• Measuring Spinal Mobility Using an Inertial Measurement Unit System: A Validation Study in Axial Spondyloarthritis 

      Aranda-Valera, I. Concepción; Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio; Garrido Castro, Juan Luis; Gardiner, Philip V.; López Medina, Eloísa Clementina; Machado, Pedro M.; Condell, Joan; Connolly, James; Williams, Jonathan M.; Muñoz-Esquivel, Karla; O’Dwyer, Tom; Castro Villegas, María del Carmen; González-Navas, Cristina; Collantes Estévez, Eduardo; iMaxSpA Study Group (MDPI, 2020)
      Portable inertial measurement units (IMUs) are beginning to be used in human motion analysis. These devices can be useful for the evaluation of spinal mobility in individuals with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA). The ...
    • Mechanical Properties of Lumbar and Cervical Paravertebral Muscles in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis: A Case-Control Study 

      Garrido Castro, Juan Luis; Aranda-Valera, I. Concepción; Peña Amaro, J.; Martínez Galisteo, A.; González-Navas, Cristina; Rodrigues-de-Souza, Daiana Priscila; Alcaraz-Clariana, Sandra; García-Luque, Lourdes; Martínez Sánchez, Iago R.; López Medina, Eloísa Clementina; Collantes Estévez, Eduardo; Alburquerque Sendín, Francisco (MDPI, 2021)
      Background: Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) affects spinal muscles, due to inflammation and structural damage. The mechanical properties of the muscles, such as tone or stiffness, could be altered in axSpA. The aim of this ...
    • Paravertebral Muscle Mechanical Properties in Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis or Low Back Pain: A Case-Control Study 

      Alcaraz-Clariana, Sandra; García-Luque, Lourdes; Garrido Castro, Juan Luis; Aranda-Valera, I. Concepción; Ladehesa-Pineda, Lourdes; Puche-Larrubia, María Ángeles; Carmona-Pérez, Cristina; Rodrigues-de-Souza, Daiana Priscila; Alburquerque Sendín, Francisco (MDPI, 2021)
      Different musculoskeletal disorders are a source of pain in the spinal region; most of them can be divided into mechanical, such as low back pain (LBP), or inflammatory origins, as is the case of axial spondyloarthritis ...
    • Patients with Axial Spondyloarthritis Show an Altered Flexion/Relaxation Phenomenon 

      Aranda-Valera, I. Concepción; Garrido Castro, Juan Luis; Martínez Galisteo, A.; Peña Amaro, J.; González-Navas, Cristina; Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio; Jiménez Reina, L.; Collantes Estévez, Eduardo; López Medina, Eloísa Clementina (MDPI, 2021)
      Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a chronic rheumatic disease characterized by the presence of inflammatory back pain. In patients with chronic low back pain, the lumbar flexion relaxation phenomenon measured by surface ...