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People with low back pain tend to have INCREASED activation of abdominals and low back muscles
- Discriminating Healthy Controls and Two Clinical Subgroups of Nonspecific Chronic Low Back Pain Patients Using Trunk Muscle Activation and Lumbosacral Kinematics of Postures and Movements (Dankaerts et al. 2009)
- Changes in muscle activation patterns and subjective low back pain ratings during prolonged standing in response to an exercise intervention (Nelson-Wong & Callaghan, 2010
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