Reliability of chiropractic methods commonly used to detect manipulable lesions in patients with chronic low-back pain

Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 231-238

  French, Simon D ^a,d   Green, Sally ^b   Forbes, Andrew ^c  

^a Private Practice of Chiropractic   (Australia)

^b Institute of Public Health   (Australia)

^c Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine ^*  (Australia)

^d Submit Reprint Requests To: Simon French   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chiropractic; Low Back Pain; Lumbar Vertebrae; Observer Variation; Reproducibility of Results

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORTHOPEDICS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALPATION; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPINE RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033811198     PISSN: 01614754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mmt.2000.106101     Document Type: Article

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