Effect of manual therapy and stretching on neck muscle strength and mobility in chronic neck pain.

Objective: To study the effect of manual therapy and stretching on neck function in women with chronic neck pain.

Methods: A total of 125 women were randomized into 2 groups. Group 1 received manual therapy twice a week for 4 weeks followed by stretching exercises.

Effects of home strength training and stretching versus stretching alone after lumbar disk surgery: a randomized study with a 1-year follow-up.

Objective: To assess the adherence to and effects of a 12-month combined strength and stretching home exercise regimen versus stretching alone, on patient outcome after lumbar disk surgery.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Departments of physical medicine and rehabilitation and orthopedics at a Finnish hospital.

Pain, trunk muscle strength, spine mobility and disability following lumbar disc surgery.

Objective: To study associations between pain, trunk muscle strength, flexibility and disability in patients with lumbar disc herniation 2 months after surgery.

Design: Clinical cross-sectional survey.

Participants: 172 operated lumbar disc herniation patients.

Trunk muscle strength in flexion, extension, and axial rotation in patients managed with lumbar disc herniation surgery and in healthy control subjects.

Study Design: A cross-sectional study was conducted.

Objective: To compare maximal flexion, extension, and rotation strength as well as force-time characteristics of trunk muscles in patients who undergo lumbar disc herniation with those in healthy control subjects 2 months after surgery.

Summary Of Background Data: Insufficient attention has been paid to muscle strength characteristics after lumbar disc herniation surgery.