PT Inquest

PT Inquest is an online journal club. Hosted by Jason Tuori, Megan Graham, and Chris Juneau, the show looks at an article every week and discusses how it applies to current physical therapy practice.

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165 Manipulation Effects On Cervical Radiculopathy


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Doing a manipulation on the thoracic spine may help people with cervical radiculopathy but there are a lot of questions to answer here. This paper has an odd presentation of the data and generates concerns when looking at the pretrial registration (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01495728?term=NCT01495728&rank=1).

Immediate and Short-term Effects of Thoracic Spine Manipulation in Patients With Cervical Radiculopathy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Young IA, Pozzi F, Dunning J, Linkonis R, Michener LA.
J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2019 May;49(5):299-309. doi: 10.2519/jospt.2019.8150. Epub 2019 Apr 25.

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 May 27, 2019  50m