Manual Therapy Treatment Mechanisms are Complex: Challenges and a Call to Action - PubMed
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- #Treatment Mechanisms
- #Research Challenges
- #Manual Therapy
- Treatment mechanisms are the processes through which an intervention, like force-based manipulations in manual therapy, produces its effects.
- Studying these mechanisms is highly complex due to interactions with unmeasured variables, influence of time, clinician, and environment, and individual variability in response.
- Recommendations are provided to improve study design methodology and clarity of inference for better mechanistic research.
- A 'Call for Action' emphasizes the importance of advancing mechanistic research to enhance scientific knowledge and clinical practice in manual therapy.