Chiropractic & Manual Therapies

The use of a treatment by health care providers requires examination of the evidence of effectiveness and assessment of the evidence for risks or adverse events caused by the treatment. Spinal manipulation therapy has strong evidence for treatment of low back pain, neck pain, headache and migraine. This is supported by numerous systematic reviews of a large number of randomized controlled trials.

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European Spine Journal

Vertebral deformities often occur in patients who recall no trauma, and display no evident fracture on radiographs. We hypothesize that vertebral deformity can occur by a gradual creep mechanism which is accelerated following minor damage. "Creep" is continuous deformation under constant load.

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Pain Physician

Understanding the mechanisms of long-standing musculoskeletal pain and adaptations in response to physical rehabilitation is important for developing optimal treatment strategies. The influence of central adaptations of pain perception in response to rehabilitation of musculoskeletal pain remains unclear. The objective of this trial is to investigate the effect of neck/shoulder resistance training on pressure pain threshold of the painful neck/shoulder muscles and a non-painful reference muscle of the leg in adults with neck/shoulder pain.

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Spine

This study investigates in acute non-specific low back pain (LBP) the effectiveness of spinal high-velocity-low-amplitude (HVLA) manipulation compared with the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) diclofenac and with placebo.

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