Patient’s Subjective Impression of Cervical Range of Motion: A Mixed-methods Approach There was a significant correlation between patient and therapist ratings of cervical spine mobility. Although patients experience restriction while moving and are impaired in specific activities, they adjust their…
Red Flags for Low Back Pain Are Not Always Really Red: A Prospective Evaluation of the Clinical Utility of Commonly Used Screening Questions for Low Back Pain While a positive response to a red flag question may indicate the presence…
Failure to Expand the Motor Unit Size to Compensate for Declining Motor Unit Numbers Distinguishes Sarcopenic From Non-Sarcopenic Older Men The results suggest that extensive motor unit remodelling occurs relatively early during ageing, exceeds the loss of muscle mass and…
Effects of Age and Weight on the Metabolic Activities of the Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar Spines as Measured by fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography in Healthy Males This study illustrated the ability of 18F-FDG PET to assess metabolic processes in the…
Diagnosis of Compressed Nerve Root in Lumbar Disc Herniation Patients by Surface Electromyography he logistic regression model developed in this study showed high diagnostic accuracy in detecting the compressed nerve root (L5 and S1) in these patients with LDH. #science…
Respiratory characteristics of individuals with non‐specific low back pain: A cross‐sectional study This study has direct implications among health‐care professionals, including physiotherapists, nurses, and physicians, who provide mental, social, and vocational measures to individuals with NS‐LBP. These professionals play a…
Sex Differences in the Presentation and Perception of Symptoms Among Young Patients With Myocardial Infarction: Evidence From the VIRGO Study (Variation in Recovery: Role of Gender on Outcomes of Young AMI Patients) The presentation of AMI symptoms was similar for…
Assessment of Cervical Stiffness in Axial Rotation Among Chronic Neck Pain Patients: A Trial in the Framework of a Non-Manipulative Osteopathic Management Stiffness characteristics of the cervical spine in axial rotation are prone to be altered in patients with neck…
Does Duration of Pain at Baseline Influence Clinical Outcomes of Low Back Pain Patients Managed on an Evidence-based Pathway? Patients with different durations of LBP at baseline improved on the NERBPP, supporting the recent modification to NICE guidelines. However, those…
Global Postural Reeducation in Patients With Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain: Cross-Over Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial These results within the crossed-over group confirm previous findings from an RCT with the same sample. Sequence of treatment (GPR-to-MT vs MT-to-GPR) does…