ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Association of Piriformis Thickness, Hip Muscle Strength, and Low Back Pain Patients with and without Piriformis Syndrome in Malaysia.
Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Comparative Effects of Neural Mobilization of Sciatic Nerve Versus Stretching Among Patients With Piriformis Syndrome
Observational Assessment of Deep Gluteal Syndrome and Bilateral Piriformis, Gluteus Medius, and Gluteus Maximus Muscle Thickness Using Ultrasonography in Patients With Unilateral Greater Trochanteric Pain Syndrome
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
- Hip biomechanics in patients with low back pain, what do we know? A systematic review.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2024Pooled it
- Impact of Physiotherapy Intervention on Pain, Quality of Life, and Function in Low Back Pain Associated With Piriformis Syndrome: Protocol for Systematic Review.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Editorial for the Special Issue "Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Trends and Applications".Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Evaluation of the Interrater Reliability of Sonographic Measurements of Muscle Thickness of 38 Piriformis Muscles in 19 Patients with Piriformis Syndrome.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2024Article
- Altered lumbo-pelvic-hip complex muscle morphometry and contraction change in postpartum pelvic girdle pain and asymptomatic subjects: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Low back pain is a serious threat to human health and the illness jeopardizes the human workforce and pressurizes the health system in the community. Low back pain might be related to piriformis syndrome (PS), which is a disorder presented as muscular spasm and hypertrophy that is strongly associated with piriformis thickness. Nevertheless, the relationship between piriformis thickness and morphological and functional changes of the gluteal muscles in PS remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the association between the thickness, strength, and activation of piriformis and gluteus muscles (maximus and medius) among low back pain (LBP) patients with and without PS. This is a case-control study conducted at HSNZ and UiTM from 2019-2020. A total number of 91 participants (LBP + PS (
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