Mechanical stimulation shown to repair muscle “This work clearly demonstrates that mechanical forces are as important biological regulators as chemicals and genes, and it shows the immense potential of developing mechanotherapies to treat injury and disease,” said Wyss Institute Director…
Innovative Treatments for Back Pain “Innovation involves asking new questions, or taking new approaches to old questions. For a problem as old as back pain, one might expect innovations to be rare. That back pain has been the most burdensome…
The Accuracy of Locating Lumbar Vertebrae When Using Palpation Versus Ultrasonography This study found that ultrasonography provided more accurate identification of a lumbar spinal landmark when compared with palpation. In addition, our data suggest that ultrasonic imaging to identify spinal…
Corticomotor Control of Lumbar Multifidus Muscles Is Impaired in Chronic Low Back Pain: Concurrent Evidence From Ultrasound Imaging and Double-Pulse Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation These original findings support a plasticity of cortical maps controlling paravertebral muscles and likely including a different…
The Impact of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures in Clinical Practice for Pain: A Systematic Review Due to the poor quality, lack of generalisability and heterogeneity of these studies, it is not possible to provide a comprehensive understanding of how PROMs may…
Joint Mobilization and Manipulation for the Equine Athlete Joint mobilization and manipulation provide important diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for addressing musculoskeletal issues in veterinary medicine. Soft tissue and joint mobilization are used to assess the quality and quantity of joint…
The Quality of Placebos Used in Randomized, Controlled Trials of Lumbar and Pelvic Joint Thrust Manipulation-A Systematic Review Imperfect placebos are ubiquitous in clinical trials of LP-SMT, and few trials have assessed for successful subject blinding or balanced expectations of…
Does It Matter Which Exercise? A Randomized Control Trial of Exercise for Low Back Pain Consistent with prior evidence, a standardized mechanical assessment identified a large subgroup of LBP patients with a DP. Regardless of subjects’ direction of preference, the…
Explainer: what is pain and what is happening when we feel it? It may be old news (24h) but I would be remiss not to share with the group a new understanding and conversation about pain and its management in the…
Researchers Find Missing Link Between the Brain and Immune System “Kevin Lee, PhD, chairman of the UVA Department of Neuroscience, described his reaction to the discovery by Kipnis’ lab: “The first time these guys showed me the basic result, I…