Manual Therapy
Volume 9, Issue 4 , Pages 203-210 , November 2004

Anatomical relationships between selected segmental muscles of the lumbar spine in the context of multi-planar segmental motion: a preliminary investigation

Received 22 May 2003 ,Revised 14 January 2004 ,Accepted 8 July 2004.

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Manual Therapy
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