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Summery of neck examination 1.Excluding red flags and differential diagnosis: Clinicians should perform assessments and identify clinical findings in patients with neck pain to determine the potent

Summary of Recommendations for neck intervention: NECK PAIN WITH MOBILITY DEFICITS Acute: - Clinicians should provide thoracic manipulation, a program of neck ROM exercises, and scapulothoraci

The Lancet Journal has recently published a series of papers on low back pain (LBP). The global burden of LBP is increasing, however there is a need to identify cost-effective and context-specific st

Summary of Recommendations for neck intervention (Continued): NECK PAIN WITH HEADACHES Acute: - Clinicians should provide supervised instruction in active mobility exercise. - Clinicians may prov

1.Self management: the patients should know information about low back pain nature. They also should encourage to get back to their normal activity. 2.Manual therapy treatment package: Mobilization,

“A patient presenting with acute low back pain with a suggestion of a disturbance of their bladder or bowel function and/or saddle sensory disturbance should be suspected of having CES”( Germon et al,

Prevention and treatment of low back pain The gap between evidence and practice

Higher levels of patient, who had physical therapy during 6 weeks, self-rated major improvements at 3 – 6 months and 1 year

Grieve’s Modern Manual Therapy- 4th edition

Leg pain due to neural tissue involvement is typically a very painful disorder (radicular pain). Allow short recovery periods in bed, but prolonged rest as a form of therapy should be discouraged. Fr

Prevention and treatment of low back pain: evidence, challenges, and promising directions Recommendations include use of a bio-psychosocial framework to guide management with initial non-pharmac

Clinical practice guidelines for the management of non‐specific low back pain in primary care: an updated overview clinical practice guidelines containing recommendations for non-specific LBP have bee

Summary of Recommendations for neck intervention (Continued): NECK PAIN WITH MOVEMENT COORDINATION IMPAIRMENTS (including whiplash-associated disorder [WAD]): Acute: - Clinicians should provide the fo

If people do not engage with physical activity, what value is it? Our current failures need to be addressed.

Discs have gained quite a reputation in society today, that everyone seems to “know” a little about discs and have a lot more to say about them. Let’s discuss how accurate are our common beliefs abo

Do you believe in the correlation between the the presence of neck pain and alteration of the normal cervical lordotic curve?

Avoid bed rest, find a position or movement that gives you less pain and try to keep moving all the time” Therapist. “But what if it does hurt more?” Patient. We all meet that kind of patient, what i

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