Showing papers in "Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics in 2015"

TL;DR: The intrarater and interrater evaluation of standing sagittal posture of the cervical spine and shoulders by photogrammetry was reliable and differences in postural angles between sexes between sexes were analyzed.

TL;DR: This systematic review describes case details from published articles that describe serious adverse events that have been reported to occur following SMT of the lumbopelvic region.

TL;DR: Performing a thorough history and examination to exclude anatomical or neurologic anomalies before applying any manual therapy may further reduce adverse events across all manual therapy professions.

TL;DR: Myofascial trigger points are a prevalent clinical entity, especially in patients with neck pain, and compelling evidence supports local mechanisms underlying MTrPs.

TL;DR: A higher per-capita supply of DCs was associated with higher utilization rates and showed a more favorable regard for DCs, while those who had a distant history of using a DC were older and more likely to be retired than the other groups.

TL;DR: This study showed that the preliminary algometry and rEMG recordings monitored a decrease in PPT and an increase in muscle tension in all cases of TrPs in each of the 3 types detected in people younger than 30 years.

TL;DR: The results suggest that including a single session of trigger point dry needling in the first week of a multimodal physical therapy approach may assist with faster increases in function in individuals with postoperative shoulder pain.

TL;DR: Patients with shoulder impingement syndrome who received 4 sessions of MWM exhibited significantly better outcomes for pain during shoulder flexion, pain-free range of shoulderflexion, maximal shoulder flexions, and maximal external rotation than those patients who were in the sham group.

TL;DR: This study showed that reduced maximum ranges of motion and absence of ES flexion-relaxation phenomenon were not useful to identify LBP patients in the absence of acute pain, however, these patients showed subtle alterations of their lumbopelvic motion and ES activity patterns, which may have important clinical implications.

TL;DR: Either the cluster or circuit protocol can be used to measure PPT in clinical or research setting and a difference of 160 kPa is considered sufficient to indicate a real difference between repeated measures of PPT regardless of protocol used for testing.

TL;DR: Evidence is shown that lumbar spine SNAGs had a short-term favorable effect on KA-R, pain, and function in patients with nonspecific low back pain, as well as pain, functional disability, and kinesiophobia.

TL;DR: The incidence of internal carotid artery dissection after cervical spine manipulation in patients who experience neck pain and its associated disorders is unknown and there are no epidemiologic studies that validate this hypothesis.

TL;DR: Among Medicare B beneficiaries aged 66 to 99 years with neck pain, incidence of vertebrobasilar stroke was extremely low and small differences in risk between patients who saw a chiropractor and those whosaw a primary care physician are probably not clinically significant.

TL;DR: Studies show that communication training for clinicians produces small effects in improving patients' satisfaction with care or reducing pain and disability in primary care and rehabilitation settings.

TL;DR: There are few studies evaluating the accuracy and reliability of infrared thermography for the diagnosis and assessment of myofascial trigger points (MTrPs), and of the few studies present, there is no agreement on skin temperature patterns in the presence of MTrPs.

TL;DR: The referred pain elicited by active trigger points in the lower extremity muscles contributed to pain symptoms in painful knee OA and a higher number of active TrPs was associated with higher intensity of ongoing knee pain.

TL;DR: This research provides new experimental evidence that neural mobilization produces an immediate widespread hypoalgesic effect vs placebo but neural gliding produces hypoAlgesic effects in more body sites than neural stretching.

TL;DR: For this group of female patients, pain and joint alignment were improved after a 10-day kinesiotape implementation in patients with hallux valgus, and the findings showed short-term decreased pain and disability in halluxvalgus deformity.

TL;DR: The current evidence shows that the addition of supervised progressive strength training does not provide further benefits over advice to continue normal physical activity for hand pain of variable duration, and clinic-based, supervised exercise may be more beneficial than home exercises with minimal improvements in pain and function.

TL;DR: The results of the present study indicate that isometric contraction of shoulder muscles caused an increase in the CMM thickness regardless of force direction, which was seen in both groups of healthy participants and patients with neck pain.

TL;DR: The described methodology was reliable for assessing regional spinal ROM across multiple spinal regions while providing the relative motions of different segments of the thoracolumbar spine.

TL;DR: This study showed that the patients with RASFI who received chiropractic MT plus rehabilitation showed significant short-term reduction in pain and the number of joint restrictions in the short- term but not disability when compared with rehabilitation alone.

TL;DR: Among patients with chronic whiplash, a neck-specific exercise intervention (with or without a behavioral approach) appears to improve NME and participants were more satisfied with intervention including neck- specific exercises than with the prescription of general exercise.

TL;DR: This study showed that CTM and lifestyle advice were superior to reducing symptoms of constipation and quality of life compared with lifestyle advice alone for patients with chronic constipation.

TL;DR: The addition of forward head posture correction to a functional restoration program seemed to positively affect disability, 3-dimensional spinal posture parameters, back and leg pain, and S1 nerve root function of patients with chronic discogenic lumbosacral radiculopathy.

TL;DR: The evidence regarding muscle fiber typing in back muscles is either inconclusive or shows little differences, and the most plausible evidence exists for differentiation in proportional fiber type area depending on sex.

TL;DR: High-velocity, low-amplitude spinal manipulation twice weekly for 5 weeks increases the SOD and GPx activities, and it is possible that changes in these enzymes might be related to the analgesic effect of HVLA spinal manipulation.

TL;DR: There are differences in morphology of the abdominal muscles in pregnant women vs nonpregnant controls, and the large effect sizes reported may provide the basis for future studies examining relationships between morphology, functional change, and back pain during pregnancy.

TL;DR: The results of the study point to the need for the application of suitable physiotherapy treatment to treat musculoskeletal disorders to compensate for the loss of trunk flexor muscle strength in children with improper posture.

TL;DR: This group of patients with shoulder pain secondary to second and third rib syndrome who received upper thoracic and upper rib HVLA thrust manipulations showed significant reductions in pain and disability and improvement in perceived level of recovery.