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Manual Therapy: Always a Passive Treatment?

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Rhon, DI; Deyle, GD
Published in: J Orthop Sports Phys Ther
October 2021

The use of manual therapy as an intervention has garnered intense debate, one that is often mired in a straw-man argument that manual therapy is a purely passive intervention. When passive interventions are equated with low-value care, it is easy to deride manual therapy as low-value care. However, manual therapy describes a wide variety of treatments, some with passive components and some that are primarily passive in certain scenarios. But manual therapy can be an integral part of highly active treatment strategies. We implore investigators to describe manual therapy interventions in sufficient detail so that they can be reproduced and thereby help the end users of research (including clinicians) to better assess the value of such interventions. This Viewpoint challenges the assumption that manual therapy is always a passive treatment of low value. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 2021;51(10):474-477. Epub 1 Jul 2021. doi:10.2519/jospt.2021.10330.

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J Orthop Sports Phys Ther

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EISSN

1938-1344

Publication Date

October 2021

Volume

51

Issue

10

Start / End Page

474 / 477

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Periodicals as Topic
  • Orthopedics
  • Musculoskeletal Manipulations
  • Humans
  • Exercise Therapy
  • 4207 Sports science and exercise
  • 4201 Allied health and rehabilitation science
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences
 

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Rhon, D. I., & Deyle, G. D. (2021). Manual Therapy: Always a Passive Treatment? J Orthop Sports Phys Ther, 51(10), 474–477. https://doi.org/10.2519/jospt.2021.10330
Rhon, Daniel I., and Gail D. Deyle. “Manual Therapy: Always a Passive Treatment?J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 51, no. 10 (October 2021): 474–77. https://doi.org/10.2519/jospt.2021.10330.
Rhon DI, Deyle GD. Manual Therapy: Always a Passive Treatment? J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2021 Oct;51(10):474–7.
Rhon, Daniel I., and Gail D. Deyle. “Manual Therapy: Always a Passive Treatment?J Orthop Sports Phys Ther, vol. 51, no. 10, Oct. 2021, pp. 474–77. Pubmed, doi:10.2519/jospt.2021.10330.
Rhon DI, Deyle GD. Manual Therapy: Always a Passive Treatment? J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 2021 Oct;51(10):474–477.

Published In

J Orthop Sports Phys Ther

DOI

EISSN

1938-1344

Publication Date

October 2021

Volume

51

Issue

10

Start / End Page

474 / 477

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Periodicals as Topic
  • Orthopedics
  • Musculoskeletal Manipulations
  • Humans
  • Exercise Therapy
  • 4207 Sports science and exercise
  • 4201 Allied health and rehabilitation science
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 1106 Human Movement and Sports Sciences
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences