{"id":3583,"date":"1993-12-01T18:24:15","date_gmt":"1993-12-02T01:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activator.com\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2023-06-07T08:34:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:34:09","slug":"biomechanical-characterization-fingerprinting-of-five-novel-methods-of-cervical-spine-manipulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/activator.com\/biomechanical-characterization-fingerprinting-of-five-novel-methods-of-cervical-spine-manipulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Biomechanical Characterization (fingerprinting) of Five Novel Methods of Cervical Spine Manipulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Abstract<\/h3>\n<div class=\"\">\n<h4>OBJECTIVE:<\/h4>\n<p>To determine the biomechanical characteristics of five clinically common methods of cervical spine manipulation.<\/p>\n<h4>DESIGN:<\/h4>\n<p>Descriptive study.<\/p>\n<h4>SETTING:<\/h4>\n<p>Human Performance Lab, University of Calgary.<\/p>\n<h4>PARTICIPANTS:<\/h4>\n<p>Five volunteer practitioners treating symptomatic patients from their own clinical populations.<\/p>\n<h4>INTERVENTION:<\/h4>\n<p>Five commonly used methods of cervical spine manipulation: lateral break (LAT), Gonstead (GON), Activator (ACT), toggle (TOG), rotation (ROT).<\/p>\n<h4>MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE:<\/h4>\n<p>Mean thrust duration (msec), normalized mean peak force (N), slope (N\/msec), force profile (graphic representation of the above values.<\/p>\n<h4>RESULTS:<\/h4>\n<p>Outcome measures for each manipulative technique were as follows: LAT = normalized mean peak force of 102.2 N at 86.7 msec, GON = 109.8 N at 91.9 msec, ACT = 40.9 N at 31.8 msec, TOG = 117.6 N at 47.5 msec, ROT = 40.5 N at 79.1 msec.<\/p>\n<h4>CONCLUSION:<\/h4>\n<p>The observed differences and similarities in force profiles between the five techniques studied here may partly be the manifestation of how a particular technique delivers force to the cervical spine. The clinical significance of force profile characterization is not yet known.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a title=\"Journal of manipulative and physiological therapeutics.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/8133191#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">J Manipulative Physiol Ther.<\/a> 1993 Nov-Dec;16(9):573-7. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/8133191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PMID:8133191<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Author information:\u00a0Kawchuk GN, Herzog W.\u00a0University of Calgary, Faculty of Physical Education, Alberta, Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script>function getWR360PopupSkin(){return 'light_clean';}<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract OBJECTIVE: To determine the biomechanical characteristics of five clinically common methods of cervical spine manipulation. DESIGN: Descriptive study. SETTING: Human Performance Lab, University of Calgary. PARTICIPANTS: Five volunteer practitioners treating symptomatic patients from their own clinical populations. INTERVENTION: Five commonly used methods of cervical spine manipulation: lateral break (LAT), Gonstead (GON), Activator (ACT), toggle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,12,4],"tags":[29,19,47],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biomechanical","category-cervical-spine","category-research","tag-cervical","tag-manipulation","tag-spine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133789,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/133789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/activator.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}