Trunk Muscle Strength in and Effect of Trunk Muscle Exercises for Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

Muscular Performance Assessment of Trunk Extensors: A Critical Appraisal of the Literature

“…patients following back surgery (Hakkinen et al, 2003), elderly subjects (Rantanen et al, 1997), etc.). Patients with CLBP had reduced values compared to healthy controls in most studies (Reid et al, 1991;Hultman et al, 1993;Kankaanpaa et al, 1998b;Handa et al, 2000;Bayramoglu et al, 2001;Kramer et al, 2005;Gruther et al, 2009), but not all studies (Shirado et al, 1992;Cassisi et al, 1993;Takemasa et al, 1995;da Silva et al, 2005). Several methods (see below) have been used for testing maximal strength.…”

Factors associated with low back pain in workers: the influence of anthropometric measures, abdominal endurance and hip flexibility

“…Some authors have reported that abdominal endurance is significantly lower in LBP patients compared to healthy individuals without [12] examined the trunk strength in a group with LBP and a control group and found that individuals with LBP have affected trunk muscles, which can be attributed to a general muscular weakness. Takemasa et al [19] observed that exercise increased the strength in trunk muscles and decreased LBP induced by organic lumbar lesions. Therefore, increasing trunk muscle strength and abdominal endurance at work is effective for LBP treatment.…”

“…Previous studies have demonstrated that individuals with LBP show a decreased muscular strength [4,11,19] and endurance in trunk muscles. Previous studies have shown that abdominal muscles can influence the prevalence of LBP.…”

Relationships between Functional Movement Screen, VAS, ODI and Back Endurance in Individual with Nonspecific Chronic Low Back Pain

“…Trunk muscles play an important role in supporting and stabilizing the lumbar spine. 26,27 Poor back extensor muscle endurance is related to a low fatigue threshold 1 and causes uncontrollable trunk movement. 26 Mitchell et al found that total FMS scores were associated with core strength and dynamic posture.…”