OBJECTIVE: To identify standardized clinical measures for lumbopelvic motor control and movement quality in adults with low back pain (LBP) and classify the components assessed using the recently developed Motor Control five were composite. The majority assessed the motor control function ‘control of simple voluntary movements’, with other functions less frequently represented (e.g. ‘involuntary movement reaction functions’, 6%; ‘proprioceptive functions’, 0%). Measures primarily captured the movement quality domains accuracy (65%) and stability (65%), whereas variability, speed, adaptability, flexibility, and smoothness were rarely addressed (6-21%). CONCLUSION: Current standardized clinical measures focus on evaluating the control of simple voluntary movements and capture only a limited subset of motor control and movement quality constructs. Substantial conceptual and measurement gaps remain. Targeted development of measures addressing underrepresented constructs may support, among other purposes, more accurate subgrouping in LBP.
Pflügler et al. (Tue,) studied this question.