Age-related reduction of trunk muscle torque and prevalence of trunk sarcopenia in community-dwelling elderly: Validity of a portable trunk muscle torque measurement instrument and its application to a large sample cohort study

Lumbar spondylosis, lumbar spinal stenosis, knee pain, back muscle strength are associated with the locomotive syndrome: Rural population study in Japan

(2016) Daisuke Chiba et al.   JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC SCIENCE

Association of mechanical factors with medial knee osteoarthritis: A cross-sectional study from Matsudai Knee Osteoarthritis Survey

(2016) Go Omori et al.   JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC SCIENCE

Assessment of Lower Limb Muscle Strength and Power Using Hand-Held and Fixed Dynamometry: A Reliability and Validity Study

(2015) Benjamin F. Mentiplay et al.   PLoS One

Sarcopenia and falls in community-dwelling elderly subjects in Japan: Defining sarcopenia according to criteria of the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People

(2014) Yoshimi Tanimoto et al.   ARCHIVES OF GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS

Association between roentgenographic findings of the cervical spine and neck symptoms in a Japanese community population

(2014) Gentaro Kumagai et al.   JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC SCIENCE

Prevalence of site-specific thigh sarcopenia in Japanese men and women

(2013) Takashi Abe et al.   AGE

Age-related site-specific muscle wasting of upper and lower extremities and trunk in Japanese men and women

(2013) Takashi Abe et al.   AGE

Skeletal muscle atrophy during short-term disuse: Implications for age-related sarcopenia

(2013) Benjamin T. Wall et al.   AGEING RESEARCH REVIEWS

Effect of β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HMB) on lean body mass during 10 days of bed rest in older adults

(2013) Nicolaas E.P. Deutz et al.   CLINICAL NUTRITION

Influence of spinal sagittal alignment, body balance, muscle strength, and physical ability on falling of middle-aged and elderly males

(2013) Shiro Imagama et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Age-related skeletal muscle mass loss and physical performance in Taiwan: Implications to diagnostic strategy of sarcopenia in Asia

(2013) Li-Kuo Liu et al.   Geriatrics & Gerontology International

Serum hyaluronan levels increase with the total number of osteoarthritic joints and are strongly associated with the presence of knee and finger osteoarthritis

(2013) Eiji Sasaki et al.   INTERNATIONAL ORTHOPAEDICS

Quadriceps muscle strength and its relationship to radiographic knee osteoarthritis in Japanese elderly

(2013) Go Omori et al.   JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC SCIENCE

Revision Spinal Fusion in Patients Older Than 75

(2013) Michael S. Chang et al.   SPINE

The early changes in trunk muscle strength and disability following lumbar spine fusion

(2012) Sami Tarnanen et al.   DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION

Impact of spinal imbalance and back muscle strength on locomotive syndrome in community-living elderly people

(2012) Kenichi Hirano et al.   JOURNAL OF ORTHOPAEDIC SCIENCE

Simple Foot Tapping Test as a Quantitative Objective Assessment of Cervical Myelopathy

(2011) Takuya Numasawa et al.   SPINE

Sarcopenia: European consensus on definition and diagnosis: Report of the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People

(2010) A. J. Cruz-Jentoft et al.   AGE AND AGEING

Back muscle strength and spinal mobility are predictors of quality of life in middle-aged and elderly males

(2010) Shiro Imagama et al.   EUROPEAN SPINE JOURNAL

Age-associated alterations of the neuromuscular junction

(2010) Youngmok C. Jang et al.   EXPERIMENTAL GERONTOLOGY

Evaluation of the posture and muscular strength of the trunk and inferior members of patients with chronic lumbar pain

(2010) Abdelmoneem Yahia et al.   JOINT BONE SPINE

Statistical evaluation of biomedical studies

(2010) G.L. Pearce et al.   OSTEOARTHRITIS AND CARTILAGE

Relationships between falls, spinal curvature, spinal mobility and back extensor strength in elderly people

(2009) Yuji Kasukawa et al.   JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL METABOLISM

Prevalence of Sarcopenia Estimated Using a Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis Prediction Equation in Community-Dwelling Elderly People in Taiwan

(2008) Meng-Yueh Chien et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN GERIATRICS SOCIETY