Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy

Cervical spine manipulation is a commonly utilized intervention, but its use remains controversial. The purpose of this report was to retrospectively analyze all available documented case reports in the literature describing patients who had experienced severe adverse events after receiving CSM to determine if the CSM was used appropriately, and if these types of AEs could have been prevented using sound clinical reasoning on the part of the clinician.

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Pain Medicine

This article is aimed at critically evaluating the evidence from systematic reviews of spinal manipulation in patients with pain. Four electronic databases were searched to identify all relevant articles of the effectiveness of spinal manipulation for pain. SRs were defined as articles employing a repeatable methods section.

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Manual Therapy Journal

Patients commonly report mild to moderate effects following all forms of manual therapy. These are often regarded as adverse events by practitioners but there is limited evidence on how patients view their post-treatment experiences, and what meaning they ascribe to them. This qualitative study used three focus group discussions to explore osteopathic patients' perspectives; a framework approach was used to analyze the data.

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Chiropractor & Manual Therapies

Hypotheses on somatovisceral dysfunction often assume interference by stretch or compression of the nerve supply to visceral structures. The purpose of this study is to examine the potential of pelvic visceral movement to create tension of the loose connective tissue that contains the fine branches of the inferior hypogastric nerve plexus.

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