[PDF] Top 20 Effect of spinal manipulation on sensorimotor functions in back pain patients: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

... that patients with chronic LBP had a decreased accuracy of lumbo-pelvic repositioning compared to pain-free con- trols ...[62-65]. Pain-free controls have a repositioning error between 1-2 degrees, ... See full document

... for back pain patients [9,13], both of which were designed to support individualised patient-practitioner interactions and active patient in- volvement in strategies for longer term change ... See full document

... in patients with physically debilitating conditions such as multiple sclerosis [20], fibromyalgia [21], arthritis [22], and chronic pain ...[23]. Randomised controlled trials in pain ... See full document

... STarT Back Trial protocol [17] sample size was calculated on basis of the RMDQ as the primary out- come ...this study, we wanted to mirror the UK study; therefore, we used the same RMDQ ... See full document

... activity, patients can experience severe pain and fatigue, which may restrict social life as well as physical and daily life activities [4, ...Furthermore, patients with RA have a reduced ... See full document

... data. Patients will be followed up to 28 days after ...the patients’ electronic medical records: age, ethnicity, gender, patients’ type (medical/surgi- cal), co-comorbidities, sites and pathogens of ... See full document

... the study should be ...isolated effect of the VNS ...of patients may hamper the results including the explorative secondary outcomes; however, we eliminate the inter- individual variability because ... See full document

... the trial was pain level. Pain was scored with a 10-cm ...of patients that stayed below a level of clinically acceptable pain (2 point differ- ence from the symptomatic phase baseline ... See full document

... reduced pain by 30% in the short ...follow-up study of patients who were still on OM 10 years after comple- tion of a multidisciplinary pain management programme reported that those ... See full document

... low back pain there is evidence of impaired motor functioning of specific trunk ...protective effect to the spine ...in patients with low back ...with back pain [24, 25] ... See full document

... low back pain remains unclear, it is now widely accepted that effective treatment for low back pain requires consideration of the psychological and behavioural ...low back pain ... See full document

... small-to-moderate effect [15–17]. One study assessed antibiotic treatment as a new treatment for selected patients with persistent LBP and type I MCs at the level of a previously herniated ... See full document

... the functions, or dysfunctions, of key ele- ments involved in any given task ...chronic pain on individual elements, but rather to examine the dynamic strategies adopted by patients with CNLBP to ... See full document

... The outcome assessors are physical therapists of the MUMC + . The performance measures and strength assessments are part of their routine tasks and no special training prior to the study was needed. The purpose ... See full document

... reducing pain and disability in adolescents with LBP, but larger, high quality trials are ...although spinal ma- nipulative therapy (SMT) is commonly used for children with spine conditions [21], no ... See full document

... the spinal anaesthesia group and 58% in the general anaesthesia group (Zwaans WA, van Kuijk SM, le Mair LH, van Kleef M, Scheltinga MR, Roumen RM – unpublished ...190 patients is calculated to demonstrate a ... See full document

... UK trial sites (see Table ...limb pain/disability. However, patients were excluded if they met one, or more, of the following criteria: (a) aged <18 yrs at the time of screening; (b) the patient ... See full document

... on pain severity for this ...all study outcomes at the conclu- sion of the ...that pain does not decrease, but function, gait, and QOL ...that pain decreases over time, but gait symmetry does ... See full document

... to patients with back pain (The Back Book) has been shown to be effective in promoting positive beliefs and contributing to improved clinical outcomes ...and pain are chal- lenged, the ... See full document

... of patients were allocated completely at random, whilst two-thirds were allocated according to the minimisation ...of randomised permuted blocks of nine ... See full document