Lumbar multifidus muscle thickness does not predict patients with low back pain who improve with trunk stabilization exercises.
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...which CLBP patients will benefit from stabilization exercises (85)....
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...The concept of core stability has both its proponents (96) and its critics (85,97) with strongly held views on both sides and much controversy (98)....
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...Three included articles investigated TrA [19,59,85] and 2 included studies examined LM (Table 3) [22,102]....
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...The automatic LM contraction during 2 types of contralateral arm lifting task was measured by B-mode USI [22,102]....
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...Of these articles, one evaluated the treatment effect modification of TrA dynamic morphometry [19] and the rest investigated the prognostic ability of TrA/LM dynamic morphometry [22,59,85,102]....
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...The participants of the included studies were recruited from hospitals, physiotherapy and general practice clinics, and community-based advertisements [19,22,59,85,102]....
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...Four of 5 included articles investigated patients with chronic LBP [19,59,85,102]....
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...However, in some cases, 4 interventions that were successful in improving pain and function did not affect these motor control 5 variables [8-10]....
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