Core stability and low-back pain: a causal fallacy.

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

The trial behind it

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Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

1. A Randomized Controlled Trial Investigating the Effects of Equine Simulator Riding on Low Back Pain, Morphological Changes, and Trunk Musculature in Elderly Women.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020
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2. Static and Dynamic Motor Control in Active Young Adults: Associations with Oswestry Disability Index and Functional Movement Screen Asymmetries.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026
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3. Chronic low back pain and exercise: a molecular perspective on aerobic and anaerobic core training.Molecular biology reports · 2025
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4. Effects of 3D Moving Platform Exercise on Physiological Parameters and Pain in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2020
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Corrections and comments

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  The effects of Gyrotonic expansion system exercise and trunk stability exercise on muscle activity and lumbar stability for the subjects with chronic low back pain.2019

Authors and funding

2 authors.

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Abstract

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