Interexaminer reliability of three methods of combining test results to determine side of sacral restriction, sacral base position, and innominate bone position

Journal of the American Osteopathic Association

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 464-468

  Tong, Henry C ^a,b   Heyman, Oscar G ^a   Lado, Derek A ^a   Isser, Mara M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Michigan Head and Spine Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY POSITION; BONE MALFORMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOTOMY; PALPATION; PHYSICIAN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SACROILIAC JOINT; SACRUM; SITTING;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MANIPULATION, OSTEOPATHIC; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PALPATION; PELVIC BONES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SACROILIAC JOINT; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 33748478786     PISSN: 00986151     EISSN: 00986151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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