Spinal Manipulative Therapy, HRV and pain, SPARC
Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) has been found to be an effective, non-invasive and cost-effective treatment for back pain, and has both local and regional pain-reducing effects. Recent research has suggested that SMT may affect the nervous system, through influencing the incoming/ascending pain signals and/or the sympathetic nervous excitability of the central pain regulating mechanisms.
SPARC is a multicentre randomized clinical trial, that aims to determine the effects of a treatment series consisting of stretching and SMT on heart rate variability (HRV) and pain in a clinical setting in a population of patients with recurrent or persistent neck pain.
Funding
Institutet f枚r Kiropraktisk Neuromuskuloskeletal forskning, IKON
Publications
Galaasen Bakken A, Ax茅n I, Eklund A, O'Neill S. Trials. 2019 Oct 12;20(1):590.
Wirth B, Gassner A, de Bruin ED, Ax茅n I, Swanenburg J, Humphreys BK, Schweinhardt P. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2019 Aug 1;44(15):E914-E926.