P01.48. Biomechanical responses to the mechanical characteristics of a spinal manipulation: effect of varying segmental contact site
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Purpose Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) is a common intervention used to treat low-back pain. Some prior investigations report decreased spinal stiffness following SMT; others report no effect. Given that the efficacy of many therapies (e.g. pharmaceuticals, injections) depend on choice of application site and outcome metric (e.g. fasting vs non-fasting blood sugar), potential explanations for mixed SMT results include variability in SMT application site and the method of computing stiffness. Based on these considerations, our goal was to determine the influence of SMT application site and stiffness computation on SMT-induced changes in spinal stiffness.
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