Rachael Lowe

Rachael Lowe is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Physiopedia. A physiotherapist and technology specialist Rachael has been working with Physiopedia since 2008 to create a resource that provides universal access to physiotherapy knowledge as well as a platform for connecting and educating the global physiotherapy profession.

Immediate effects of the strain/counterstrain technique in local pain evoked by tender points in the upper trapezius muscle

August 8, 2006 by Rachael Lowe

Albert Atienza Meseguer, CÃ©sar FernÃ¡ndez-de-las-PeÃ±as, Jose Luis Navarro-Poza, CleofÃ¡s RodrÃguez-Blanco and Juan JosÃ© BoscÃ¡ Gandia

The aim of this study was to compare the immediate effect, on pain threshold, following a single treatment of tender points in the upper trapezius muscle involving a classical and a modified application of the strain/counterstrain technique. The modified application of the technique included a longitudinal stroke during the application of strain/counterstrain. The results suggest that strain/counterstrain was effective in reducing tenderness of tender points in the upper trapezius muscle, however, the application of a longitudinal stroke during the strain/counterstrain did not influence the effectiveness of the classical description of the technique.

Clinical Chiropractic, Volume 9, Issue 3, September 2006, Pages 112-118

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