Title |
Inter-rater reliability of three standardized functional tests in patients with low back pain
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Published in |
BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, June 2009
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2474-10-58 |
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Authors |
Johan Tidstrand, Eva Horneij |
Abstract |
Of all patients with low back pain, 85% are diagnosed as "non-specific lumbar pain". Lumbar instability has been described as one specific diagnosis which several authors have described as delayed muscular responses, impaired postural control as well as impaired muscular coordination among these patients. This has mostly been measured and evaluated in a laboratory setting. There are few standardized and evaluated functional tests, examining functional muscular coordination which are also applicable in the non-laboratory setting. In ordinary clinical work, tests of functional muscular coordination should be easy to apply. The aim of this present study was to therefore standardize and examine the inter-rater reliability of three functional tests of muscular functional coordination of the lumbar spine in patients with low back pain. |
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