Muscle Atrophy Measurement as Assessment Method for Low Back Pain Patients

Low back pain is one of the most common pain disorders defined as pain, muscle tension, or stiffness localized below the costal margin and above the inferior gluteal folds, sometimes with accompanying leg pain. The meaning of the symptomatic atrophy of paraspinal muscles and some pelvic muscles has...

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Published inAdvances in experimental medicine and biology Vol. 1088; p. 437
Main Author Skorupska, Elżbieta
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 2018
Subjects
Humans
Low Back Pain - diagnostic imaging
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Muscular Atrophy - physiopathology
Pain Measurement
Paraspinal Muscles - pathology
Low back-related leg pain
Muscle atrophy
Gluteus muscles
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Summary:Low back pain is one of the most common pain disorders defined as pain, muscle tension, or stiffness localized below the costal margin and above the inferior gluteal folds, sometimes with accompanying leg pain. The meaning of the symptomatic atrophy of paraspinal muscles and some pelvic muscles has been proved. Nowadays, a need for new diagnostic tools for specific examination of low back pain patients is posited, and it has been proposed that magnetic resonance imaging assessment toward muscle atrophy may provide some additional information enabling the subclassification of that group of patients.
ISSN:0065-2598
DOI:10.1007/978-981-13-1435-3_20