Effects of the trunk position on muscle stiffness that reflects elongation of the lumbar erector spinae and multifidus muscles: an ultrasonic shear wave elastography study

Mitsuhiro Masaki,Xiang Ji,Taishi Yamauchi,Hiroshige Tateuchi,Noriaki Ichihashi

Effects of the trunk position on muscle stiffness that reflects elongation of the lumbar erector spinae and multifidus muscles: an ultrasonic shear wave elastography study

2019

Mitsuhiro Masaki
Xiang Ji
Taishi Yamauchi
Hiroshige Tateuchi
Noriaki Ichihashi

Purpose The present study aimed to clarify the effects of the trunk position on muscle stiffness that reflects elongation of the lumbar erector spinae and lumbar multifidus muscles using ultrasonic shear wave elastography (SWE).

Keywords:

Elongation
Lumbar
Elastography
Endocrinology
Internal medicine
Stiffness
Ultrasonic sensor
Medicine
Shear (sheet metal)
Trunk
Anatomy
Ultrasonography
Erector spinae muscles
muscle stiffness
Multifidus muscle
Sitting
Prone position

Correction
Source
Cite
Save
Machine Reading By IdeaReader

References

Citations