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Reliability of shear-wave elastography in assessing thoracolumbar fascia elasticity in healthy male.
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- Remote Changes of Mechanical Stiffness Following Local Stretching or Contraction: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2026Pooled it
- Ultrasound Imaging of Thoracolumbar Fascia: A Systematic Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2024Pooled it
- An investigation of the functional significance of the pyramidalis muscle using shear wave elastography.Journal of anatomy · 2026Article
- Efficacy of Myofascial Release in Improving the Flexibility of Erector Spinae and Thoracolumbar Fascia in Subjects with Chronic Low Back Pain-A Sonoelastographic Analysis.International journal of therapeutic massage & bodywork · 2026Article
- Acute Oral Hydration and Thoracolumbar Fascia Stiffness in Healthy Adults.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Reproducibility of a Shear Wave Elastography Procedure for Assessing the Piriformis Muscle Stiffness in a Sample of Healthy Young Adults Under Controlled Laboratory Conditions: An Intra- and Inter-Examiner Reliability Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Reliability of quadriceps and hamstring muscle stiffness measured by ultrasound shear wave elastography in patients with knee osteoarthritis.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Article
- Comparative study of thoracolumbar fascia changes in weightlifters with and without low back pain.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Is thoracolumbar fascia shear-wave modulus affected by active and passive knee flexion?Journal of anatomy · 2024Article
- Shear wave elastography based analysis of changes in fascial and muscle stiffness in patients with chronic non-specific low back pain.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2024Article
- Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography Quantitatively Assesses Tension Changes of Supraspinous/Interspinous Ligament Complex Under Varied Loads.International journal of spine surgery · 2023Article
- Effects of a Myofascial Technique on the Stiffness and Thickness of the Thoracolumbar Fascia and Lumbar Erector Spinae Muscles in Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized before-and-after Experimental Study.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Reliability of shear wave elastography for the assessment of gastrocnemius fascia elasticity in healthy individual.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Neck Disability Index Is Better in Classification of Recovery after Whiplash Injury in Comparison with Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography of Trapezius Muscle.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Effects of body postures on the shear modulus of thoracolumbar fascia: a shear wave elastography study.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2021Article
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Abstract
The objectives of this study were to examine the intra and inter-operator reliability of shear wave elastography (SWE) device in quantifying the shear modulus of thoracolumbar fascia (TLF) and the device's abilities to examine the shear modulus of the TLF during upper body forward. Twenty healthy male subjects participated in this study (mean age: 18.4 ± 0.7 years). Two independent operators performed the shear modulus of TLF during upper body forward using SWE, and interclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and minimum detectable change (MDC) were calculated. The shear modulus of the TLF was quantified by operator A using SWE at upper body forward 60°. The intra-operator (ICC = 0.860-0.938) and inter-operator (ICC = 0.904-0.944) reliabilities for measuring the shear modulus of the TLF with the upper body forward 0° were rated as both excellent, and the MDC was 4.71 kPa. The TLF shear modulus of upper body forward 60°was increased 45.5% (L3) and 55.0% (L4) than that of upper body forward 0°. The results indicate that the SWE is a dependable tool to quantify the shear modulus of TLF and monitor its dynamic changes. Therefore, this device can be used for biomechanical study and intervention experiments of TLF.
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