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They recently developed guidelines ("Protocol Formats") on how to perform high quality validity and reliability studies of spinal palpatory procedures, which are available on their web site [ 9 ] . They recommend the use of valid palpatory tests so that homogeneous populations with spinal musculoskeletal dysfunction can be selected and treated as part of a controlled clinical trial.
Spinal palpatory procedures have been described in journals [ 10 11 12 ] and textbooks [ 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ] . Static palpation of anatomical landmarks for symmetry, palpation of spinal vertebral joints before, during and after active and passive motion tests, spinal and paraspinal soft tissue palpatory assessment for abnormalities or altered sensitivity are most common.
but attempt to correlate the findings of a palpatory procedure with another measurable outcome.
1. What are the key terms used by authors in the fields of chiropractic, physical therapy, allopathic and osteopathic medicine in defining the validity of spinal palpatory diagnostic tests in patients with spinal neuromuscular dysfunction?
The concept of validity differs in qualitative and quantitative research [ 32 ] . Though it can be argued that palpatory diagnostic procedures are subjective and therefore qualitative, investigators in the field believe they can measure a physiological phenomenon that can be detected by objective means.