International Journal of Osteopathic Medicine

Consent and confidentiality are important elements of osteopathic care, but for children and young people these issues are often more complicated. The ethics and law of consent and confidentiality for children are different from adults and they are often contradictory and counterintuitive.

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European Journal of Gastrenterology & Hepatology

Effective therapies for irritable bowel syndrome are disappointing. Therefore, IBS patients have a growing interest for alternative medicines including osteopathy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of osteopathy on the severity of IBS.

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Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology

Low back pain is a well-recognized public health problem with no clear gold standard medical approach to treatment. Thus, those with LBP frequently turn to treatments such as spinal manipulation. Many clinical trials have been conducted to evaluate the efficacy or effectiveness of SM for LBP. The primary objective of this paper was to describe the current literature on patient-centered outcomes following a specific type of commonly used SM, high-velocity low-amplitude, in patients with LBP.

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Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies

Visceral manual therapy is increasingly used by U.K. osteopaths and manual therapists, but there is a paucity of research investigating its underlying mechanisms, and in particular in relation to hypoalgesia. The aim of this study was to investigate the immediate effects of osteopathic visceral mobilization on pressure pain thresholds

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