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Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 1983
Spinal manipulative therapy is growing in popularity and acceptance, as judged by the increasing number of practitioners in physical therapy and medicine and by the results of clinical trials. Manipulation is the skilled, gentle, passive movement of a joint (or spinal segment) either within or beyond its active range of motion. This definition is broad
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Spinal manipulative therapy is growing in popularity and acceptance, as judged by the increasing number of practitioners in physical therapy and medicine and by the results of clinical trials. Manipulation is the skilled, gentle, passive movement of a joint (or spinal segment) either within or beyond its active range of motion. This definition is broad
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Spinal Manipulative Therapy for Low Back Pain
Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2003Growing interest in complementary and alternative medicine in the United States has been paralleled by increased use of spinal manipulative therapy in an attempt to manage symptoms of low back pain, spinal stenosis, and spondylolisthesis. Chiropractors have been the main practitioners of spinal manipulative therapy, with osteopaths and physical ...
Rand, Swenson, Scott, Haldeman
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Biomechanics of spinal manipulative therapy
The Spine Journal, 2001Modern scientific investigations into spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) began in 1975. Conditions often treated include acute and chronic low back pain, radicular pain, neck pain, and some forms of headache. The field of spinal manipulation has often been treated by the literature, incorrectly, as being homogeneous. Much of the confusion regarding this
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Independent Nurse, 2006
Both chiropractic and osteopathy involve spinal manipulation. Professor Edzard Ernst scrutinises the evidence for these interventions
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Both chiropractic and osteopathy involve spinal manipulation. Professor Edzard Ernst scrutinises the evidence for these interventions
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Forces Exerted During Spinal Manipulative Therapy
Spine, 1993Spinal manipulative therapy has been widely recognized in the medical fields as a conservative treatment modality for spinal dysfunction and pain. Spinal manipulative therapy consists of an application of a thrusting force on a specific part of the spine in a well-defined direction.
W, Herzog +4 more
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Spinal Manipulative Therapy A Status Report
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 1983Spinal manipulative therapy is one of the most commonly used treatments for patients with low back pain. It is both a manual diagnostic and a treatment method. Manual diagnosis includes the palpation of vertebral position, vertebral motion, joint play, end feel, soft tissue texture changes, and muscle contracture.
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SPINAL DISPLACEMENT DURING THORACIC SPINAL MANIPULATIVE THERAPY
Journal of Musculoskeletal Research, 2019Background: Vertebrae are linked together with facet and intervertebral joints. The application of a force to a spinal segment therefore impact adjacent areas of the spine. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the posteroanterior (PA) displacement of the thoracocervical spine during the application of thoracic PA mobilization. Methods: Forty-one
Adit Chiradejnant, Sirilak Jungrungsakul
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Thoracic Epidural Hematoma After Spinal Manipulation Therapy
Journal of Spinal Disorders, 1999Posttraumatic spinal epidural hematoma is an unusual pathology. The authors report the case of a 64-year-old woman who experienced thoracic epidural hematoma during a session of spinal manipulation therapy (SMT). In the literature, such an event has been reported previously only twice.
A. Ruelle, R. Datti, PISANI, ROBERTO
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Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, 2006
The objective of this study was to assess whether tibiofemoral joint manipulation is as effective as sacroiliac (SI) joint manipulation in increasing quadriceps muscle strength.Twenty subjects were divided into two groups of 10. After all base measurements of the maximum voluntary force of the quadriceps muscles were taken, subjects in group A received
Bernd, Hillermann +3 more
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The objective of this study was to assess whether tibiofemoral joint manipulation is as effective as sacroiliac (SI) joint manipulation in increasing quadriceps muscle strength.Twenty subjects were divided into two groups of 10. After all base measurements of the maximum voluntary force of the quadriceps muscles were taken, subjects in group A received
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Spinal manipulative therapy in sports medicine.
Clinics in sports medicine, 1986Spinal manipulation or manual therapy is becoming an increasingly popular method of treating athletes with spinal problems. The primary theoretic basis for the claimed beneficial results of manipulation is the restoration of motion with subsequent effect on ligamentous adhesions, muscle spasm, disk nutrition, and central nervous system endorphin ...
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