Where the presenter has given consent, slides will be made available upon request. Contact: events@physiotherapy.asn.au. Magnetic resonance imaging assessment of regional abdominal muscle function in elite Australian Football League players with and without low back pain Hides, J; Hughes, B; Stanton, W Changes in the motor control of trunk muscles have been identified in people with low back pain including elite football players. Previous research has found functional differences in the anatomical regions of abdominal muscles; however, this has not been examined in football players with low back pain. The aim of this study was to investigate if the ability to draw-in the abdominal wall is altered among football players with low back pain, and to determine if there are functional differences between the middle and lower abdominal regions in participants with and without low back pain. Forty-three elite Australian Football League players were imaged using magnetic resonance im! aging as they drew in their abdominal walls, and the trunk cross-sectional area was measured in relaxed and contracted states. At the lower region, participants with low back pain (1.1%) reduced their trunk cross-sectional area to a lesser extent than those without low back pain (3.2%) (p=0.018). The results also showed that the draw-in of the abdominal wall was smaller in Region 1 (8.8%) compared to Region 2 (16.0%) and Region 3 (19.7%) (p less than 0.001). This study provides evidence of regional ...
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