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Cervical paraspinal muscle abnormalities and symptom duration: A multivariate analysis
Author(s) -
Dillingham Timothy R.,
Pezzin Liliana E.,
Lauder Tamara D.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
muscle and nerve
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.025
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 1097-4598
pISSN - 0148-639X
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4598(199805)21:5<640::aid-mus11>3.0.co;2-z
Subject(s) - medicine , multivariate analysis , multivariate statistics , electromyography , surgery , physical medicine and rehabilitation , statistics , mathematics
The purpose of this study was to determine whether paraspinal and other major proximal and distal muscle spontaneous activity (SA) is related to cervical radiculopathy (CR) symptom duration. A multivariate analysis of 124 (retrospectively identified) electrodiagnostically confirmed CRs was used to test these hypotheses. The results showed no evidence of correlation between SA and symptom duration for any of the upper limb muscles analyzed. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Muscle Nerve 21:640–642, 1998.