Manual Therapy
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 19-25 , February 2010

Real-time feedback improves accuracy of manually applied forces during cervical spine mobilisation

  • Suzanne J. Snodgrass

      Affiliations

    • Discipline of Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Discipline of Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Hunter Building, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia. Tel.: +61 2 49212089; fax: +61 2 49217902.
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  • Darren A. Rivett

      Affiliations

    • School of Health Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Australia
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  • Val J. Robertson

      Affiliations

    • School of Health Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Australia
    • ,
  • Elizabeth Stojanovski

      Affiliations

    • School of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Australia

Received 13 January 2009 ,Revised 5 May 2009 ,Accepted 17 May 2009.

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☆ This work should be attributed to the Discipline of Physiotherapy, School of Health Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Australia.

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doi: 10.1016/j.math.2009.05.011

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