ArticleMedical & biological engineering & computing2021
Effects of body postures on the shear modulus of thoracolumbar fascia: a shear wave elastography study.
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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
- Dose-response relationship between daily screen time and the risk of low back pain among children and adolescents: a meta-analysis of 57831 participants.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2023Pooled it
- Acute Oral Hydration and Thoracolumbar Fascia Stiffness in Healthy Adults.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Thoracolumbar fascia thickness and body mass index as predictors of pain sensitivity: a single-blinded experimental hypertonic saline study.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2026Article
- A review and empirical findings of fasciae and muscle interactions in low back pain.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Evidence of spinal stiffening following fusionless bipolar fixation for neuromuscular scoliosis: a shear wave elastography assessment of lumbar annulus fibrosus.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 · 2024Review
- Is thoracolumbar fascia shear-wave modulus affected by active and passive knee flexion?Journal of anatomy · 2024Article
- Fascia Tissue Manipulations in Chronic Low Back Pain: A Pragmatic Comparative Randomized Clinical Trial of the 4xT MethodLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Impaired Lumbar Extensor Force Control Is Associated with Increased Lifting Knee Velocity in People with Chronic Low-Back Pain.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography Quantitatively Assesses Tension Changes of Supraspinous/Interspinous Ligament Complex Under Varied Loads.International journal of spine surgery · 2023Article
- A Novel Wall Touch-Single Limb Stance Exercise for Dynamic Activation o f Gluteus Maximus - A Cross Sectional Study.Journal of orthopaedics · 2023Article
- Effects of Isometric Plantar-Flexion on the Lower Limb Muscle and Lumbar Tissue Stiffness.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2021Article
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Abstract
This study is aimed to use shear wave elastography (SWE) to study the relationship between shear modulus and different body postures of the thoracolumbar fascia (TLF) and acquire physiologically meaningful information from the stiffness-posture graph to better quantify passive flexion responses. Seven passive postures were defined to evaluate the shear modulus of right side TLF at the third and fourth lumbar vertebra levels (L3 and L4) in twenty healthy male subjects. The TLF stiffness was significantly different among different postures (p < 0.001), and the TLF stiffness at L3 was always less than that at L4 (p < 0.001). As the forward tilt increased from 0 to 60°, the TLF stiffness increased in sitting and standing postures by 54.01% and 192.84%. In the neutral postures, the TLF stiffness in standing and sitting postures was 66.98% and 165.48% higher than that in rest posture. The above results show that the elastic properties of TLF play an important role in maintaining body static posture and that the forward tilt and sitting postures are likely to induce low back pain (LBP). In conclusion, this study provides preliminary in vivo data for the relationship between body postures and TLF stiffness.
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