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

Spine Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1541-1565

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN MEMORIAL CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE FOR WORK AND HEALTH   (Canada)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Multimodal care; Neck pain and associated disorders; Outcome; Recovery; Systematic review; Whiplash associated disorders

Indexed keywords

DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DIZZINESS; EXERCISE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; NECK PAIN; PAIN INTENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; REASSURANCE; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WHIPLASH INJURY; COMPLICATION; EVALUATION STUDY; KINESIOTHERAPY; META ANALYSIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); WHIPLASH INJURIES;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; NECK PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; WHIPLASH INJURIES;

EID: 84906298155     PISSN: 15299430     EISSN: 18781632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2014.06.019     Document Type: Review

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