Mechanical Properties of Lumbar and Cervical Paravertebral Muscles in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis: A Case-Control Study.
Juan Luis Garrido-CastroI Concepción Aranda-ValeraJose Peña-AmaroAlfonso M GalisteoCristina González-NavasDaiana Priscila Rodrigues-de-SouzaSandra Alcaraz-ClarianaLourdes García-LuqueIago R Martínez SánchezClementina López MedinaEduardo Collantes-EstévezFrancisco Alburquerque-SendínPublished in: Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) (2021)
Mechanical properties of spinal muscles of axSpA patients differ from controls. Lumbar and cervical muscles exhibit greater linear elastic properties and lower viscoelastic properties, which are related with age, clinical and psychophysiological features of axSpA.