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Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 2021 Background: Chronic low back pain (CLBP) is a frequent cause of disability and it represents a medical, social and economic burden globally. Therefore, we assessed effectiveness of osteopathic interventions in the management of NS-CLBP for pain and ...
Fulvio Dal Farra +3 more
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Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy Potentiates Motor Cortical Plasticity [PDF]
The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, 2018 Osteopathic manipulative therapy (OMTh; manipulative care provided by foreign-trained osteopaths) is effective in managing pain caused by a variety of clinical conditions. Nevertheless, the physiologic mechanisms at the basis of the clinical improvement are poorly understood.To investigate the effects of OMTh, muscle stretching, and soft touch ...
Ponzo V. +5 more
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Clinics and Practice, 2023 Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death globally. Morbidity and disability related to non-fatal events are increasing exponentially.
Bruno Bordoni, Allan Escher
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An Investigation Into the Electrical Activity of Tender, Resting Paraspinal Muscles Using Surface Electromyography: A Pilot Study [PDF]
, 1988 Abnormal resting paraspinal muscle activity has been claimed to be responsible for changes in spinal tissue texture which are detectible by manual palpation.
Hubbard, A, Fryer, Gary, Ball, Kevin
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Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2022 Background Despite controversy regarding its validity and clinical usefulness, manual examination findings still have an important role for manipulative therapies. As an example, somatic dysfunction (SD) remains central to osteopathic practice.This study
Lorenzo Arcuri +5 more
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Osteopathic manipulative treatment for pneumonia [PDF]
Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care, 2010 The pneumonias due to infection continue to be a meaningful threat to the health and viability of persons, particularly those in high risk groups: children, the aged and the debilitated. Noll and colleagues provide us with the results of a well-designed and well-executed multi-institutional controlled clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of ...
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BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2017 Background Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) of the sphenopalatine ganglion (SPG) is used empirically for the treatment of rhinitis and snoring and is thought to increase pharyngeal stability.
Olivier Jacq +3 more
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Journal of Osteopathic Medicine, 2017 Abstract Context: Interest in osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) among first- and second-year osteopathic medical students typically declines toward the end of the second year of medical school. An osteopathic philosophy and manipulation enhancement (OPME) program was implemented for osteopathic medical students ...
Mikhail, Volokitin +1 more
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Post-sternotomy pain syndrome following cardiac surgery. case report [PDF]
, 2017 Over 2 million people undergo sternotomy worldwide for heart surgery each year, and many develop post-sternotomy pain syndrome (PSPS) which persists in the anterior thorax.
Bordoni, Bruno +4 more
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Acute electromyographic responses of deep thoracic paraspinal muscles to spinal manual therapy interventions. An experimental, randomized cross-over study [PDF]
, 2017 This single group, randomized, cross-over study explored whether manual therapy alters motor tone of deep thoracic back muscles by examining resting electromyographic activity (EMG) after 2 types of manual therapy and a sham control intervention.
Bird, M +3 more
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