Freddy Kaltenborn died on May 2, 2019. His words and his legacy live on.
Professor Freddy Kaltenborn’s Blog
Orthopedic Medicine / Manipulative Therapy
The theory behind Orthopedic Manipulative Therapy for the spine, is that patients with more or less diminished mobility between two individual vertebrae, with pain that can be provoked upon movement at the vertebral segment, can with specific manual treatment, become symptom‐free or have their condition improved and normal … [read more]
In an ideal world treatment decisions would be based on the evidence revealed by clinical trials. However, many variables affect accurate determinations of cause and effect in arthro-neuro-muscular disorders. The validity of clinical trials in the manual therapies is confounded by many factors. Valid measurement tools for manual … [read more]