Purpose Paraspinal muscle imaging is of growing interest related to improved phenotyping,
prognosis, and treatment of common spinal disorders. We reviewed issues related to …

Purpose Numerous studies have applied a variety of methods to assess paraspinal muscle
degeneration. However, the methodological differences in imaging evaluation may lead to …

Background Muscle atrophy and fatty infiltration of the lumbar extensors is associated with
LBP. Exercise-based rehabilitation targets strengthening these muscles, but few studies …

Purpose Increased fatty infiltration in paraspinal muscles has been recognized as a feature
of muscle quality loss in people with Low Back Pain (LBP) and is highly associated with the …

Background Morphological changes of the lumbar spine muscles are not well characterised
with ageing. To further the understanding of age-related degeneration of the lumbar spine …

The size, shape, and composition of paraspinal muscles have been widely reported in
disorders of the cervical and lumbar spine. Measures of size, shape, and composition have …

Objective To investigate the relationship between paraspinal and psoas muscle volumes
and acute osteoporotic or low-bone-mass compression fractures of the lumbar spine in …

Objective The paraspinal muscles have been extensively studied on axial lumbar magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) for better understanding of back pain; however, the acquisition of …

The accurate segmentation of the paraspinal muscle in Magnetic Resonance (MR) images
is a critical step in the automated analysis of lumbar diseases such as chronic low back pain …

Only a few previous studies have investigated paraspinal musculature (ie, multifidus (MF),
psoas major (PSM), erector spinae (ES)) in longitudinal, population-based settings. This …