Neck pain imposes a considerable personal and socioeconomic burden—it is one of the top
five chronic pain conditions in terms of prevalence and years lost to disability—yet it receives …

The Orthopaedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) has an
ongoing effort to create evidence-based practice guidelines for orthopaedic physical therapy …

Background Spinal disorders affect millions of people worldwide, and can cause significant
disability and pain. The paraspinal muscles, located on either side of the spinal column, play …

Fat infiltration in skeletal muscle (also known as myosteatosis) is now recognized as a
distinct disease from sarcopenia and is directly related to declining muscle capacity. Hence …

Muscle fat infiltration (MFI) of the deep cervical spine extensors has been observed in
cervical spine conditions using time-consuming and rater-dependent manual techniques …

Background There is uncertainty regarding the clinical significance of findings on MRI in
patients with whiplash associated disorder (WAD) or nonspecific neck pain (NSNP) …

We present an accurate, fast and efficient method for segmentation and muscle mask
propagation in 3D freehand ultrasound data, towards accurate volume quantification. A …

Previous preliminary work mapped the distribution of neck muscle fat infiltration (MFI) in the
deep cervical extensor muscles (multifidus and semispinalis cervicis) in a small cohort of …

Purpose Fatty infiltration (FI) is a feature of degenerating muscle that predominates in the
low lumbar spine, associates with pain, and is confounded by age, spinal degeneration, and …

Purpose Fat infiltration (FI) of the deep neck extensor muscles has been shown to be
associated with poor outcomes in cervical injury, mechanical neck pain, and axial symptoms …