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Lower Cervical and Upper Thoracic Mobilisation in the Horse. Manual Therapies are Dose Dependent and an Increase in Patient Mass is Normally Associated with an Increase in Dose.

Tom Ahern — Knockdown Lodge, 17 Keymer Street, Ascot, 6104, Western Australia
Published 7 May 2025 Vol. 21 No. 3 (2025), pp. 150-153 ● Open access
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Abstract

Numerous manual therapy techniques have been developed to deal with musculoskeletal pain, stiffness and associated spinal joint  restrictions or loss of range of movement. Cervical vertebral mobilisation under anaesthetic was one of these. It was specifically  developed to deliver an adequate and maintained dose or pressure when attempting to restore lost range of movement in the lower  cervical and upper thoracic joint complexes of the horse. There was however a perceived reluctance amongst clinicians to explore this  approach. They understandably preferred to utilise modalities that they were more comfortable with even though these were less likely  to deliver a therapeutic dose. 

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