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Abdominal muscle response to a simulated weight-bearing task by elite Australian Rules football players

Overview of attention for article published in Human Movement Science, August 2011
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Title
Abdominal muscle response to a simulated weight-bearing task by elite Australian Rules football players
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Human Movement Science, August 2011
DOI 10.1016/j.humov.2011.04.005
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Jodie Hyde, Warren R. Stanton, Julie A. Hides

Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine the automatic recruitment of the deep abdominal muscles during a unilateral simulated weight-bearing task by elite Australian Rules football (AFL) players with and without low back pain (LBP). An observational cross-sectional study was conducted using ultrasound imaging to measure the thickness of the internal oblique (IO) and transversus abdominis (TrA) muscles. Thirty-seven elite male AFL players participated. Repeated measures factors included 'force level' (rest, 25% and 45% of body weight), 'leg' (dominant or non-dominant kicking leg) and 'side' (ultrasound side ipsilateral or contralateral to the leg used for the weight-bearing task). The dependent variables were thickness of the IO and TrA muscles. The results of this study showed that thickness of the IO (p<.0001) and TrA (p<.0001) muscles increased in response to 'force level'. During the task, the thickness of the IO muscle on the contralateral side of the trunk relative to the leg being tested, increased more in participants with current LBP (p=.034). This pattern was more distinct on the non-dominant kicking leg. Altered abdominal muscle recruitment in elite athletes with low back pain may be an attempt by the central nervous system (CNS) to compensate for inadequate lumbo-pelvic stability.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 1 1%
Unknown 89 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 18%
Student > Bachelor 13 14%
Researcher 11 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 4%
Other 15 17%
Unknown 23 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 20 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 16 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 14%
Social Sciences 4 4%
Engineering 3 3%
Other 8 9%
Unknown 26 29%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 April 2015.
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#5,118,975
of 25,374,647 outputs
Outputs from Human Movement Science
#234
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#26,393
of 131,760 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Human Movement Science
#4
of 16 outputs
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