoms, suggesting that the mechanism of wasting was not generalized disuse atrophy or spinal reflex inhibition.Abstract:
The effect of low back pain on the size of the lumbar multifidus muscle was examined using real-time ultrasound imaging. Bilateral scans were performed in 26 patients with acute unilateral low back pain (LBP) symptoms (aged 17–46 years) and 51 normal subjects (aged 19–32 years). In all patients, mulread more
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