Joint position sense, motor imagery and tactile acuity in lateral elbow tendinopathy: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Impairments of sensorimotor function are evident in individuals with lateral elbow tendinopathy (LET), although understanding of the mechanisms for this is lacking.

Objectives: To determine if motor imagery, tactile acuity and wrist joint position sense (JPS) are impaired in participants with unilateral LET compared to controls, whether deficits are localised to the affected side, and whether deficits relate to severity of pain.

Design: Cross-sectional study with control group.

Dry Needling Combined With Guideline-Based Physical Therapy Provides No Added Benefit in the Management of Chronic Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objective: To determine the added benefit of combining dry needling with a guideline-based physical therapy treatment program consisting of exercise and manual therapy on pain and disability in people with chronic neck pain.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Methods: Participants were randomized to receive either guideline-based physical therapy or guideline-based physical therapy plus dry needling.

Neurodynamic treatment for patients with nerve-related leg pain: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

Objectives: To investigate if neurodynamic treatment is more effective than advice to remain active in patients with nerve-related leg pain.

Design: Parallel-group randomized controlled trial blinded to the outcome assessor conducted in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Participants: Sixty patients recruited from the community and private practices.

Neurodynamic treatment did not improve pain and disability at two weeks in patients with chronic nerve-related leg pain: a randomised trial.

Question: In people with nerve-related leg pain, does adding neurodynamic treatment to advice to remain active improve leg pain, disability, low back pain, function, global perceived effect and location of symptoms?

Design: Randomised trial with concealed allocation and intention-to-treat analysis.

Participants: Sixty participants with nerve-related leg pain recruited from the community.

Interventions: The experimental group received four sessions of neurodynamic treatment.

Isometric Exercise Above but not Below an Individual's Pain Threshold Influences Pain Perception in People With Lateral Epicondylalgia.

Objective: To examine the acute effects of isometric exercise of different intensities on pain perception in individuals with chronic lateral epicondylalgia.

Materials And Methods: Participants performed 3 experimental tasks completed in a randomized order on separate days: control (no exercise) and isometric wrist extension (10×15 s) at load 20% below (infrathreshold), and 20% above (suprathreshold) an individual's pain threshold. Self-reported pain intensity (11-point numeric rating scales), pressure pain threshold, and pain-free grip were assessed by a blinded examiner before, immediately after, and 30 minutes after task performance.

The effect of exercise therapy on knee adduction moment in individuals with knee osteoarthritis: A systematic review.

Background: Exercise therapy is an evidence-based intervention for the conservative management of knee osteoarthritis. It is hypothesized that exercise therapy could reduce the knee adduction moment. A systematic review was performed in order to verify the effects of exercise therapy on the knee adduction moment in individuals with knee osteoarthritis in studies that also assessed pain and physical function.