Author(s): Rosenstein B; Burdick J; Roussac A; Rye M; Naghdi N; Valentin S; Licka T; Sean M; Tétreault P; Elliott J; Fortin M; ...

It remains unclear whether paraspinal muscle fatty infiltration in low back pain (LBP) is i) solely intramuscular, ii) is lying outside the epimysium between the muscle and fascial plane (epimuscul ...

Article GUID: 38280825

Author(s): Fortin M; Rye M; Roussac A; Montpetit C; Burdick J; Naghdi N; Rosenstein B; Bertrand C; Macedo LG; Elliott JM; Dover G; DeMont R; Weber MH; ...

Low back pain (LBP), a globally widespread and persistent musculoskeletal disorder, benefits from exercise therapy. However, it remains unclear which type leads to greater changes in paraspinal mus ...

Article GUID: 37762861

Author(s): Masi S; Rye M; Roussac A; Naghdi N; Rosenstein B; Bailey JF; Fortin M;

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the agreement between paraspinal muscle composition measurements obtained from fat-water images using % fat-signal fraction (%FSF) in comparison to those obtained from T2-weighted magnetic resonance images ...

Article GUID: 36997912

Author(s): Crook J; Masi S; Naghdi N; Roussac A; Rye M; Rosenstein B; Rivaz H; Boily M; Weber MH; Fortin M; ...

Purpose: The aim of this observational cross-sectional study was to examine correlations of intramuscular fat content in lumbar multifidus (LM) by comparing muscle echo intensity (EI) and percent f ...

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Author(s): Naghdi N; Mohseni-Bandpei MA; Taghipour M; Rahmani N;

Background and Objective: Previous studies demonstrated that the prevalence of lumbar disc herniation (LDH) is relatively high. This investigation aimed to evaluate the size of lumbar multifidus (LM) muscle in patients with different degrees of LDH compared ...

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Author(s): Fortin M; Rye M; Roussac A; Naghdi N; Macedo LG; Dover G; Elliott JM; DeMont R; Weber MH; Pepin V; ...

Background: Exercise is a common approach for the management of patients with chronic non-specific low back pain (LBP). However, there is no clear mechanistic evidence or consensus on what type of ...

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