Abstract
Current knowledge regarding biomechanical in vivo deep tissue measures related to spinal manipulation remain somewhat limited. More in vivo animal studies are needed to better understand the effects viscoelastic tissue properties (i.e., dampening) have on applied spinal manipulation forces. This new knowledge may eventually help to determine whether positive clinical outcomes are associated with particular force thresholds reaching superficial and/or deep spinal tissues. A computer-controlled feedback motor and a modified Activator V device with a dynamic load cell attached were used to deliver thrust spinal manipulations at various magnitudes to the L7 spinous process in deeply anesthetized animals. Miniature pressure catheters (Millar SPR-1000) were inserted unilaterally into superficial and deep multifidi muscles. Measurements of applied mechanical forces and superficial/deep multifidi intramuscular pressure changes were recorded during spinal manipulations delivered in vivo. Manipulative forces and net changes in intramuscular pressures reaching deep spinal tissues are greatly diminished by viscoelastic properties of in vivo tissues, which could have possible clinical safety and/or mechanistic implications.
Funder
National Institutes of Health/National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
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