Thoracic Manipulation for Neck Pain

Demonstration of upper thoracic or upper back manipulation for patients with neck pain

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Neck pain
• thoracic manipulation
• physical therapy
• rehabilitation

[MrCoyne44]

I couldn't agree more... there is no skill or science behind this "manipulation". What is the thought process behind it? I could easily teach my 13 year old nephew to do such a thing without even being trained it. Chiropractors are more specific, more highly trained, get better results, and even have more research backing them up as if that mattered. The chiropractic adjustment is far superior to this manipulation.

[BelmarPT]

@MrCoyne44 "Chiropractors are more specific, more highly trained, get better results, and even have more research backing them up as if that mattered." Care to share any of this so called research. You will find that most of the research showing the benefits of thoracic manipulation has been done by physical therapists. Furthermore, the research proving the effectiveness of thoracic manipulation used the exact procedure in this video. So there is science behind this manipulation.

[GTPTms]

Nice and simple regarding the demonstration and explanation. Anyone trained or credentialed in education will recognize that. Thanks for sharing. Wow, there are a lot of people with some issues here. I am a doctor of PT with 20 years of manual therapy experience. Manipulation is a shared procedure across many disciplines...actually Indian barbers and Turkish bath attendants use manipulation more often than all of us put together! Ha!

[BelmarPT]

@GTPTms Thank you. Looks like you understand what I was trying to accomplish with this video. You are correct. No single profession "owns" manipulation.

[arunneil]

i have got a patient with the pain radiating in the shoulder blade, and suffering from CS since 9 yrs and lost cervical curve he feel heaviness in neck after journey and after work (sitting job)... pls suggest more regarding this case. i want to know some exercises regarding improvement of c.curve and to reduce his pain... kindly suggest

regards

[MadDemon64]

"The thoracic spine is basically the bottom of the neck down to just below the shoulder blade region."

That one sentence made me lose all faith in this guy.

Anyone who took an anatomy course knows that the thoracic spine is from the base of the neck to the top of the abdominal region.

[shaxyr]

@shaxyr Considering the VAST number of cervical manips chiropractic vs the rest of the healthcare profession perform I reckon chiro trained is better.

[shaxyr]

@kevinharriet12 Reuter et a J Neurol2006l. reported 36 cases of vertebral artery dissection seen within three years in 13 neurological centres.41 On admission, 30 of these patients had neurological deficits; on discharge this figure had decreased to 18. Spinal manipulation had been administered by orthopaedic surgeons (50%), physiotherapists (14%), chiropractors (11%) or other health-care professionals. I

[shaxyr]

@Belmar Thank you for pointing out that there is evidence that chiropractic manipulation does work whether you or anyone else does it. Chiro however is recognised as a high velocity low amplitude thrust in a specific direction. However this is a long lever nonspecific thrust if you knew anything and is actually Osteopathic. There is evidence to prove that is effective too. If you knew anything, when medicine and physio told the world manipulation didn't work we were developing the skills.

[Triviaguy99]

Funny how you pieces of shit bash chiropractic then use manipulation in practice. Fucking jokes.

[mdnickens01]

So this is where Payton Manning has been all season.

[nastymonsters2]

Back cracker give me your money move waste of time and a con

[Alohadr]

Ah the party adjustment as I call it, alot of flack from chiros in the comments yet they would perform the same move, only more often standing if cornered at a party by a patient needing a quick fix. Issue I have is that thousands to millions of people will now try these moves ... is that your purpose to be a how to video? skip the Dr and just go to youtube instead? I'm debating if I want to do this with skill set & adjustments. But these videos do rack up the views, has it helped the practice?

[jmanc909]

I used to do this manipulation to my friends when I was in high school. The range of motion is increased but where did the range come from? It probably came from a region that was already moving normally. A quick cavitation anywhere will increase rom as you move the joint through it's "paraphysical zone" the ligaments stretch momentarily but will return to the normal zone for protection of the nervous system. It is imperative for the adjustment to be where the patient needs it, you need to