Spinal manipulation
The risk associated with spinal manipulation: an overview of reviews
... As with all interventions, there are risks associated with SMT. Possible harmful outcomes of SMT in- cludes, but are not limited to, headache, radiating dis- comfort and fatigue [18], which are often transient, but also ...
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Short term modulation of trunk neuromuscular responses following spinal manipulation: a control group study
... targeted spinal segment (L3) were chosen mainly for technical purposes, namely to avoid any displacement of data acquisition ...No spinal manipulation, however, was ...
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Three-dimensional chiropractor-patient contact loads during side posture lumbar spinal manipulation: a pilot study
... thoracic manipulation using Tekscan pres- sure mats whereas other investigators [7-15] used Emed pressure sensors to measure pressure and convert it to ...during spinal manipulation using an inverse ...
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Increased multiaxial lumbar motion responses during multiple-impulse mechanical force manually assisted spinal manipulation
... The motion response of the spine is closely coupled to the frequency or the time history of the applied force [16]. When external mechanical forces are applied at or near the natural frequency of the spine, greater ...
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Spinal manipulation frequency and dosage effects on clinical and physiological outcomes: a scoping review
... investigating spinal manipulation dosage effects involved both human and animal research, and showed that varying thrust forces, or thrust durations can impact vertebral displacement, muscular response ...
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Does cervical lordosis change after spinal manipulation for non-specific neck pain? A prospective cohort study
... Methods: Posterior tangents of C2 and C6 were drawn on the lateral cervical fluoroscopic images of 29 patients with subacute/chronic non-specific neck pain and 30 healthy volunteers matched for age and gender, recruited ...
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Improvement of lower extremity electrodiagnostic findings following a trial of spinal manipulation and motion-based therapy
... [14-16]. Spinal manipulation was used as a primary modality in these ...of spinal manipula- tion using 102 patients with moderate-intensity visual analog scores (VAS) and radicular ...
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Dose–response of spinal manipulation for cervicogenic headache: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
... Spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) consists of the di- versified thrust maneuver as described by Peterson and Bergmann [35]. The need for SMT is assessed at each visit via patient progress and a manual ...
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Adverse events from spinal manipulation in the pregnant and postpartum periods: a critical review of the literature
... lumbar spinal manipulation [43] whereas the serious adverse events reported in the literature all occurred following cervical spinal manipulation either during pregnancy [20,21] or postpartum ...
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Original Article Clinical study on the treatment of sequestrated lumbar disk herniation by feng’s spinal manipulation
... Feng’s spinal manipulation [3] in the 1970s and proposed that slight displace- ment of a single or several vertebrae is the main pathologic change of lumbar disc hernia- tion, and disequilibrium between ...
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A randomised controlled trial of preventive spinal manipulation with and without a home exercise program for patients with chronic neck pain
... Overall spinal manipulation or spinal manipulation combined with exercises did not yield sig- nificant advantages when compared to the no treatment ...
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Peyton’s four-step approach for teaching complex spinal manipulation techniques – a prospective randomized trial
... of spinal manipulation re- quire high levels of sensory and motor coordination and confidence and should be taught by experienced profes- sionals ...teaching spinal manipulation such as ...
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Unravelling functional neurology: does spinal manipulation have an effect on the brain? - a systematic literature review
... which spinal manipulation was performed to any region of the spine, applied on either symptomatic or asymptomatic humans, and compared to a sham or to another type of ...with spinal pain ” ...
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Scoliosis treatment using spinal manipulation and the Pettibon Weighting System™: a summary of 3 atypical presentations
... Case presentation: Patient presentation, examination, intervention and outcomes are detailed for each case. The types of scoliosis presented here are left thoracic, idiopathic scoliosis after Harrington rod ...
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The regional effect of spinal manipulation on the pressure pain threshold in asymptomatic subjects: a systematic literature review
... ((spinal manipulation) AND (experimental pain)); ((spinal manipulative therapy OR spinal manipulation) AND ((experimental pain OR quantitative sensory testing OR pressure pain threshold ...
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Effect of spinal manipulation on sensorimotor functions in back pain patients: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
... amplitude spinal manipulation; Hz: Hertz; IA: Iowa; ...variable-amplitude spinal manipulation; MA: Massachusetts; MN: Minnesota; MS: Microsoft; N: Newton; NC: North Carolina; NCCAM: National ...
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Outcomes indicators and a risk classification system for spinal manipulation under anesthesia: a narrative review and proposal
... the spinal region involved, the location and extent of annular tearing, the de- gree of disc degeneration/desiccation, or the extent and duration of correlating clinical signs and symptoms may serve as ...
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Cost-effectiveness of spinal manipulation, exercise, and self-management for spinal pain using an individual participant data meta-analysis approach: a study protocol
... Combined analyses of economic data are rarely possible due to differences in resource utilization outcomes, costs and healthcare settings [56, 57]. Additionally, individual clinical trials rarely include a sufficient ...
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Does inter-vertebral range of motion increase after spinal manipulation? A prospective cohort study
... that manipulation can decrease pain and improve function and that this is probably associated with increased ...single manipulation could reduce asymmetry of passive regional cervical spine motion [11], ...
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Neuromechanical response to spinal manipulation therapy: effects of a constant rate of force application
... Spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) has been reported as a cost-effective therapy for spine related pain and is part of the therapeutic arsenal of numerous practitioners such as physiotherapists, ...
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