Trunk Muscle Size and Composition Assessment in Older Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain: An Intra-Examiner and Inter-Examiner Reliability Study | Zendy

Jaclyn Megan Sions | Zendy; Andrew C. Smith | Zendy; Gregory E. Hicks | Zendy; James M. Elliott | Zendy

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Trunk Muscle Size and Composition Assessment in Older Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain: An Intra-Examiner and Inter-Examiner Reliability Study

Author(s) -

Jaclyn Megan Sions,

Andrew C. Smith,

Gregory E. Hicks,

James M. Elliott

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

pain medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893

H-Index - 97

eISSN - 1526-4637

pISSN - 1526-2375

DOI - 10.1093/pm/pnv023

Subject(s) - intraclass correlation , medicine , cross sectional study , magnetic resonance imaging , low back pain , sarcopenia , lumbar , intramuscular fat , erector spinae muscles , physical therapy , anatomy , pathology , radiology , psychometrics , zoology , clinical psychology , alternative medicine , biology

To evaluate intra- and inter-examiner reliability for the assessment of relative cross-sectional area, muscle-to-fat infiltration indices, and relative muscle cross-sectional area, i.e., total cross-sectional area minus intramuscular fat, from T1-weighted magnetic resonance images obtained in older adults with chronic low back pain.

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