PONE-D-24-37905Studies on the hysteresis of trunk muscles - muscular specificities must be taken into accountPLOS ONE

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Reviewer #1: Dear Editor

Thank you for the opportunity to review this manuscript. There are some specific comments:

Introduction

- Please give a reason for the particular research design in the introduction.

Methods

- The steps to derive the final sample from the initial population have not been described.

- Inclusion and exclusion criteria are not clear. Were people with hip region surgery, lumbar and/ or hip arthritis or joint inflammation, opioid analgesia, or corticosteroid intervention for pain included?

- How is the sample size determined?

- What organization or institution was the data (used in this study) for?

- Provide some references for "Investigation Procedure"

- Mention the company and country of the manufacturer of EMG

- It is mentioned in the text that "The electrode placement followed international recommendations (13, 14)."However, the cited references did not explain the location of the electrodes for the iliocostalis, multifidus, and longissimus muscles. These are deep muscles and fine-wire EMG is needed.

Discussion

- Discuss the limitations of the study, taking into account sources of potential bias or imprecision.

- Lines 338-340: "Specifically, our study provided experimental evidence supporting the proposed functional properties of the MF as a global stabilizing muscle". In this sentence, the results are generally generalized. The results of this study cannot be generalized to populations such as patients with low back pain. Rewrite the sentence according to the target population. However, in my opinion, considering that the power calculation was not done and the sample size was low, the results cannot be generalized at all.

Reviewer #2: The manuscript aimed to investigate how the activation of trunk muscles is altered under isometric conditions with continuously changing load demands.The present study demonstrated that hysteresis behavior was detectable in all examined trunk muscles. I think that this result will make important contributions to the literature.

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Reviewer #1: Yes: Shabnam ShahAli

Reviewer #2: No

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Studies on the hysteresis of trunk muscles - muscular specificities must be taken into account

PONE-D-24-37905R1

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