Trait Sensitivity, Anxiety, and Personality Are Predictive of Central Sensitization Symptoms in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain“Positive correlations were found between central sensitization inventory (CSI) scores and sensory hypersensitivity profiles and trait anxiety. CSI score increases could be predicted…
Relating the Diers formetric measurements with the subjective severity of acute and chronic low back pain“Different patterns between female and male subjects were found. Age, coronal and sagittal imbalance correlated with LBP in female subjects, whereas pelvic inclination, the trunk…
Reasons why osteoarthritis predicts mortality: path analysis within a Cox proportional hazards model The analysis indicates that encouraging people to walk and ‘get out and about’ in addition to targeting OA could be protective against excessive mortality. The findings also…
Congratulations to DC PhD, Jill Hayden, for this publication in Cochrane! “We found moderate‐quality evidence that positive recovery expectations are strongly associated with better work participation (narrative synthesis: 21 studies; meta‐analysis: 12 studies, 4777 participants: odds ratio (OR) 2.43, 95%…
VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guideline: Diagnosis and Treatment of Low Back Pain In September 2017, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) approved the joint Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) for Diagnosis and Management of Low…
A systematic review of the evidence for the efficacy of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain in community-dwelling older adults There is limited evidence supporting the use of long-term opioid use in older people for chronic non-cancer pain and a lack…
Paradoxical relationship in sensorimotor system: Knee joint position sense absolute error and joint stiffness measures There was a paradoxical relationship between higher joint stiffness and worsened joint position sense. Potential reasons include sensory weighting within the sensorimotor system and thixotropic…
Autonomic Effects of Spinal Manipulative Therapy: Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled TrialsEighteen trials were included in this systematic review. Passive accessory intervertebral mobilization produced sympathoexcitation independently of the treated region (cervical, thoracic, or lumbar spine); although sustained natural apophyseal glides…
Mechanisms of exercise-induced preconditioning in skeletal muscles Endurance exercise training promotes numerous biochemical adaptations within skeletal muscle fibers culminating into a phenotype that is safeguarded against numerous perils including doxorubicin-induced myopathy and inactivity-induced muscle atrophy. This exercise-induced protection of skeletal…
Sudden gait perturbations elicit sex-specific neuromuscular trunk responses in persons with low back pain In this LBP population, abdominal muscle activation discriminated females from males. Specifically, females had higher activity of the rectus abdominis muscles and lower activation of the…