The use of RCT's in manual therapy - Are we trying to fit a round peg into a square hole?

Manual Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 403-405

  Milanese, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Evidence based practice; Manual therapy; Randomised controlled trial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTERVENTION STUDY; LOW BACK PAIN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; NECK PAIN; POST HOC ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLING; SHOULDER PAIN; STANDARDIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WHIPLASH INJURY;

EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79958162166     PISSN: 1356689X     EISSN: 15322769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.math.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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