Browsing by Author "Swain, Michael"

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    • Correlations between individuals’ characteristics and spinal stiffness in individuals with and without back pain: A combined analysis of multiple data sets 

      Pagé, Isabelle; Swain, Michael; Wong, Arnold; Breen, Alex; De Carvalho, Diana; Descarreaux, Martin; Funabashi, Martha; Kawchuk, Gregory (Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, 2018)
      Objective: The purpose of this study was to describe the correlations between individual characteristics and spinal stiffness as measured with different spinal stiffness measurement devices in individuals with and without ...

    • Clinicians' ability to detect a palpable difference in spinal stiffness compared with a mechanical device 

      Kawchuk, Gregory N; Miazga, Stephen; Pagé, Isabelle; Swain, Michael; De Carvalho, Diana; Funabashi, Martha; Breen, Alex; Wong, Arnold (Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, 2019)
      Objective: The purpose of this study was to quantify the threshold at which clinicians can detect a difference in spinal stiffness of the thoracic and lumbar spine via palpation and then determine if this detection threshold ...

    • The global summit on the efficacy and effectiveness of spinal manipulative therapy for the prevention and treatment of non-musculoskeletal disorders: a systematic review of the literature 

      Côté, Pierre; Hartvigsen, Jan; Axén, Iben; Leboeuf-Yde, Charlotte; Corso, Melissa; Shearer, Heather; Wong, Jessica; Marchand, Andrée-Anne; Cassidy, J David; French, Simon; Kawchuk, Gregory N; Mior, Silvano; Poulsen, Erik; Srbely, John; Ammedolia, Carlo; Blanchette, Marc-André; Busse, Jason W; Bussières, André; Cancelliere, Carolina; Christensen, Henrik Wulff; De Carvalho, Diana; de Luca, Katie; du Rose, Alister; Eklund, Andreas; Engel, Roger; Goncalves, Guillaume; Hebert, Jeffrey; Hincapié, Cesar A; Hondras, Maria; Kimpton, Amanda; Lauridsen, Henrik Hein; Innes, Stanley; Meyer, Anne-Laure; Newell, Dave; O'Neill, Søren; Pagé, Isabelle; Passmore, Steven; Perle, Stephen M; Quon, Jeffrey; Rezai, Mana; Stupar, Maja; Swain, Michael; Vitello, Andrew; Weber, Kenneth; Young, Kenneth J; Yu, Hainan (Chiropractic and Manual Therapies, 2021)
      Background: A small proportion of chiropractors, osteopaths, and other manual medicine providers use spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) to manage non-musculoskeletal disorders. However, the efficacy and effectiveness of ...