Mulligan's mobilization-with-movement, positional faults and pain relief: Current concepts from a critical review of literature

Manual Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 98-108

  Vicenzino, Bill ^a   Paungmali, Aatit ^a   Teys, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mechanism(s); Mobilization with movement; Pain; Positional faults

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; BIOMECHANICS; BODY POSITION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MOBILIZATION WITH MOVEMENT; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH; REVIEW;

ARTHRALGIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANIPULATION, ORTHOPEDIC; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247165740     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2006.07.012     Document Type: Review

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