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The paper has a very short follow up and has a spectrum bias that make the findings difficult to apply in general practice. Another bias is to treat unspecific neck pain as a disease, when obviously this term implies an undiagnosed etiology. Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, a common cause of neck pain, was not ruled out. A Diagnostic Triad and at least the weakness of the fifth finger was not reported as if it was present or not...
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Thank you for this research study. I was wondering if you could elaborate on the protocol used (i.e.how much time for ROM, check-in, direct hands on to neck, to compensatory areas, and for integration) since article says you had time limits for each part of the session. Also, were they in same proportion for 30 and 60 minute sessions?
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We appreciate the issues raised by Zick and Harris is their recent comment. We agree that the feasibility of therapeutic massage for neck pain may well depend on issues of costs for many patients. This is, of course, true for all medical treatments, though many are more often reimbursed than is massage. Physicians are now being asked to consider costs of care in many circumstances, and this may well be one of them. We b...
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When a patient with chronic neck pain seeks treatment being able to offer non-medication choices is attractive for many. One question that both patients and providers often have is how many sessions and how often would I need to receive complementary or integrative treatments such as chiropractic, acupuncture or massage to gain benefit. Until now the question of dose and frequency has been largely unexplored in a resea...
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