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https://read.qxmd.com/read/26614439/from-the-outgoing-editor-in-chief
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EDITORIAL
Moshe Solomonow
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
February 2016: Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/25255887/a-novel-method-to-attain-sinusoidal-mechanical-responses-from-single-motor-units
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Massimiliano Gobbo, Jan Celichowski, Piotr Krutki, Hanna DrzymaƂa-Celichowska, Moshe Solomonow, Claudio Orizio
INTRODUCTION: The relationship between output force and motor command depends on the intrinsic dynamic responses of motor units (MUs), which can be characterized by evoking accurate sinusoidal force responses at different frequencies. In this study we sought to determine whether sinusoidal modulation of the stimulation rate of single MUs results in reliable sinusoidal force changes. METHODS: Single axons of rat ventral roots were stimulated electrically by changing the pulse rate sinusoidally at different frequency modulation (0...
January 2015: Muscle & Nerve
https://read.qxmd.com/read/23374668/from-the-editor-in-chief
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EDITORIAL
Moshe Solomonow
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
February 2013: Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/22464112/acute-repetitive-lumbar-syndrome-a-multi-component-insight-into-the-disorder
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Moshe Solomonow, Bing He Zhou, Yun Lu, Karen B King
PURPOSE: Repetitive Lumbar Injury (RLI) is common in individuals engaged in long term performance of repetitive occupational/sports activities with the spine. The triggering source of the disorder, tissues involved in the failure and biomechanical, neuromuscular, and biological processes active in the initiation and development of the disorder, are not known. The purpose is, therefore, to test, using in-vivo feline model and healthy human subjects, the hypothesis that RLI due to prolonged exposure to repetitive lumbar flexion-extension is triggered by an acute inflammation in the viscoelastic tissues and is characterized by lingering residual creep, pronounced changes in neuromuscular control and transient changes in lumbar stability...
April 2012: Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/21129830/time-dependent-spine-stability-the-wise-old-man-and-the-six-blind-elephants
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REVIEW
Moshe Solomonow
Spine stability of the behaving human in health or disorder is a complex, multi-factorial and time variable index. The major components of stability are the properties of the external load, passive viscoelastic tissues (ligaments, discs, facet capsules and dorso-lumbar fascia) combined with the properties of the active tissues (muscles and their sensory-motor control, co-activation and associated intra-abdominal pressure) as well as the pro-inflammatory status of the tissues. Each of the many components' contribution is time variable with dependence on the dose-duration of the work stimulus and the associated rest...
March 2011: Clinical Biomechanics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/20933478/high-frequency-loading-of-lumbar-ligaments-increases-proinflammatory-cytokines-expression-in-a-feline-model-of-repetitive-musculoskeletal-disorder
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarah E Pinski, Karen B King, Bradley S Davidson, Bing He Zhou, Yun Lu, Moshe Solomonow
BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Cumulative (repetitive) lumbar disorder is common in the workforce, and the associated epidemiology points out high risk for lifting heavy loads, performing many repetitions, and performing movements at high velocity. Experimental verification of viscoelastic tissue degradation and a neuromuscular disorder exist for cyclic work under heavy loads. Experimental validation for a disorder because of cyclic loads under high-velocity movement is missing. PURPOSE: Obtain experimental verification that high-velocity lumbar flexion-extension results in significant increase of proinflammatory cytokines in the viscoelastic tissues...
December 2010: Spine Journal: Official Journal of the North American Spine Society
https://read.qxmd.com/read/20336330/pro-inflammatory-cytokines-expression-increases-following-low-and-high-magnitude-cyclic-loading-of-lumbar-ligaments
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Peter D'Ambrosia, Karen King, Bradley Davidson, Bing He Zhou, Yun Lu, Moshe Solomonow
Repetitive or overuse disorders of the lumbar spine affect the lives of workers and athletes. We hypothesize that repetitive anterior lumbar flexion-extension under low or high load will result in significantly elevated pro-inflammatory cytokines expression several hours post-activity. High loads will exhibit significantly higher expression than low loads. Lumbar spine of in vivo feline was subjected to cyclic loading at 0.25 Hz for six 10-min periods with 10 min of rest in between. One group was subjected to a low peak load of 20 N, whereas the second group to a high peak load of 60 N...
August 2010: European Spine Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/19703727/high-magnitude-cyclic-load-triggers-inflammatory-response-in-lumbar-ligaments
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Karen King, Bradley Davidson, Bing He Zhou, Yun Lu, Moshe Solomonow
BACKGROUND: Cumulative trauma disorder is commonly reported by workers engaged in prolonged repetitive/cyclic occupational activities. Recent experimental evidence confirms that relatively short periods of cyclic lumbar flexion at high loads result in substantial creep of viscoelastic tissues, prolonged periods of its recovery to baseline together with a neuromuscular disorder and exposure to instability. The biochemical process associated with the creep and neuromuscular disorder are not well explored...
December 2009: Clinical Biomechanics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/19367420/motor-control-of-lumbar-instability-following-exposure-to-various-cyclic-load-magnitudes
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
AbdAllah Ben-Masaud, Deborah Solomonow, Bradley Davidson, Bing He Zhou, Yun Lu, Vikas Patel, Moshe Solomonow
The motor control system may compensate for lumbar instability following cyclic work with differential response to load magnitude. In vivo felines were exposed to a cumulative 1 h of cyclic work at 0.25 Hz. One group exposed to light whereas the second to heavy load while recording lumbar displacement and multifidus EMG during work and in single test cycles over 7 h rest post-work. Significant laxity and reduced reflexive EMG activity were evident immediately post-work in both groups. EMG and laxity recovered over 7 h rest in the group exposed to light load whereas in the group exposed to heavy load, motor control compensation was triggered within 1-2 h post-work...
July 2009: European Spine Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/19329050/ligaments-a-source-of-musculoskeletal-disorders
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REVIEW
Moshe Solomonow
The mechanical and neurological properties of ligaments are reviewed and updated with recent development from the perspective which evaluates their role as a source of neuromusculoskeletal disorders resulting from exposure to sports and occupational activities. Creep, tension-relaxation, hysteresis, sensitivity to strain rate and strain/load frequency were shown to result not only in mechanical functional degradation but also in the development of sensory-motor disorders with short- and long-term implication on function and disability...
April 2009: Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies
https://read.qxmd.com/read/19086067/neuromuscular-control-of-lumbar-instability-following-static-work-of-various-loads
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Brook Le, Bradley Davidson, Deborah Solomonow, Bing He Zhou, Yun Lu, Vikas Patel, Moshe Solomonow
Neuromuscular control of lumbar stability following exposure to prolonged static work, under low and high loads, was assessed in the in vivo feline model. Six sessions of 10 min work at 20N with 10 min between rest was compared to a group subjected to the same protocol but carrying high loads of 60N. Displacement and tension developed in the spine at the instant the multifidus muscles applied stabilizing contractions, and their amplitudes were obtained from their electromyogram (EMG). Significant (P < 0...
January 2009: Muscle & Nerve
https://read.qxmd.com/read/18755463/neuromuscular-neutral-zones-response-to-cyclic-lumbar-flexion
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Deborah Solomonow, Bradley Davidson, Bing He Zhou, Yun Lu, Vikas Patel, Moshe Solomonow
The in vivo lumbar spine of the anaesthetized feline was subjected to passive cyclic anterior flexion-extension at 0.25 Hz and 40 N peak load for cumulative 60 min duration. Displacement (or displacement neuromuscular neutral zones-DNNZ) and tension (or tension neuromuscular neutral zones-TNNZ) at which reflexive EMG activity from the multifidi muscles was initiated and terminated were recorded, for single-test cycles, before and for 7h after cyclic loading. Displacement and tension NNZs increased significantly after loading...
September 18, 2008: Journal of Biomechanics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/18670784/power-spectra-characteristics-associated-with-static-reflexive-activation-of-the-multifidus-muscle-in-feline-models
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Todor Arabadzhiev, Moshe Solomonow, Bing He Zhou, Nonna Dimitrova, George Dimitrov
The aim of the study was to track changes in the spectrum of electromyographic (EMG) signals recorded from the feline multifidus muscles during stretching of the supraspinous ligament. The ligaments were exposed to external 40 N-tension for six consecutive trials of 10-min duration. Two experimental groups were formed, according to the rest periods supplied (10 or 20 min). EMG signals were recorded intramuscularly from the right multifidus muscles. The EMG signals from each trial were split into segments. For each segment, a representative averaged motor unit potential (AvMUP) was determined...
November 2008: European Journal of Applied Physiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/18585787/muscle-joint-unit-transfer-function-derived-from-torque-and-surface-mechanomyogram-in-humans-using-different-stimulation-protocols
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Claudio Orizio, Moshe Solomonow, Bertrand Diemont, Massimiliano Gobbo
UNLABELLED: Torque and laser detected surface mechanomyogram (MMG) analysis after electrical stimulation of human tibialis anterior (TA) of 14 male subjects was aimed to: (a) obtain the dynamic responses of TA muscle-joint unit from a long (LP, about 1h) and short (SP, 12.5s) stimulation protocol; (b) compare the resulting transfer function parameters from the two signals. The sinusoidal amplitude modulation of a 30 Hz stimulation train (SST) changed the number of the recruited motor units, and hence the isometric torque and the TA surface position in the same fashion...
August 15, 2008: Journal of Neuroscience Methods
https://read.qxmd.com/read/18508342/frequency-of-cyclic-lumbar-loading-is-a-risk-factor-for-cumulative-trauma-disorder
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dawei Lu, Peter Le, Bradley Davidson, Bing He Zhou, Yun Lu, Vikas Patel, Moshe Solomonow
Epidemiologic studies indicate that repetitive (cyclic) occupational activities lead to a cumulative trauma disorder (CTD), and the frequency or velocity of the movement is one of the risk factors. Experimental neurophysiological evidence to confirm the epidemiology is not available. The response of the multifidus muscles to cyclic loading in anterior lumbar flexion-extension was assessed to test the hypothesis that high-frequency loading may induce an acute neuromuscular disorder leading to CTD. Two groups of feline preparations were subjected to cyclic loading with a peak of 20 N: one at 0...
July 2008: Muscle & Nerve
https://read.qxmd.com/read/18468744/neuromuscular-neutral-zones-response-to-static-lumbar-flexion-muscular-stability-compensator
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jimmy Youssef, Bradley Davidson, Bing He Zhou, Yun Lu, Vikas Patel, Moshe Solomonow
BACKGROUND: The impact of six sequential static loading and rest of the lumbar spine on the changes in the neuromuscular neutral zones and thereby on spine stability was assessed. METHODS: Six 10 min sessions of static load of a moderate level each spaced by 10 min rest were applied to the in vivo feline model. Test cycles of 0.25 Hz and at the same moderate peak load were applied before and every hour after the static loading sequence up to 7h. Load, displacement and electromyographic activity of the lumbar multifidi muscles were recorded throughout...
August 2008: Clinical Biomechanics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/17915600/neuromuscular-response-to-cyclic-lumbar-twisting
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Li Li, Nirav Patel, Deborah Solomonow, Peter Le, Heather Hoops, David Gerhardt, Kyle Johnson, Bing He Zhou, Yun Lu, Moshe Solomonow
OBJECTIVE: To study the influence of 10 min of cyclic twisting motion on abdominal and back muscle activities. BACKGROUND: Repetitive (cyclic) occupational activity was identified by many epidemiological reports to be a risk factor for the development of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Biomechanical and physiological confirmation, however, is lacking. METHODS: Trunk muscle electromyography (EMG) was recorded while participants performed a continuous 10-min maximum lumbar cyclic twisting to the left, and maximum isometric twist to the left and right sides was measured before and after the exercise...
October 2007: Human Factors
https://read.qxmd.com/read/17703955/interaction-of-viscoelastic-tissue-compliance-with-lumbar-muscles-during-passive-cyclic-flexion-extension
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Michael W Olson, Li Li, Moshe Solomonow
Human and animal models using electromyography (EMG) based methods have hypothesized that viscoelastic tissue properties becomes compromised by prolonged repetitive cyclic trunk flexion-extension which in turn influences muscular activation including the flexion-relaxation phenomenon. Empirical evidence to support this hypothesis, especially the development of viscoelastic tension-relaxation and its associated muscular response in passive cyclic activity in humans, is incomplete. The objective of this study was to examine the response of lumbar muscles to tension-relaxation development of the viscoelastic tissue during prolonged passive cyclic trunk flexion-extension...
February 2009: Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/17509738/short-rest-between-cyclic-flexion-periods-is-a-risk-factor-for-a-lumbar-disorder
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Heather Hoops, Bing-He Zhou, Yun Lu, Moshe Solomonow, Vikas Patel
BACKGROUND: The epidemiology identifies cyclic lumbar loading as a risk factor for cumulative trauma disorder. Experimental biomechanical and physiological confirmation is lacking. The objective of this study was to asses the impact of different rest durations applied between periods of cyclic loading on the development of an acute lumbar disorder which, if continued to be subjected to loading, may develop into a cumulative disorder. METHODS: Three groups of in vivo feline preparations were subjected to six sequential 10 min loading periods of cyclic lumbar flexion at 40 N with a frequency of 0...
August 2007: Clinical Biomechanics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/17426521/cyclic-load-magnitude-is-a-risk-factor-for-a-cumulative-lower-back-disorder
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Peter Le, Moshe Solomonow, Bing-He Zhou, Yun Lu, Vikas Patel
OBJECTIVE: Epidemiological data suggest that high loads lifted by workers engaged in static and cyclic daily activities may be a risk factor for low back disorder. Our previous research provided physiological and biomechanical validation of the epidemiological data for static load conditions. The objective of this report was to provide physiological and biomechanical experimental validation to the epidemiological data in cyclic (repetitive) load conditions. METHODS: Three groups of in vivo feline models were subjected to 3 cyclic load levels in a series of 6 periods of 10 minutes of work spaced by 10 minutes of rest followed by 7 hours of rest...
April 2007: Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
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