Utilização da terapia manipulativa para o tratamento de cervicalgia

Abstract

Neck pain causes significant in the lives of individuals, including those functional and occupational limitation losses. It is considered one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders among the general population, can two out of three people experience neck pain during their lifetime and one-third of adults will experience in the course of a year. The treatment of neck pain is based on the use of said conventional physiotherapy with or without adjuvant treatment such as manual therapy. The general aim of this paper is to investigate the techniques employed by manual therapy for neck pain described in the literature. The study was the type of bibliographic exploratory and descriptive, including articles that reported the use of manual therapy techniques, with emphasis on the use of manipulation, mobilization and supervised exercise in the treatment of neck pain. The analysis shows that the articles manipulative therapy constitutes an effective method with regard to both cervical pain relief in the short term and in the long term and it is also used manipulation of the thoracic spine, seeking the cause of the injury be treated in a distant place of its occurrence.