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Musculoskeletal Manipulations (Manipulative Therapy)

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Various manipulations of body tissues, muscles and bones by hands or equipment to improve health and circulation, relieve fatigue, promote healing.

Also Known As:

Manipulative Therapy; Manual Therapy; Manipulative Therapies; Manual Therapies; Therapy, Manipulation; Manipulation Therapies; Therapies, Manipulation; Therapies, Manipulative; Therapies, Manual; Therapy, Manipulative; Therapy, Manual; Manipulation Therapy; Manipulations, Musculoskeletal

Networked: 971 relevant articles (143 outcomes, 218 trials/studies)

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Therapy Context: Research Results

Therapeutics: 15318
- Complementary Therapies: 3806
  - Musculoskeletal Manipulations: 971
- Physical Therapy Modalities: 108
  - Musculoskeletal Manipulations: 971

Experts

1.	Maher, Christopher G: 15 articles (06/2013 - 01/2002)
2.	Latimer, Jane: 13 articles (02/2009 - 01/2002)
3.	van Tulder, Maurits W: 12 articles (10/2014 - 04/2003)
4.	Cleland, Joshua A: 12 articles (04/2013 - 05/2005)
5.	Bronfort, Gert: 11 articles (04/2015 - 05/2004)
6.	Rubinstein, Sidney M: 11 articles (01/2015 - 07/2005)
7.	Bishop, Mark D: 10 articles (11/2015 - 10/2009)
8.	Fernández-de-Las-Peñas, César: 10 articles (11/2014 - 03/2006)
9.	Bialosky, Joel E: 9 articles (11/2015 - 10/2009)
10.	Côté, Pierre: 9 articles (09/2015 - 11/2003)

Related Diseases

1.	Pain (Aches) 07/01/2014 - "The results showed that the self-manual therapy program significantly decreased pain at 4 weeks, increased flexion and extension at 4 and 12 weeks, and improved the KOOS in pain item and SF-36 in physical function and mental health items. " 11/01/2011 - "The use of manual therapy, specifically joint mobilization of the lumbar spine, may significantly decrease a patient's pain and contribute to improvement in his or her functioning. " 03/01/2011 - "To report and discuss four cases of ear pain which were treated successfully with manual therapy. " 07/01/2007 - "Subjects in both groups experienced significant decreases in pain and increases in shoulder function, but there was significantly more improvement in the manual therapy group compared to the exercise group. " 05/01/2006 - "Both manual therapy and the spinal stabilization program are significantly effective in pain reduction in comparison to an active control. "
2.	Low Back Pain (Lumbago) 07/01/2011 - "Several conservative therapies have been shown to be beneficial in the treatment of chronic low back pain (CLBP), including different forms of exercise and spinal manipulative therapy (SMT). " 11/01/2005 - "Manual therapy with specific adjuvant exercise appears to be beneficial in treating chronic low back pain. " 03/15/2003 - "Improvements were found in both intervention groups, but manual therapy showed significantly greater improvement than exercise therapy in patients with chronic low back pain. " 08/01/2010 - "The main objective of this study was to assess whether a higher percentage of adherence to the Dutch physical and manual therapy guidelines for low back pain is related to improved outcomes. " 01/01/2013 - "There is no evidence that spinal manipulative therapy is superior to other standard treatments for patients with acute or chronic low-back pain."
3.	Neck Pain (Cervicalgia) 01/01/2002 - "Each study has its strengths and weaknesses, but the most powerful ones indicate that manual techniques are beneficial for back and neck pain when compared with no treatment or "placebo." Comparative studies against other techniques such as physical therapy, education, or exercise do not show a clear superiority for manual therapy, however. " 01/01/2011 - "Evidence indicates that supervised home exercises, combined or not with manual therapy, can be beneficial for patients with non-specific chronic neck pain (NCNP). " 08/15/2011 - "Is behavioral graded activity cost-effective in comparison with manual therapy for patients with subacute neck pain? " 01/01/2010 - "Combined manual therapy, like naprapathy, is effective in the short and in the long term, and might be considered for patients with non-specific back and/or neck pain. " 02/01/2007 - "There are multiple reports in the literature of serious and at times fatal complications after cervical spine manipulation therapy (CSMT), even though CSMT is considered by some health providers to be an effective and safe therapeutic procedure for head and neck pain syndromes. "
4.	Headache (Headaches) 10/01/2005 - "Both the trials reported positive (+) results on headache intensity, headache duration, and medication intake, so that spinal manipulative therapy obtained strong evidence of effectiveness (level 1) with regard to these outcomes. " 12/01/2015 - "This disorder causes high levels of disability and recent scientific evidence suggests that manual therapy (MT) and therapeutic exercise are effective in reducing medication intake and decreasing the frequency and intensity of headaches in patients with TTH. " 12/01/2015 - "Pooled analyses found that manual therapies were more effective than pharmacological care in reducing frequency (weighted mean difference -0.8036, 95% confidence interval -1.66 to -0.44; three trials), intensity (weighted mean difference -0.5974, 95% confidence interval -0.8875 to -0.3073; five trials) and duration (weighted mean difference -0.5558, 95% confidence interval -0.9124 to -0.1992; three trials) of the headache immediately after treatment. " 08/01/2013 - "In this study, 43 patients (27 women) with headache for more than 3-months and with some features of CGH and signs of TMD were randomly assigned to receive either cervical manual therapy (usual care) or orofacial manual therapy to address TMD in addition to usual care. " 02/01/2014 - "These inconsistent results can be related to the fact that maybe not all manual therapies are appropriate for all types of headaches; or maybe not all patients with headache will benefit from manual therapies. "
5.	Tension-Type Headache (Tension Headache) 03/01/1995 - "The results of this study show that spinal manipulative therapy is an effective treatment for tension headaches. " 03/01/2014 - "The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of manipulative and manual therapy treatments with regard to pain perception and neck mobility in patients with tension-type headache. " 12/01/2015 - "All randomized controlled trials comparing any manual therapy vs. medication care for treating tension type headache adults were included. " 12/01/2015 - "Multimodal manual therapy vs. pharmacological care for management of tension type headache: A meta-analysis of randomized trials." 10/01/2014 - "This study researches the effectiveness of two manual therapy treatments focused on the suboccipital region for tension-type headache. "

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1.	salicylhydroxamic acid (SHAM)
2.	Diclofenac (SR 38)
3.	Adrenal Cortex Hormones (Corticosteroids)
4.	Hormones
5.	Propranolol (Inderal)
6.	Nifedipine (Adalat)
7.	beta-Aminoethyl Isothiourea (AET)
8.	venlafaxine (Effexor)
9.	gabapentin (Neurontin)
10.	2-methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl (MMT)

Related Therapies and Procedures

1.	Traction
2.	Exercise Therapy (Therapy, Exercise)
3.	Musculoskeletal Manipulations (Manipulative Therapy)
4.	Aftercare (After-Treatment)
5.	Massage (Reflexology)