Complementary Therapies in Medicine

Strain–counterstrain is an osteopathic technique which is widely used for treating mobility restrictions in the neck. We aimed to investigate whether a single strain–counterstrain intervention is more effective than a sham intervention in improving restricted cervical range of motion in patients with neck pain.

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Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies

Few objective measures have been used to document change in myofascial tissues after osteopathic manipulative treatment. The hypothesis of this study states that paraspinal tissues associated with cervical somatic dysfunction will demonstrate quantifiable change in myofascial hysteresis characteristics after a given OMT technique but not after a Sham intervention.

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The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association

An objective means to identify somatic dysfunction has long eluded manipulative medicine. The authors continue the search for a standardized, reliable, and reproducible way to meet evidence-based criteria. In this pilot study, ultrasonography was used to assess the validity of palpatory examinations, testing whether noninvasive imaging technology will accomplish what electromyography, kinematic analyses, myoelectric data and thermography have not.

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Manual Therapy

Accurate palpation of lumbar spinous processes is a key component of spinal assessment. It is also vital for the accurate measurement of spinal motion when using external skin marker-based measurement systems, which are being increasingly used to understand low back disorders and their management. The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of lumbar spinous process palpation using positional magnetic resonance imagery (MRI) (pMRI).

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