Assignment: Manual Therapy Resources

Assignment: Manual Therapy Resources

This an assignment that I have to read and familiarize with all the manual therapy resources that I am giving you here (Web links, Videos, Journal Articles, etc.) I must write about them and use the Internet to further explore manual therapy, and answer the following questions if I need more information.

These questions must be answered in the paper.

1. Identify the actions you can take to safe-guard a patient’s right to manual therapy.
2. Describe the role of educators, counselors, advocates, and change agents in manual therapy.
3. List several cases of EBP (evidence-based practice) that support the use of manual therapy.
4. What is manual therapy?
5. What techniques are specific to manual therapy?
6. What conditions are manual therapy used for?
7. The education, scope of practice, and treatment claims of the practitioners.

RESOURCES TO ANSWER THIS QUESTIONS ARE: 3 JOURNALS THAT I ATTACHED PLUS THE VIDEOS AND THE WEB LINKS

Videos

Weblinks

PAPER INSTRUCTIONS

paper should be 4-6 pages, including:

***Title page, reference page according to spacing and margin settings (APA Style),

***MUST BE FREE OF PLAGIARISM

*** MUST BE 4-6 PAGES

Unraveling the Mechanisms of Manual Therapy: Modeling an Approach

Synopsis

Manual therapy interventions are popular among individual health care providers and their patients; however, systematic reviews do not strongly support their effectiveness. Small treatment effect sizes of manual therapy interventions may result from a “one-size-fits-all” approach to treatment. Mechanistic-based treatment approaches to manual therapy offer an intriguing alternative for identifying patients likely to respond to manual therapy. However, the current lack of knowledge of the mechanisms through which manual therapy interventions inhibit pain limits such an approach. The nature of manual therapy interventions further confounds such an approach, as the related mechanisms are likely a complex interaction of factors related to the patient, the provider, and the environment in which the intervention occurs. Therefore, a model to guide both study design and the interpretation of findings is necessary. We have previously proposed a model suggesting that the mechanical force from a manual therapy intervention results in systemic neurophysiological responses leading to pain inhibition. In this clinical commentary, we provide a narrative appraisal of the model and recommendations to advance the study of manual therapy mechanisms. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 2018;48(1):8–18. doi:10.2519/jospt.2018.7476

*Assignment: Manual Therapy Resources