Friday, December 4, 2009

Some Factors Predict Successful Short-Term Outcomes in Individuals With Shoulder Pain Receiving Cervicothoracic Manipulation: A Single-Arm Trial

Mintken PE et al. – The identified prognostic variables will allow clinicians to make an a prior identification of individuals with shoulder pain who are likely to experience short–term improvement with cervical and thoracic spine manipulation. Future studies are necessary to validate these findings.

Physical Therapy, 12/04/09

They need to validate these findings because the found that spinal manipulation gave the patients relief from their pain.

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