Jo Armour Smith
Chapman University
35 Papers
108 Citations
Jo Armour Smith is an academic researcher from Chapman University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Low back pain. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 28 publications. Previous affiliations of Jo Armour Smith include American Physical Therapy Association & University of Southern California.
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Papers
Risk Factors Associated With Low Back Pain in Golfers: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis:
TL;DR: Individual demographic and anthropometric characteristics may be associated with low back pain, but this does not support a relationship between swing characteristics and the development of golf-related pain.
The Influence of Hip Strength on Lower-Limb, Pelvis, and Trunk Kinematics and Coordination Patterns During Walking and Hopping in Healthy Women
TL;DR: In the absence of pain or pathology, poor hip muscle performance does not affect peak hip or knee joint kinematics in young women, but is associated with significantly different lower-limb and trunk/pelvis coordination during weight-bearing dynamic tasks.
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Physiotherapy exercise programmes: Are instructional exercise sheets effective?
TL;DR: The study showed that older adult in-patients do not remember physiotherapy exercises effectively after a single teaching session and that their memory is not significantly improved by provision of an exercise sheet.
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Altered Multifidus Recruitment During Walking in Young Asymptomatic Individuals With a History of Low Back Pain
Jo Armour Smith,Kornelia Kulig +1 more
TL;DR: Even between symptomatic episodes, young individuals with a history of low back pain demonstrated altered recruitment of the deep fibers of the lumbar multifidus in response to changing locomotor speed during walking turns.
Trunk Coordination in Dancers and Nondancers
TL;DR: Dancers had lower intersegmental coordination variability than nondancers for LE sagittal, frontal, and transverse plane couplings, and sagittal plane trunk couplings and postural control may be important factors to investigate in skilled athletes.