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Effects of articular mobilization of the Mulligan concept on chronic cervicalgy in adults
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Keywords

Neck pain
Physical therapy modalities
Musculoskeletal pain
Disability and health

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Effects of articular mobilization of the Mulligan concept on chronic cervicalgy in adults. (2021). Electronic Journal Collection Health, 13(4), e6850. https://doi.org/10.25248/reas.e6850.2021

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Abstract

Objective: To analyse the effects of the Mobilizations of the Mulligan Concept (MMC) techniques in adults with cronic neck pain. Methods: Systematic review through the “Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses” (PRISMA) recomendations, only including Randomized Clinical Trials (RCT) with MMC techniques in individuals with ages between 18 and 59 with neck pain degree I-II, with pain intesity and/or incapacity evaluated by validated instruments, only papers with texts in english, portuguese or spanish, between the years 2015 and 2020, on the databasis PubMed, Web of Science, Science Direct, Embase, Scopus, Cochrane Library and PEDro, it was contucted the analisys of the titles and the reading of the abstracts to verify the ones which would be fully evaluated. This stage was performed independently by three researchers. The tool Cochrane was applied to evaluate the methodological quality and the risk of biases. Results: After an elegibility criteria analisys, from the 65 indetified studies, 4 of them were selected to the quantitative synthesis. Final considerations: MMC associated with other conduits provide improvement in pain and incapacity, and individuals treated with isolated SNAGS obtained improvement on the pain pressure threshold.

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