Effects of upper extremity neural mobilization on thermal pain sensitivity: A sham-controlled study in asymptomatic participants

Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 428-438

  Beneciuk, Jason M ^a   Bishop, Mark D ^a   George, Steven Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Manual therapy; Neurodynamic testing; Temporal summation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649971446     PISSN: 01906011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2519/jospt.2009.2954     Document Type: Article

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