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Record W1984475220 · doi:10.1179/106698103790826419

Chronic Low Back Pain: A Critical Review of Specific Therapeutic Exercise Protocols on Musculoskeletal and Neuromuscular Parameters

2003· review· en· W1984475220 on OpenAlex

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy · 2003
Typereview
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMusculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
Canadian institutionsDalhousie University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicinePhysical medicine and rehabilitationFlexibility (engineering)Physical therapyLow back painTrunkManual therapySpinal manipulationBack painAlternative medicine

Abstract

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Although exercise is often used in the treatment of chronic non-specific low back pain, little is known about the efficacy of specific exercises on the physiological or structural processes underlying this form of back pain. We evaluated the current published studies that used specific exercise interventions for non-specific low back pain and that utilized strength, endurance, neuromuscular control, flexibility, or posture as primary outcome variables. Our review revealed that 11 different control trials fit our criteria (15 published papers), with the majority evaluating strengthening protocols (N=13). Moderate evidence indicates that specific exercises improve abdominal and trunk extensor strength and endurance, while minimal evidence supports improvements in neuromuscular control characteristics, posture, spinal motion, or muscle tissue characteristics. Most studies reported improvements in both functional daily activities as well as an accompanying reduction in low back pain. We concluded that more thorough investigations utilizing better diagnostic classifications are needed to determine whether specific exercise protocols produce the desired effects on neuromuscular control impairments as well as on the mechanical environments that have been shown to contribute detrimentally to low back pain.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.698
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0040.002
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.112
GPT teacher head0.417
Teacher spread0.305 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it