Do various baseline characteristics of transversus abdominis and lumbar multifidus predict clinical outcomes in non-specific low back pain?
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Can baseline features of transversus abdominis and lumbar multifidus predict low back pain?
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What are the factors for knee pain
Being female, reporting general health symptoms, having widespread pain, familial osteoarthritis and morning stiffness are all factors for knee pain
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Stress response in chronic whiplash
People with chronic whiplash have a hypersensitive nervous system and a dysfunctional internal pain inhibitory mechanism. Are these effects on the stress system and the pain system unrelated or are they components of one integrated system?
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Targeted therapy for acute whiplash gets it in the neck (again)
What to do about whiplash? Trials have historically produced disappointing results across the board for our management strategies. As is so often the case the interpretation of those results can be broadly divided into 2 camps. One camp (often rather small) who accept that current treatments are not really doing the job, the other who find fault with the trials and feel that they have not provided the fair test to which they claim
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Balancing the somatosensation
Most scientists consider the vestibular system as an organ for balance, orientation and control of eye movements. In some recent studies, we suggested a wider view, in which vestibular signals also influence processing within other individual sensory channels.