Posteroanterior movements in tender and less tender locations of the cervical spine

Manual Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 28-35

  Tuttle, Neil ^a   Barrett, Rod ^a   Laakso, Liisa ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Articular; Manipulation; Physical therapy techniques; Range of motion; Spinal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL PAIN; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SPINE MOBILITY;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANIPULATION, SPINAL; MIDDLE AGED; NECK PAIN; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REFERENCE VALUES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149269268     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Banks K. Passive techniques: a review of their use in clinical practice. In: Pitt-Brooke J., Reid H., Lockwood J., and Kerr K. (Eds). Rehabilitation of movement: theoretical basis of clinical practice (1998), Saunders, London 319-360
2. Bogduk N., Bolton P., Jull G., and Bellamy N. Acute neck pain. In: Brooks P., March L., Bogduk N., and Bellamy N. (Eds). Evidence-based management of acute musculoskeletal pain (2003), Australian Academic Press, Bowen Hills, Qld 83-110
3. Bullock-Saxton J., Chaitow L., Gibbons P., Goosen S., Lee D., Lewit K., et al. The palpation reliability debate: the experts respond. Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies 6 1 (2002) 18-36
4. Caling B., and Lee M. Effect of direction of applied mobilization force on the posteroanterior response in the lumbar spine. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 24 2 (2001) 71-78
5. Chansirinukor W., Lee M., and Latimer J. Contribution of pelvic rotation to lumbar posteroanterior movement. Manual Therapy 6 4 (2001) 242-249
6. Colloca C.J., and Keller T.S. Active trunk extensor contributions to dynamic posteroanterior lumbar spinal stiffness. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 27 4 (2004) 229-237
7. Edmondston S.J., Allison G.T., Gregg C.D., Purden S.M., Svansson G.R., and Watson A.E. Effect of position on the posteroanterior stiffness of the lumbar spine. Manual Therapy 3 1 (1998) 21-26
8. Fritz J.M., Whitman J.M., and Childs J.D. Lumbar spine segmental mobility assessment: an examination of validity for determining intervention strategies in patients with low back pain. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 86 9 (2005) 1745-1752
9. Gal J., Herzog W., Kawchuk G., Conway P.J., and Zhang Y.T. Movements of vertebrae during manipulative thrusts to unembalmed human cadavers. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 20 1 (1997) 30-40
10. Grieve G.P. Common vertebral joint problems (1981), Churchill Livingstone, Melbourne
11. Hodges P., Kaigle Holm A., Holm S., Ekstrom L., Cresswell A., Hansson T., et al. Intervertebral stiffness of the spine is increased by evoked contraction of transversus abdominis and the diaphragm: in vivo porcine studies. Spine 28 23 (2003) 2594-2601
12. Hood G. PopTools version 2.7.1. CSIRO; 2005.
13. Humphreys B.K., Delahaye M., and Peterson C.K. An investigation into the validity of cervical spine motion palpation using subjects with congenital block vertebrae as a 'gold standard'. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 5 (2004) 19
14. Jull G., Bogduk N., and Marsland A. The accuracy of manual diagnosis for cervical zygapophysial joint pain syndromes. Medical Journal of Australia 148 5 (1988) 233-236
15. Kawchuk G.N., and Fauvel O.R. Sources of variation in spinal indentation testing: indentation site relocation, intraabdominal pressure, subject movement, muscular response, and stiffness estimation. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 24 2 (2001) 84-91
16. Kawchuk G.N., Kaigle A.M., Holm S.H., Rod Fauvel O., Ekstrom L., and Hansson T. The diagnostic performance of vertebral displacement measurements derived from ultrasonic indentation in an in vivo model of degenerative disc disease. Spine 26 12 (2001) 1348-1355
17. Kulig K., Landel R., and Powers C.M. Assessment of lumbar spine kinematics using dynamic MRI: a proposed mechanism of sagittal plane motion induced by manual posterior-to-anterior mobilization. Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy 34 2 (2004) 57-64
18. Latimer J., Lee M., and Adams R. The effect of training with feedback on physiotherapy students' ability to judge lumbar stiffness. Manual Therapy 1 5 (1996) 266-270
19. Latimer J., Lee M., Adams R., and Moran C.M. An investigation of the relationship between low back pain and lumbar posteroanterior stiffness. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 19 9 (1996) 587-591
20. Lee R., and Evans J. An in vivo study of the intervertebral movements produced by posteroanterior mobilization. Clinical Biomechanics 12 6 (1997) 400-408
21. Lee M., and Liversidge K. Posteroanterior stiffness at three locations in the lumbar spine. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 17 8 (1994) 511-516
22. Lee H., Nicholson L.L., and Adams R.D. Cervical range of motion associations with subclinical neck pain. Spine 29 1 (2004) 33-40
23. Lee R.Y., McGregor A.H., Bull A.M., and Wragg P. Dynamic response of the cervical spine to posteroanterior mobilisation. Clinical Biomechanics 20 2 (2005) 228-231
24. Lenhoff M.W., Santner T.J., Otis J.C., Peterson M.G., Williams B.J., and Backus S.I. Bootstrap prediction and confidence bands: a superior statistical method for analysis of gait data. Gait & Posture 9 1 (1999) 10-17
25. Maher C., and Adams R. Is the clinical concept of spinal stiffness multidimensional?. Physical Therapy 75 10 (1995) 854-860
26. Maher C., and Adams R. A psychophysical evaluation of manual stiffness discrimination. Australian Journal of Physiotherapy 41 (1995) 161-167
27. Maitland G., Hengeveld E., Banks K., and English K. Maitland's vertebral manipulation. 7th ed. (2005), Elsevier/Butterworth Heinemann, Edinburgh
28. Marcotte J., Normand M.C., and Black P. Measurement of the pressure applied during motion palpation and reliability for cervical spine rotation. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 28 8 (2005) 591-596
29. Nicholson L., Maher C., Adams R., and Phan-Thien N. Stiffness properties of the human lumbar spine: a lumped parameter model. Clinical Biomechanics 16 4 (2001) 285-292
30. Petty N.J., Maher C., Latimer J., and Lee M. Manual examination of accessory movements-seeking R1. Manual Therapy 7 1 (2002) 39-43
31. Pool J.J., Hoving J.L., de Vet H.C., van Mameren H., and Bouter L.M. The interexaminer reproducibility of physical examination of the cervical spine. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 27 2 (2004) 84-90
32. Shirley D. Manual therapy and tissue stiffness. In: Boyling J.D., and Jull G. (Eds). Grieve's modern manual therapy (2004), Churchill Livingstone, Sydney 381-391
33. Shirley D., Hodges P.W., Eriksson A.E., and Gandevia S.C. Spinal stiffness changes throughout the respiratory cycle. Journal of Applied Physiology 95 4 (2003) 1467-1475
34. Smedmark V., Wallin M., and Arvidsson I. Inter-examiner reliability in assessing passive intervertebral motion of the cervical spine. Manual Therapy 5 2 (2000) 97-101
35. Snodgrass S.J., Rivett D.A., and Robertson V.J. Manual forces applied during posterior-to-anterior spinal mobilization: a review of the evidence. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 29 4 (2006) 316-329
36. Squires M.C., Latimer J., Adams R.D., and Maher C.G. Indenter head area and testing frequency effects on posteroanterior lumbar stiffness and subjects' rated comfort. Manual Therapy 6 1 (2001) 40-47
37. Sran M.M., Khan K.M., Zhu Q., and Oxland T.R. Posteroanterior stiffness predicts sagittal plane midthoracic range of motion and three-dimensional flexibility in cadaveric spine segments. Clinical Biomechanics 20 8 (2005) 806-812
38. Tuttle N., Barrett R., and Laakso L. Postero-anterior movements of the cervical spine: repeatability of force-displacement curves. Manual Therapy 13 4 (2007) 341-348