Khademi, J. and Bandpei, M.A.M. and Abdollahi, I. and Arabloo, A.M. and Darvishi, H. and Aghamiri, S.S.
(2015)
Measurement of abdominal muscle thickness using ultrasound: A reliability study on patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain.
Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, 24 (122).
pp. 265-273.
Abstract
Background and purpose: The purpose of this study was to assess the Within-day and Between-days reliability of abdominal muscles size measurement in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain (LBP) using ultrasound (US). Materials and methods: In this study, 15 patients with chronic non-specific LBP (20-50 years old) were recruited. The reliability of the abdominal muscle size (External and Internal oblique, and Transversus abdominis) was assessed in a relaxed and contraction state by a real time US. Two images were taken on the same day with an hour interval to assess the within day reliability and the third image was taken a week later to determine the between- days reliability. Results: Within-day and between-days reliability of abdominal muscles thickness measurements using US in patients with nonspecific chronic LBP in both rest and contraction state found to be high, ICC = 0.90 for within and ICC=0.85 for between-days of Transversus abdominis muscle in rest state and ICC= 0.82 and 0.86 in contraction state, respectively. For Internal oblique muscle, ICC=0.90 (82) and ICC=0.88 (88) were found for within-day and between-days in rest and contraction state, respectively. Within-day and between-days reliability at rest of ICC=0.86 (79) and in contraction state of ICC=0.79 (75) were demonstrated for External Oblique muscle. Conclusion: Results of the present study suggest US as a reliable method to evaluate the thickness of the abdominal muscles which could be used as a reliable tool in the assessment of patients and also in evaluating the effect of different therapeutic interventions. © 2015, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences. All rights reserved.
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abdominal wall musculature; adult; Article; clinical article; external oblique muscle; human; image analysis; internal oblique muscle; low back pain; muscle contraction; muscle relaxation; muscle thickness; real time echography; reliability; transversus abdominis muscle; echography; patient assessment; reliability; rest |
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معاونت تحقیقات و فناوری |
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10 Sep 2016 08:18 |
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16 Jan 2017 06:30 |
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http://eprints.goums.ac.ir/id/eprint/4793 |
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