Mark W Werneke, Daniel Deutscher, Dennis L Hart, Paul Stratford, Joel Ladin, Jon Weinberg, Scott Herbowy, Linda Resnik
STUDY DESIGN: Inter-rater chance-corrected agreement study. OBJECTIVE: The aim was to examine the association between therapists' level of formal precredential McKenzie postgraduate training and agreement on the following McKenzie classification variables for patients with low back pain: main McKenzie syndromes, presence of lateral shift, derangement reducibility, directional preference, and centralization. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Minimal level of McKenzie postgraduate training needed to achieve acceptable agreement of McKenzie classification system is unknown...
February 1, 2014: Spine