Do participants with low back pain who respond to spinal manipulative therapy differ biomechanically from nonresponders, untreated controls or asymptomatic controls?

Spine

Volumn 40, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 1329-1337

  Wong, Arnold Y L ^a   Parent, Eric C ^b   Dhillon, Sukhvinder S ^b   Prasad, Narasimha ^b   Kawchuk, Gregory N ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

apparent diffusion coefficient; diffusion weighted imaging; disc diffusion; indentation; intervertebral discs; low back pain; multifidus contraction; Oswestry Disability Index; spinal manipulative therapy; spinal stiffness; ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; DISK DIFFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRARATER RELIABILITY; JOINT LAXITY; KINESIOTHERAPY; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR DISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE THICKNESS; NERVE ROOT COMPRESSION; NUCLEUS PULPOSUS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RIGIDITY; SCOLIOSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADOLESCENT; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MANIPULATION, SPINAL; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN MEASUREMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84940979355     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000000981     Document Type: Article

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