Using Manual Therapy to Evaluate Top Down Pain Modulation

06/19/20 • 50 min

🤔 The research has not really supported many mechanical effects of manual therapy✅ Yet we do see it change pain in session✅ Joel Bialosky, Steve George and others have shown us that the mechanisms of manual therapy are mainly neurophysiological❓ What can we learn about the patient's pain modulation abilities through manual therapy?❓ What do we do with this information?❓ Most importantly how do we give people the ability to do it actively?🔥 Join Jarod and Mark as they discuss this and more in Modern Pain Care's Weekly Pain PointsSee Less

*********************************************************************
📸 - Follow us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/modernpaincare/
🐦 - Follow us on Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/modernpaincare/
🎙️ - Listen to our Podcast - https://www.modernpaincare.com
____________________________________
Modern Pain Care is a company dedicated to spreading evidence-based and person-centered information about pain, prevention, and overall fitness and wellness

Previous Episode

The Pain of Healthcare Spending

💸💸Healthcare spending is a major issue!! 💸💸📉 📉The return on investment is severely lacking📉📉✅ This recent JAMA study points to low back pain and neck pain as the areas of highest spending. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2762309📉 📉 These areas often have poor data on the utilization of conservative care options 📉📉🗣🗣 This data needs to be shared with patients and providers 🗣🗣We need to do better!✅ Join Jarod and Mark as they reflect on this article and talk of ways you can use it in conversations with providers and patients.

Next Episode

General Vs Specific Exercise For Low Back Pain

✅Many of us were taught that specific activation of the transverse abdominus and multifidi are a key component of any back exercise program.✅ Research has challenged this thought.🤔 Is there a time for bracing work?🤔 Where can "core stability" go wrong?🤔 How can you prescribe exercise for back pain in a person-centered way versus allowing biomechanical theory dictate our choices to patients?Join Jarod and Mark as they unpack this topic in Modern Pain Care's weekly pain points!Links to articles discussed:https://bmcmusculoskeletdisord.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2474-15-416https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22146280/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22884190/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30381024/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22270245/