Rachael Lowe

Rachael Lowe is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Physiopedia. A physiotherapist and technology specialist Rachael has been working with Physiopedia since 2008 to create a resource that provides universal access to physiotherapy knowledge as well as a platform for connecting and educating the global physiotherapy profession.

Arthrokinematics in a Subgroup of Patients Likely to Benefit From a Lumbar Stabilization Exercise Program

April 4, 2007 by Rachael Lowe

Deydre S Teyhen, Timothy W Flynn, John D Childs andLawrence D Abraham

A clinical prediction rule (CPR) has been reported to identifypatients with low back pain who are likely to benefit from stabilizationexercises. The aim of this study was to characterize the spinalmotion, using digital fluoroscopic video, of a subgroup of subjectswith low back pain. Twenty subjects who were positive on the CPR were compared with20 control subjects who were healthy. The magnitude and timing of lumbar sagittal-plane intersegmentalangular and linear displacement were assessed. Receiver operatingcharacteristic curves and accuracy statistics were used to developa kinematic model.The authors report that the findings suggest that individuals with mid-range aberrantmotion without signs of hypermobility are likely to benefitfrom these exercises. The developed model describes alteredkinematics of this subgroup of subjects and helps to provideconstruct validity for the developed CPR.