Application of the McKenzie system of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT) in patients with shoulder pain; a prospective longitudinal study.

Afshin Heidar Abady Richard RosedaleBert M ChesworthMichael A RotondiTom J Overend

Published in: The Journal of manual & manipulative therapy (2017)

Classifying patients with shoulder pain using the MDT system can impact treatment outcomes and the frequency of discharge. When MDT-trained clinicians are allowed to match the intervention to a specific MDT classification, the outcome is aligned with the response expectation of the classification.Level of Evidence: 2b.

Keyphrases

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