A Clinical Tool for Office Assessment of Lumbar Spine Stabilization Endurance

OBJECTIVE: : To assess the validity and reliability of an office-based surrogate measure of lumbar spine-stabilization endurance capability; to establish norms and reliability in an asymptomatic group; and to compare their measures with those from a group of chronic mechanical low-back pain patients. DESIGN: : Eight healthy subjects participated in the tool-validation portion of the study that consisted of surface electromyographic (EMG) …