Manual Therapy: Art or Science? While the current main limitation of Manual Therapy is the production of predominantly short-term responses, these observations are primarily based on studies that have investigated the effectiveness of individual techniques. However, we know that the…
Long term effects of cervical thrust versus thoracic thrust manipulation in patients with chronic mechanical neck pain: Double blinded randomized clinical trial. Numeric pain rating scale (NPRS), and Neck Disability Index (NDI) were (P<0.05) improved in the both MCM and…
Convergent neural representations of experimentally-induced acute pain in healthy volunteers: A large-scale fMRI meta-analysis We analyzed these experiments using Activation Likelihood Estimation with rigorous type I error control (voxel height p < 0.001, cluster p < 0.05 FWE-corrected) and found…
A 2-yr, School-Based Resistance Exercise Pilot Program Increases Bone Accrual in Adolescent Girls
I Want to Hold Your Hand (to Ease the Pain)“López-Solà believes there is a strong central component to the phenomenon of handholding analgesia.“It’s hard to say conclusively whether or not the results are driven in part by peripheral input. However,…
This study shows that type II DM is associated with decreased paraspinal muscle CSA, but this finding was specific to the longissimus muscle. Our findings suggest that metabolic factors may play an important role in the maintenance of paraspinal muscle…
Stress and the brain-gut axis in functional and chronic-inflammatory gastrointestinal diseases: A transdisciplinary challenge•Psychological stress plays a broad role in the brain-gut axis and modulates visceral sensorimotor functions.•Psychological stress contributes to the pathophysiology of functional and chronic-inflammatory gastrointestinal conditions.•Stress plays…
U.S. Physician Recommendations to Their Patients About the Use of Complementary Health Approaches.” Massage therapy was the most commonly recommended CHA (30.4%), followed by chiropractic/osteopathic manipulation (27.1%), herbs/nonvitamin supplements (26.5%), yoga (25.6%), and acupuncture (22.4%). The most commonly recommended CHAs…
Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation Reduces Movement‐Evoked Pain and Fatigue: A Randomized, Controlled TrialAmong women who had FM and were on a stable medication regimen, 4 weeks of active TENS use compared to placebo TENS or no TENS resulted in a…
A Neuroscience Perspective of Physical Treatment of Headache and Neck Pain” The most prevalent primary headaches tension-type headache and migraine are frequently associated with neck pain. A wide variety of treatment options is available for people with headache and neck…