Is exercise effective for the management of neck pain and associated disorders or whiplash-associated disorders? A systematic review by the Ontario Protocol for Traffic Injury Management (OPTIMa) Collaboration

Spine Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1503-1523

  Southerst, Danielle ^a   Nordin, Margareta C ^b   Côté, Pierre ^a   Shearer, Heather M ^a   Varatharajan, Sharanya ^a   Yu, Hainan ^a   Wong, Jessica J ^a   Sutton, Deborah A ^a   Randhawa, Kristi A ^a   van der Velde, Gabrielle M ^c,d   Mior, Silvano A ^a,e   Carroll, Linda J ^f   Jacobs, Craig L ^a,e   Taylor Vaisey, Anne L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

^e CANADIAN MEMORIAL CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exercise; Neck pain; Rehabilitation; Systematic review; Treatment; Whiplash associated disorders

Indexed keywords

NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; PARACETAMOL;

CERVICAL COLLAR; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; META ANALYSIS; MUSCLE TRAINING; NECK PAIN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QIGONG; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW; WHIPLASH INJURY; YOGA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; EVALUATION STUDY; PROCEDURES; QUALITY OF LIFE; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; NECK PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 84899774717     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: 18781632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2014.02.014     Document Type: Review

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