Identifying intrinsic and reflexive contributions to low-back stabilization

P. van Drunen, E. Maaswinkel, F.C.T. van der Helm, J.H. van Dieen, R. Happee

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    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 1.1. 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. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1440-1446
    JournalJournal of Biomechanics
    Volume46
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

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