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PHYS THER
Vol. 75, No. 7, July 1995, pp. 638-641
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Spinal Models


This excerpt was created in the absence of an abstract.

To the Editor:

We would like to congratulate Dr Simmonds and colleagues for attempting to quantify aspects of spinal manual therapy in their recent report1 in Physical Therapy. Although the use of a spinal model can be an appropriate way " ...to determine the perceptual accuracy of therapists..., "1(p222) we believe that the primary aim of the study "...to quantify the forces used in mobilization and measure the resultant motion under different conditions of stiffness..."1(p222) is unlikely to be achieved with the current model. Evidence already available suggests that the mechanical responses of the model are unlike those of the human spine2–6 and so prohibit the generalization of the results to the clinical context.

The authors claim that evidence for the their model is provided by the observation that the forces applied to the model were similar to those applied to human subjects....


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Use of a Spinal Model to Quantify the Forces and Motion That Occur During Therapists' Tests of Spinal Motion
Maureen J Simmonds, Shrawan Kumar, and Eugene Lechelt
Physical Therapy 1995 75: 212-222. [Abstract] [PDF]





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