This is a YouTube video by Jeff Langmaid (published Nov 28, 2023) introducing and discussing a new BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders study comparing fascia therapy and fascia manipulation for chronic neck pain. The opening frames the topic by noting neck pain’s high prevalence, its prominence as a reason patients seek chiropractic care, and gives standard duration-based definitions (acute, subacute, chronic).
This week. We are talking fascia on today's episode. I'll drop a link, of course, to the paper down in the show notes a brand new study that came out titled Effects of Fascia Therapy versus Fascia Manipulation on Pain, Range of Motion and Function in Patients with Chronic Neck Pain. Brand new study. We're going to dive into it and extract some clinical pearls along the way. And this is a study that came out in bmc Musculoskeletal disorders. Neck pain is the fourth most common cause of neck disability and most people do recover from it. So that's the good news. The bad news news is this is super common. It's one of the top three things that draw people into a chiropractic practice to start low back headache neck Top three items on why people initially begin chiropractic care and the duration does matter. Of course, it is acute if the period of neck pain is less than six weeks, subacute if less than three months and if it's three to six months, then it is considered chronic.
