Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10432566 | Journal of Biomechanics | 2013 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
Motor control deficits have been suggested as potential cause and/or effect of a-specific chronic low-back pain and its recurrent behavior. Therefore, the goal of this study is to identify motor control in low-back stabilization by simultaneously quantifying the intrinsic and reflexive contributions. Upper body sway was evoked using continuous force perturbations at the trunk, while subjects performed a resist or relax task. Frequency response functions (FRFs) and coherences of the admittance (kinematics) and reflexes (sEMG) were obtained. In comparison with the relax task, the resist task resulted in a 61% decrease in admittance and a 73% increase in reflex gain below 1.1Â Hz. Intrinsic and reflexive contributions were captured by a physiologically-based, neuromuscular model, including proprioceptive feedback from muscle spindles (position and velocity) and Golgi tendon organs (force). This model described on average 90% of the variance in kinematics and 39% of the variance in sEMG, while resulting parameter values were consistent over subjects.
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Authors
P. van Drunen, E. Maaswinkel, F.C.T. van der Helm, J.H. van Dieën, R. Happee,