Repetitive in vivo manual loading of the spine elicits cellular responses in porcine annuli fibrosi.

Back pain and intervertebral disc degeneration are prevalent, costly, and widely treated by manual therapies, yet the underlying causes of these diseases are indeterminate as are the scientific bases for such treatments. The present studies characterize the effects of repetitive in vivo manual loads...

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Main Authors: John Robert Matyas, Claudia Klein, Dragana Ponjevic, Neil A Duncan, Gregory N Kawchuk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248104