TY - GEN
T1 - An initial study on the feature of lumbar muscle thickness in nurses with lumbar disc herniation
AU - Du, Wenjing
AU - Li, Huihui
AU - Ivanov, Kamen
AU - Wang, Lei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2017/1/24
Y1 - 2017/1/24
N2 - Constant physical work is the leading cause of low back pain (LBP) in nurses, which affects their well-being and working efficiency. With this study, we aimed to explore the features of lumbar muscles including multifidi (MF) and musculus tiansversus abdominis (MTA) of nurses with LBP suffering from lumbar disc herniation (LDH). We estimated the degree of lumbar muscle strain by compaiiug the lumbar muscle thickness between nurses with LDH and healthy subjects. In this experiment participated thirty-one patients with LDH and 37 healthy controls. We asked the subjects to perform five cycles of forward and backward bending from a standing position. Meanwhile, we captured sonomyographic images of multifidi (MF) and musculi trausversus abdominis (MTA). As results, the muscle thickness of MTA from light side showed significant difference between healthy female subjects and female nurses with LDH (p=0.00K0.05 ). LDH subjects exhibited a lower muscle thickness than that of healthy subjects duiing forward bending. Also, the MTA thickness of controls was lower than that of LDH nurses duiing backward bending. We also found that higher age of LDH nurses was associated with higher muscle thickness of the mo explored muscles. Higher scores from the Oswestry Disability Questionnaire scores correspond to a higher thickness of light MF and left MTA and lower thickness of the light MTA, respectively.
AB - Constant physical work is the leading cause of low back pain (LBP) in nurses, which affects their well-being and working efficiency. With this study, we aimed to explore the features of lumbar muscles including multifidi (MF) and musculus tiansversus abdominis (MTA) of nurses with LBP suffering from lumbar disc herniation (LDH). We estimated the degree of lumbar muscle strain by compaiiug the lumbar muscle thickness between nurses with LDH and healthy subjects. In this experiment participated thirty-one patients with LDH and 37 healthy controls. We asked the subjects to perform five cycles of forward and backward bending from a standing position. Meanwhile, we captured sonomyographic images of multifidi (MF) and musculi trausversus abdominis (MTA). As results, the muscle thickness of MTA from light side showed significant difference between healthy female subjects and female nurses with LDH (p=0.00K0.05 ). LDH subjects exhibited a lower muscle thickness than that of healthy subjects duiing forward bending. Also, the MTA thickness of controls was lower than that of LDH nurses duiing backward bending. We also found that higher age of LDH nurses was associated with higher muscle thickness of the mo explored muscles. Higher scores from the Oswestry Disability Questionnaire scores correspond to a higher thickness of light MF and left MTA and lower thickness of the light MTA, respectively.
KW - Low back pain
KW - Lumbar disc herniation
KW - Multifidi
KW - Musculus trausversus abdominis
KW - Oswestry disability questionnaire
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U2 - 10.1109/ICInfA.2016.7831997
DO - 10.1109/ICInfA.2016.7831997
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85015766345
T3 - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, IEEE ICIA 2016
SP - 1174
EP - 1178
BT - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, IEEE ICIA 2016
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation, IEEE ICIA 2016
Y2 - 1 August 2016 through 3 August 2016
ER -