Friday, May 25, 2007
Lower back pain is commonly due to irritation of the L5 and S1 nerve roots. Hip pain may result secondary to pain and spasm muscles of the lower back and all muscles that cross the hip.
Patients may have trouble with external rotation of the hip due to pain and spasm of muscles [...]
Friday, May 18, 2007
Lower back pain is commonly associated with irritation of the L5 and S1 nerve roots bilaterally. Depending on whether the L5 or the S1 nerve root is more irritated, there can be pain and spasm that causes tightening of the muscles that perform external rotation or muscles that perform internal rotation.
Dissection anatomy [...]
May 11, 2007
Patients with lower back pain often secondary to irritation of the L5 and S1 nerve roots will have difficulty not only due to the pain but due to weakness of the hip abductor muscles.
The most powerful hip abductor is the gluteus medius. It is supplied by the superior gluteal nerve (L4, L5 and [...]
Friday, May 04, 2007
Patients with lower back pain from irritation of the L5 and S1 nerve roots often have weakness from pain and spasm in the hip abductor muscles and the hip extensor muscles. This allows for imbalanced contraction of the hip adductor muscles since the opposition muscles are weak.
The hip adductors then become [...]
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Patients with lower back pain often have hip flexor tightness. The hip flexor that is very easy to locate is the sartorius due to its strap-like form stretching from the outer aspect of the hip to the medial aspect of the knee joint. This muscle allows us to sit in the taylor [...]
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Patients with lower back pain often have tightness of the hip flexor muscles. This is aggravated by the presence of a forward bent posture from lower back pain and presence of weak and shortened paraspinal muscles. This places the abdominal wall and the hip flexor muscles in an advantageous position to bring the trunk [...]
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Low back pain| abdominal wall
Patients with chronic lower back pain caused by lower back muscles in spasm results in patients having difficulty in straightening the spine. In such a situation, the abdominal wall muscles have less opposition and become tight and shortened aggravating the forward bent posture.
To test the strength of the [...]
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