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Efficacy of manual therapy treatments for people with cervicogenic dizziness and pain: protocol of a randomised controlled trial

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, October 2012
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Title
Efficacy of manual therapy treatments for people with cervicogenic dizziness and pain: protocol of a randomised controlled trial
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BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, October 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2474-13-201
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Susan A Reid, Darren A Rivett, Michael G Katekar, Robin Callister

Abstract

Cervicogenic dizziness is a disabling condition characterised by postural unsteadiness that is aggravated by cervical spine movements and associated with a painful and/or stiff neck. Two manual therapy treatments (Mulligan's Sustained Natural Apophyseal Glides (SNAGs) and Maitland's passive joint mobilisations) are used by physiotherapists to treat this condition but there is little evidence from randomised controlled trials to support their use. The aim of this study is to conduct a randomised controlled trial to compare these two forms of manual therapy (Mulligan glides and Maitland mobilisations) to each other and to a placebo in reducing symptoms of cervicogenic dizziness in the longer term and to conduct an economic evaluation of the interventions. Participants with symptoms of dizziness described as imbalance, together with a painful and/or stiff neck will be recruited via media releases, advertisements and mail-outs to medical practitioners in the Hunter region of NSW, Australia. Potential participants will be screened by a physiotherapist and a neurologist to rule out other causes of their dizziness. Once diagnosed with cervciogenic dizziness, 90 participants will be randomly allocated to one of three groups: Maitland mobilisations plus range-of-motion exercises, Mulligan SNAGs plus self-SNAG exercises or placebo. Participants will receive two to six treatments over six weeks. The trial will have unblinded treatment but blinded outcome assessments. Assessments will occur at baseline, post-treatment, six weeks, 12 weeks, six months and 12 months post treatment. The primary outcome will be intensity of dizziness. Other outcome measures will be frequency of dizziness, disability, intensity of cervical pain, cervical range of motion, balance, head repositioning, adverse effects and treatment satisfaction. Economic outcomes will also be collected. This paper describes the methods for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of two manual therapy techniques in the treatment of people with cervicogenic dizziness for which there is limited established evidence-based treatment. ACTRN12611000073909.

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Country Count As %
United States 3 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Portugal 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 332 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 67 19%
Student > Bachelor 47 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 33 10%
Student > Postgraduate 29 8%
Other 22 6%
Other 81 24%
Unknown 65 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 128 37%
Nursing and Health Professions 55 16%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 19 6%
Unspecified 14 4%
Sports and Recreations 10 3%
Other 41 12%
Unknown 77 22%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 April 2019.
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#5,851,219
of 22,681,577 outputs
Outputs from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#1,077
of 4,028 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#43,040
of 175,904 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
#16
of 73 outputs
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