Background Back extension exercises are often used in the rehabilitation of low back pain. However, at present it is not clear how the posterior muscles are recruited during different types of ...

Self-Management of Low Back Pain Has Small Effects For patients with chronic low back pain, compared with general exercise, specific trunk exercise results in significant reductions in self-rated ...

Lunge or kneel forward with left leg and hold a golf club in your left hand for balance. Raise right arm overhead and lean to the left, stretching the lats and hip on the right side. Hold for three ...

The back extension is a versatile exercise that can be performed virtually anywhere. It can be used as part of a training program to build strength or a rehabilitation program for injury recovery.

Background Sensorimotor exercises (SE) are evident to enhance neuromuscular activity of the trunk muscles (TM). However, it is unclear if an additional unexpected perturbation leads to higher muscular ...

Our results demonstrated that recruitment of the posterior muscle chain during extension exercises at 60% 1-RM was influenced by the body part that was extended, but not by the type of contraction ...