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The Effects Of Spinal Braces To The Paraspinal Myoeletric Activity Of Backache Patients-Preliminary Study, Jwu-Wen Kuo, You-Li Chou, Jia-Jin J. Chen

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Lumbar spinal bracing is one of the methods used for management of low back pain. The effect of spinal brace to the paraspinal myoelectric activity is not well investigated. Most of the papers published concerned about the myoelectric activity of normal subject wearing spinal brace. We carry out this study to evaluate the effect of lumbar spinal brace on the paraspinal muscle activity of low back pain patient.Totally 10 mates were collected to proceed the program. Six of them were backache patinets, and the other 4 were normal subjects without history of low back pain .There is no significant difference …