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Last name: HEREDIA RIZO
First name: Alberto Marcos
La región cervical es una de las áreas corporales más propensas a sufrir traumas derivados de su uso incorrecto en las actividades de la vida diaria, con los consecuentes costes económicos derivados en las esferas social y laboral (Yip et al. 2008). La pr
Subacromial pain syndrome (SAPS) is a prevalent condition that results in loss of function. Surgery is indicated when pain and functional limitations persist after conservative measures, with scarce evidence about the most-appropriate post-operative approach. Interferential therapy (IFT), as a supplement to other interventions, has shown to...
El síndrome del intestino irritable (SII) es un trastorno funcional multifactorial del tracto digestivo que afecta a una creciente proporción de la población adulta. La consecuente morbilidad derivada de las secuelas del SII genera importantes repercusiones económicas y sociales. Factores alimenticios, hábitos de vida incorrectos, la...
Objective: To summarize current evidence on the potential cross‐sectional and longitudinal association between meaning or purpose in life and subjective happiness or life satisfaction among cancer patients. Methods: A systematic review with meta‐analysis and meta‐regression was conducted. CINAHL (via EBSCOhost), Embase, PubMed, and PsycINFO...
Pain and abnormal somatosensory processing are important associated conditions in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP). Perceived social support is highly relevant for pain perception and coping. Aim: The aim of the present study was to assess the influence of social support on pain sensitivity in children and adolescents with...
Purpose: To evaluate the effect of neural mobilization (NM) in people with disorders associated with chronic secondary musculoskeletal pain due to persistent inflammation or diseases of the nervous system. Methods: A database search was conducted to select randomized controlled trials where NM, alone or within a multimodal protocol, was the...
Objective: To synthesize evidence from systematic reviews on the effects of qigong, tai chi, and yoga in people with neurological diseases. Methods: A systematic search was conducted in PubMed, PsycINFO, Embase, CINAHL and Cochrane Library until September 2022. Methodological quality was assessed using the AMSTAR 2 tool. A qualitative synthesis...
Conducting a systematic review. Should we based our scientific analysis on personal impressions? The present letter is in response to a letter to the editor entitled "Hardly traceable pitfalls in medical review articles",1 recently pub- lished in Complementary Therapies in Medicine. In this letter, co-authors Olaf R. van Loon and A.J. van Loon...
The objective of this study was to characterize the changes of muscle tone, stiffness, and thickness of upper and lower limb muscles in stroke survivors. Forty patients with subacute or chronic stroke and 31 controls were included and measured using myotonometry (MyotonPRO), with multiple site assessments at muscle belly (MB) and...
Parkinson's disease (PD) represents the second most common neurodegenerative disease. Currently, conventional physical therapy is complemented by additional physical interventions with recreational components, improving different motor conditions in people with PD. This review aims to evaluate the effectiveness of additional physical...
Fundamentos: El ictus es la principal causa de discapacidad física en la población adulta. La tecnología al servicio de la medicina aporta nuevas soluciones para la valoración, tratamiento y seguimiento de sujetos con afectaciones neurológicas. El objetivo del presente estudio fue realizar una revisión sobre el uso de aplicaciones móviles...
Purpose Mind–body practices such as qigong, tai chi, or yoga combine physical movements, deep breathing, and meditation techniques aiming to improve how people self-care. Our purpose was to develop an overview of systematic reviews to summarize the available evidence on the effectiveness of mind–body practices for cancer-related symptoms...
Current evidence for widespread hyperalgesia in non-specific neck pain (NSNP) is unclear. It is currently recommended to group NSNP patients according to pain-provoking movements. The aim of this study was to investigate local and widespread pain sensitivity in females with unilateral NSNP that is reproducible during passive neck rotation...
Objective: To investigate the influence of muscle position (relaxed vs stretched) on muscle mechanical properties and the ability of myotonometry to detect differences between sides, groups, and sites of testing in patients with stroke. We also analyzed the association between myotonometry and clinical measures of spasticity. Design:...
Objective: This study aimed to assess the immediate and short-term effects of cervical spinal manipulation, compared with a placebo, on the magnitude of near and distance exophoria in adults with asymptomatic exophoria. Methods: In this single-blind, randomized controlled trial, individuals with a clinical diagnosis of horizontal exophoria...
Objective: The present study aimed to assess the immediate and short-term effect of cervical spinal manipulation (SM), compared with placebo, on the magnitude of near and distance exophoria, in adults with asymptomatic exophoria. Methods: In this single-blinded randomized controlled trial, individuals with a clinical diagnosis of horizontal...
There is a lack of consensus about the measurement of the muscle viscoelastic features in stroke patients. Additionally, the psychometric properties of the most-commonly used clinical tools remain controversial. Our objective is to investigate the validity and reliability of myotonometry to assess viscoelastic muscle features in stroke...
Background: There is controversy regarding the best technique for applying Kinesio Taping (KT), and the theory supporting that skin convolutions may explain its efficacy has recently been challenged. Objective: To compare the immediate and short-term effectiveness of KT tightness on mechanosensitivity and spinal mobility in nonspecific low...
Objective To evaluate the short-term effect on spinal mobility, pain perception, neural mechanosensitivity, and full height recovery after high-velocity, low-amplitude (HVLA) spinal manipulation (SM) in the lumbosacral joint (L5-S1). Design Randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial with evaluations at baseline and after...
Dry needling (DN) is an emerging technique commonly used in neurological and musculoskeletal pain conditions, but there have been no previous studies in patients with multiple sclerosis (pwMS). This trial aims to assess the e_cacy of deep DN, compared with sham placebo DN, on gait performance, spasticity level, pain, electromyographic activity,...
BACKGROUND: Cervical and thoracic spinal manipulative therapy has shown positive impact for relief of pain and improve function in nonspecific mechanical neck pain. Several attempts have been made to compare their effectiveness although previous studies lacked a control group, assessed acute neck pain or combined thrust and non-thrust...