Test procedures to assess somatosensory abnormalities in individuals with back pain: a systematic review of psychometric properties

Reliability and validity of manual palpation for the assessment of patients with low back pain: a systematic and critical review

“…In stage 1 screening, 1976 citations were ineligible. Forty-seven papers were reviewed in stage 2, and 31 were excluded: ineligible study population (n = 11) [41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51], inappropriate outcome measure (n = 6) [52][53][54][55][56][57], ineligible publication type (n = 4) [58][59][60][61], ineligible sample size (n = 3) [62][63][64], study design (n = 3) [65][66][67] and did not investigate manual palpation (n = 4) [68][69][70][71]. Two authors were contacted for publication type and age range, both responded [27,59].…”

Musculoskeletal conditions and pain management

“…Work published in this issue from Dr Ramakrishnan Mani and colleagues at the University of Otago, New Zealand focusses on musculoskeletal pain, including: systematic reviews on test procedures for somatosensory abnormalities in low back pain (Alqarni et al) [1], and on risk factors for the development of low back pain (Krisnamurthy et al) [2], as well as a protocol for a cross-sectional online survey of people suffering inflammatory bowel disease with self-reported pain (Falling et al) [3]. The focus of the last paper, while recognised as important by clinicians and people affected, represents a currently under-researched area of health and practice.…”