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Are cervical multifidus muscles active during whiplash and startle? An initial experimental study

BACKGROUND: The cervical multifidus muscles insert onto the lower cervical facet capsular ligaments and the cervical facet joints are the source of pain in some chronic whiplash patients. Reflex activation of the multifidus muscle during a whiplash exposure could potentially contribute to injuring t...

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Autores principales: Siegmund, Gunter P, Blouin, Jean-Sébastien, Carpenter, Mark G, Brault, John R, Inglis, J Timothy
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2440751/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18534030
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-9-80