ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020
Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging Differences in Multifidus and Thoracolumbar Fasciae between Athletes with and without Chronic Lumbopelvic Pain: A Case-Control Study.
Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04582812 (Functional Correlations, Utility Model and Effectiveness of Respiratory Training in Low Back Pain), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Functional Correlations, Utility Model and Effectiveness of Respiratory Training in Low Back Pain: Health and Gender Education
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
- Differences in the Thoracolumbar Fascia Between Low Back Pain Patients and Healthy Individuals: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2026Pooled it
- Effects of percussive massage therapy on fascia echo intensity and fascia thickness in firefighters with chronic non-specific low back pain: a randomized controlled trial.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2024Trial
- Acute Effects of Percussive Massage Therapy on Thoracolumbar Fascia Thickness and Ultrasound Echo Intensity in Healthy Male Individuals: A Randomized Controlled Trial.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- The role of morphology and function of intrinsic foot muscles in young handball players with chronic ankle instability.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Morphological and Compositional Features of Lumbar Multifidus in Athletes with Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2026Article
- Classification of paravertebral muscle trophism and its correlation with thoraco-lumbar fascia thickening in patients with chronic low back pain.Journal of ultrasound · 2025Article
- Assessment of the Fascial System Thickness in Patients with and Without Low Back Pain: A Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Morphological characteristics of the thoracolumbar fascia: relationship to chronic low back pain and back extension strength.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2025Article
- Comparative study of thoracolumbar fascia changes in weightlifters with and without low back pain.PloS one · 2025Article
- A Secondary Analysis of Gender Respiratory Features for Ultrasonography Bilateral Diaphragm Thickness, Respiratory Pressures, and Pulmonary Function in Low Back Pain.Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) · 2024Article
- A pre-market interventional, single-arm clinical investigation of a new topical lotion based on hyaluronic acid and peptides, EGYFILBMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
- Cervical Impairments in Subjects with Chronic Migraine: An Observational Study.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Ultrasound Imaging of Thoracolumbar Fascia Thickness: Chronic Non-Specific Lower Back Pain versus Healthy Subjects; A Sign of a "Frozen Back"?Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The relationship between clinical examination measures and ultrasound measures of fascia thickness surrounding trunk muscles or lumbar multifidus fatty infiltrations: An exploratory study.Journal of anatomy · 2023Article
- Diaphragmatic Activation Correlated with Lumbar Multifidus Muscles and Thoracolumbar Fascia by B-Mode and M-Mode Ultrasonography in Subjects with and without Non-Specific Low Back Pain: A Pilot Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Immediate Effects of Myofascial Release Treatment on Lumbar Microcirculation: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of Ultrasonography Visual Biofeedback of the Diaphragm in Conjunction with Inspiratory Muscle Training on Muscle Thickness, Respiratory Pressures, Pain, Disability, Quality of Life and Pulmonary Function in Athletes with Non-Specific Low Back Pain: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Muscle Quality Assessment by Ultrasound Imaging of the Intrinsic Foot Muscles in Individuals with and without Plantar Fasciitis: A Case-Control Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Muscular Echovariation as a New Biomarker for the Classification of Soleus Muscle Pathology: A Cross-Sectional Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Quantitative Ultrasound Changes in Echotexture and Functional Parameters after a Multicomponent Training Program in Pre-Frailty Individuals: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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Abstract
New trends in ultrasound imaging are focused on exploration of morphology and muscle quality. The main goal of the study was to evaluate the first-order descriptor and echostructure of lumbar multifidus at the L4 vertebral level in athletes with and without chronic lumbopelvic pain (CLPP). A case-control study was performed in 15 semiprofessional athletes with CLPP and 15 without (healthy athletes). Lumbar multifidus echointensity and echovariation were measured for muscle quality assessment. Echostructure was used to evaluate lumbar multifidus cross-sectional area (CSA) at resting and during muscle contraction, respective differences during both phases (CSA
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