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Reliability of Rehabilitative Ultrasound Imaging of the Transversus Abdominis and Lumbar Multifidus Muscles
Authors:Shane L. Koppenhaver  Jeffrey J. Hebert  Julie M. Fritz  Eric C. Parent  Deydre S. Teyhen  John S. Magel
Affiliation:a College of Health, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
b Officer, United States Army
c Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, UT
d Department of Physical Therapy/Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
e US Army-Baylor University Doctoral Program in Physical Therapy, San Antonio, TX
Abstract:Koppenhaver SL, Hebert JJ, Fritz JM, Parent EC, Teyhen DS, Magel JS. Reliability of rehabilitative ultrasound imaging of the transversus abdominis and lumbar multifidus muscles.

Objectives

To evaluate the intraexaminer and interexaminer reliability of rehabilitative ultrasound imaging (RUSI) in obtaining thickness measurements of the transversus abdominis (TrA) and lumbar multifidus muscles at rest and during contractions.

Design

Single-group repeated-measures reliability study.

Setting

University and orthopedic physical therapy clinic.

Participants

A volunteer sample of adults (N=30) with current nonspecific low back pain (LBP) was examined by 2 clinicians with minimal RUSI experience.

Interventions

Not applicable.

Main Outcome Measures

Thickness measurements of the TrA and lumbar multifidus muscles at rest and during contractions were obtained by using RUSI during 2 sessions 1 to 3 days apart. Percent thickness change was calculated as thicknesscontracted-thicknessrest/thicknessrest. Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC) were used to estimate reliability.

Results

By using the mean of 2 measures, intraexaminer reliability point estimates (ICC3,2) ranged from 0.96 to 0.99 for same-day comparisons and from 0.87 to 0.98 for between-day comparisons. Interexaminer reliability estimates (ICC2,2) ranged from 0.88 to 0.94 for within-day comparisons and from 0.80 to 0.92 for between-day comparisons. Reliability estimates comparing measurements by the 2 examiners of the same image (ICC2,2) ranged from 0.96 to 0.98. Reliability estimates were lower for percent thickness change measures than the corresponding single thickness measures for all conditions.

Conclusions

RUSI thickness measurements of the TrA and lumbar multifidus muscles in patients with LBP, when based on the mean of 2 measures, are highly reliable when taken by a single examiner and adequately reliable when taken by different examiners.
Keywords:Abdominal muscles   Low back pain   Rehabilitation   Reproducibility of results   Ultrasonography
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