O efeito da terapia manual para cervicalgia

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Daniela Maria da
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Francine Ianhez Lisboa de, Leal, Roberta Souza
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório do Centro Universitário Braz Cubas
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/handle/123456789/379
• topic: Cervicalgia; Dor; Coluna vertebral; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::FISIOTERAPIA E TERAPIA OCUPACIONAL

Neck pain is a type of body syndromes and the second major source of spinal pain, being prevalent in both genders and age groups. Management of this conditional is not always easy, especially in chronic conditions. Manual Therapy is group of techniques that has several clinical applications and has risen in popularity amongst physiotherapy professionals and that can also be applied as the treatment for neck pain. As such, on the present work, a bibliographic search was conducted with the objective of determining the efficacy of Manual Therapy in resolving conditions of neck pain. Preliminary results are promising, with many publications demonstrating a real efficacy on pain reduction, quality of life improvement and total resolution, although, is was observed the necessity of further research to determine which of the available techniques are the most efficient.