Background: To study and compare the effectiveness of active release technique and mulligan bent leg raise in subjects with hamstring tightness. Methods: 40 normal healthy subjects (20 in each group) were recruited in the study under simple randomization method. Group A received single session of Active Release Technique and Group B received single session of Mulligan Bent Leg Raise technique f...

UNLABELLED [Purpose] The aim of this study was to evaluate the immediate effects of Mulligan fibular taping on static and dynamic postural balance in healthy subjects using computerized dynamic posturography (CDP). [Subjects and Methods] Forty-four volunteers (26 males and 18 females) aged 21 ±2 years participated in the study. The Mulligan tape was applied by a specialist in this technique. Th...

Therapy (WCPT) conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, two physical therapists from New Zealand were honoured with the WCPT International Service to the Profession Award1. This award is presented at most once every four years to physical therapists that have made an exceptional contribution to the profession at the international or regional level by way of excellence in the areas of practice...

Kevin Mulligan FDSRCS, MOrthRCS Faculty of Dental Surgery University of Malta Medical School, Guardamangia

For most people, the trip from the Whitehead Institute at MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to Harvard Medical School is a two-mile bus ride. For Richard Mulligan, who late last year became the first director of the Harvard Gene Therapy Initiative, it seems like a voyage to a new world. It is daunting enough that Mulligan had to move from the MIT’s ‘research is all that counts’ at...