Manipulative Therapy
Is manipulative therapy more effective than sham manipulation in adults?: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... manipulation, manipulative therapy, high velocity thrust, chiropractic manipulation, osteopathic manipu- lation, musculoskeletal manipulation), b) comparison (placebo, sham treatment, sham manipulation and ...
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Spinal manipulative therapy versus Graston Technique in the treatment of non-specific thoracic spine pain: Design of a randomised controlled trial
... spinal manipulative therapy on thoracic spinal pain ...Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) was compared to a placebo group receiving non functional ultrasound in a small trial consisting of 30 ...
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The effects of a single session of lumbar spinal manipulative therapy in terms of physical performance test symmetry in asymptomatic athletes: a single blinded, randomised controlled study
... Figure 5 Visual representation of total symmetry values from both groups. Box-plot: the small black lines represent the interquartile, superior and inferior limit; the blue box represents the minimal and maximal values; ...
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Chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy for cervicogenic headache: a single blinded, placebo, randomized controlled trial
... spinal manipulative therapy and the placebo ...spinal manipulative therapy group at all time points, while it improved at 6 and 12 months’ follow-up in the placebo ...
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The effect of spinal manipulative therapy on experimentally induced pain: a systematic literature review
... spinal manipulative therapy Although back pain is common and frequently distressing, and many therapies have arisen to treat it, musculoskeletal pain remains difficult to diagnose and ...nipulative ...
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Optimizing treatment protocols for spinal manipulative therapy: study protocol for a randomized trial
... Background: Low back pain is a common and costly condition. Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) is a treatment supported in some guidelines, although most clinical trials examining SMT report small effect ...
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Short term treatment versus long term management of neck and back disability in older adults utilizing spinal manipulative therapy and supervised exercise: a parallel-group randomized clinical trial evaluating relative effectiveness and harms
... spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) in the general population [16,21], there is a limited, yet growing body of evidence suggesting effectiveness of SMT for back- related disability in older adults ...
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The effect of spinal manipulative therapy on heart rate variability and pain in patients with chronic neck pain: a randomized controlled trial
... The effect of spinal manipulative therapy on heart rate variability and pain in patients with chronic neck pain: a randomized controlled trial Anders Galaasen Bakken1*, Iben Axén1, Andre[r] ...
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Spinal manipulative therapy, Graston technique® and placebo for non-specific thoracic spine pain: a randomised controlled trial
... Thoracic spinal pain is common with most occupational groups having 1-year prevalence around 30 % [1]. Com- monly used treatment options for non-specific thoracic spine pain include manual therapies such as massage, ...
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Manipulative therapy and/or NSAIDs for acute low back pain: design of a randomized controlled trial [ACTRN012605000036617]
... spinal manipulative therapy according to a treatment algorithm developed by the researchers based on the views of expert clinicians and researchers in the field (Additional file 1) ...
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Manipulative therapy in addition to usual medical care accelerates recovery of shoulder complaints at higher costs: economic outcomes of a randomized trial
... compression, presence of specific rheumatic disorders, presence of dementia or other severe psychiatric, emo- tional or behavioural disorders, shoulder disorders due to general internal thoracic and abdominal pathology ...
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RESEARCH ARTICLE Comparison of conservative exercise therapy with and without Maitland Thoracic Manipulative therapy in patients with subacromial pain: Clinical trial
... thoracic manipulative therapy included 1 non-thrust mobilisation and 3 different thrust manipulation techniques directed at thoracic spine and exercise therapy including hot or cold pack, mobility ...
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Spinal manipulative therapy and exercise for older adults with chronic low back pain: a randomized clinical trial
... Recent systematic reviews have concluded there is evi- dence to support the use of spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) and exercise as non-pharmacologic treatment op- tions for chronic LBP [11, 12]. Further, ...
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Potential treatment effect modifiers for manipulative therapy for children complaining of spinal pain.Secondary analyses of a randomised controlled trial
... adding manipulative ther- apy to a standard treatment of advice, exercises and soft tissue treatment in Danish school children aged 9–15 years who report spinal pain ...include manipulative therapy ...
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Survey based investigation into general practitioner referral patterns for spinal manipulative therapy
... LBP is a commonly experienced symptom, which ap- proximately 38% of adults will have in any one year [8]. Of these, 1 in 4 LBP sufferers experience significantly disabling symptoms resulting in a considerable cost to ...
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The Modernisation of Manipulative Therapy
... The physiotherapy profession as a whole has the vital (and difficult) clinical role of helping to get people mov- ing following a wide variety of health-related “set-backs”. In order to achieve this goal it employs a ...
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Effect of chiropractic manipulative therapy on reaction time in special operations forces military personnel: a randomized controlled trial
... hands, arms, or legs. Improved and coordinated reactions and responses to specific stimuli can be vital during com- bat military operations and other activities by reducing cognitive processing time. Understanding ...
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Spinal Manipulative Therapy for Chronic Low-Back Pain An Update of a Cochrane Review
... Treatment effect was examined through meta-analyses, but these were conducted only if studies were thought to be clini- cally homogenous. Clinical homogeneity was defi ned a priori by setting, population, and comparison ...
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The effect of spinal manipulative therapy on spinal range of motion: a systematic literature review
... The lack of homogeneity in the various reports made a meta-analysis impractical. For example, different areas of the spine were studied, all of which have dif- ferent movement patterns. Concerning the cervical re- gion, ...
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The Effect of Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy Applied to the Lumbar Spine on Postural Stability: A Pilot Study
... Several limitations exist in the study design. Due to length of time taken to record data and administer intervention, testing was completed over a two day period. Subjects were randomly allocated into respective group ...
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