Manual Therapy
Volume 15, Issue 3 , Pages 212-219 , June 2010

Why do spinal manipulation techniques take the form they do? Towards a general model of spinal manipulation

Received 20 November 2008 ,Revised 21 March 2009 ,Accepted 28 March 2009.

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Manual Therapy
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