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Vol. 82, No. 3, March 2002, pp. 287-289
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Letters and Responses

Is Manual Physical Therapy Distinct From Physical Therapy Clinical Practice?


Because this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the full text and any section headings.

To the Editor: We were both surprised and disappointed to learn of the categorical deletion of research involving the use of manual physical therapy from the Philadelphia Panel Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines. Manual physical therapy is actively practiced in the majority of clinics in the United States and Canada, is part of the Guide to Physical Therapist Practice,1 is included in the normative model of physical therapist education curriculum, and is a large part of mainstream physical therapist practice. Therefore, it is perplexing that the authors of the Philadelphia Panel reported "one RCT was excluded because manual therapy was used as the comparison intervention."2(p1681) This statement is notably ambiguous. The exclusion could be due to a categorical bias against manually applied physical therapy. Alternatively, the authors could have been concerned about the inability to separate the effects of passive movement imparted by the treating therapist from the effects of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Gail Dean Deyle, COL, PT, DPT, OCS,FAAOMPT

Chief, Physical Therapy
Brooke Army Medical Center
3851 Roger Brooke Dr
San Antonio, TX 78218

Nancy E Henderson, COL, PT, PhD, OCS

Chief, Physical Therapy
Madigan Army Medical Center
9040A Reid St
Tacoma, WA 98431

Matthew B Garber, MAJ, PT, DScPT, OCS, FAAOMPT

Director, US Army-Baylor University
Postprofessional Doctoral Program in Orthopaedic and Manual Physical Therapy
Assistant Professor, Baylor University Graduate School
Brooke Army Medical Center

Robert L Matekel, MAJ, PT, DScPT, OCS,FAAOMPT

Faculty, US Army-Baylor University
Post-professional Doctoral Program in Orthopaedic and Manual Physical Therapy
Assistant Professor, Baylor University Graduate School
Brooke Army Medical Center

Michael G Ryder, PT, DScPT, OCS, FAAOMPT

Faculty, US Army-Baylor University
Post-professional Doctoral Program in Orthopaedic and Manual Physical Therapy
Assistant Professor, Baylor University Graduate School
Brooke Army Medical Center

Stephen C Allison, PT, PhD, ECS

US Army War College
122 Forbes Ave
Carlisle Barracks, PA 17013

Jules M Rothstein, PT, PhD, FAPTA, Editor in Chief


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