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ID 19982
  Title Reliability of movement control tests in the lumbar spine
URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-8-90
Journal BMC Musculoskel Disord. 2007 ;8(90):Online access only
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Abstract/Notes BACKGROUND: Movement control dysfunction [MCD] reduces active control of movements. Patients with MCD might form an important subgroup among patients with non specific low back pain. The diagnosis is based on the observation of active movements. Although widely used clinically, only a few studies have been performed to determine the test reliability. The aim of this study was to determine the inter- and intra-observer reliability of movement control dysfunction tests of the lumbar spine.

METHODS: We videoed patients performing a standardized test battery consisting of 10 active movement tests for motor control in 27 patients with non specific low back pain and 13 patients with other diagnoses but without back pain. Four physiotherapists independently rated test performances as correct or incorrect per observation, blinded to all other patient information and to each other. The study was conducted in a private physiotherapy outpatient practice in Reinach, Switzerland. Kappa coefficients, percentage agreements and confidence intervals for inter- and intra-rater results were calculated.

RESULTS: The kappa values for inter-tester reliability ranged between 0.24 - 0.71. Six tests out of ten showed a substantial reliability [k > 0.6]. Intra-tester reliability was between 0.51 - 0.96, all tests but one showed substantial reliability [k > 0.6].

CONCLUSION: Physiotherapists were able to reliably rate most of the tests in this series of motor control tasks as being performed correctly or not, by viewing films of patients with and without back pain performing the task.

This abstract is reproduced with the permission of the publisher; click on the above link for full text. PMID: 17850669
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