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A violinist with persistent shoulder pain, which had led to his inability to perform for 4 mos, was found to play regularly with extreme external rotation of his violin and left shoulder. Intensive manual and physiotherapy did not cure this problem. A combination of manual and music medicine focusing on analyzing and changing instrumental movement patterns was able to resolve this pain problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Disorders of the loco-motor system are frequent and expensive. The current method of diagnosing and treating these disorders does not appear to be successful., Diagnostics: A functional approach based on the model of the functional system incorporates all aspects relevant to disorders of the loco-motor system. Most disturbances the system can compensate. If compensating mechanisms are not sufficient, the system decompensates, and symptoms develop. It is important to search not only for structural changes but also for somatic dysfunction, psychosocial factors, and changes in neuromodulation. On this basis, treatment strategies can be developed. If there are complex disturbances on different levels, a multimodal interdisciplinary treatment is indicated. The model of the functional system highlights the important role of manual medicine in the diagnostics, treatment, prevention, and rehabilitation of disorders of the loco-motor system., (© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Medizin Verlag GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature.)

Background: Low back pain (LBP) is common. Motor-control-dysfunctions (MCD) might play an important role in the development of LBP., Objectives: Find reliable and valid clinical tests to identify MCD in patients with LBP., Data Sources: PubMed and Medline Library databases were searched over a period of ten years till November 2019., Data Extraction: Studies examining clinical tests for MCD published in English or German were included. Studies examining clinical outcome, apparatus-based tests or acute pain were excluded. The inclusion/exclusion was determined by stated criteria and consensus between two reviewers. The risk of bias was examined by the critical appraisal tool (Brink and Louw, 2012)., Methods: The studies were assessed according to aim, population and methods and by implementing criteria from literature (Landies and Koch, 1977; Portney and Watkins, 2015)., Results: Nine studies (376 patients, 23 tests) met the inclusion criteria. 22 tests examined interrater reliability, five measured intra-rater-reliability, and five assessed the construct/discriminative validity. Fifteen tests showed good/very good interrater-reliability. The intra-rater-reliability ranged from moderate to good. Two studies evaluated construct validity with good results, and one discriminative validity with poor results., Conclusions: Tests with good reliability should be considered for validity testing DISCUSSION: Of all the tests reviewed, two can be recommended for clinical use. All the other tests should undergo further evaluation or be reconsidered., Limitations: Relevant studies might be missed, since they were older than ten years, not included in the searched databases, be published in other languages, or were not picked up by the set criteria., Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The work was supportet by the Deutsche Stiftung Manuelle Medizin, (Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)

Treatment modalities of spinal pain patients are discussed diversely, and different multimodal therapy programs have been developed. Purpose of the present study was to evaluate therapy outcome and effectiveness of an inpatient interdisciplinary and multimodal treatment program.This prospective multicentre clinical trial has been performed with patients from orthopedic hospitals receiving a functional musculoskeletal therapy pathway. Outcome measures were pain intensity and back-specific function (Oswestry Disability Index) before (T1) and after the intervention (T2) as well as after 6 and 12 months (T3, T4). Statistical approach included parametric (t test) and nonparametric (Wilcoxon-test) tests and the calculation of effect sizes. Additionally, a statistical subgroup analysis based on selected parameters (degree of pain chronicity, gender, and age) was performed using linear mixed models.In total, 249 patients (42.6% men, 57.4% women) with spinal pain were included, 133 patients were accessible for follow-up at T3 and 106 patients at T4.Average pain (AP) reduced significantly (P <.001) from T1 to T4 with an effect size of 0.99. Back-specific function also improved (P <.001) over all measuring time points (TP) (effect size: 0.63). Furthermore, the statistical subgroup analysis demonstrated the efficacy of the treatment concept within the subgroup parameters chronicity degree and age.A functional musculoskeletal therapy pathway including treatment of musculoskeletal dysfunctions appears to be beneficial in terms of treating pain and function. Pain chronicity and age seems to be factors influencing therapy outcome. Further studies are needed to examine the superiority of these inpatient programs for back pain including control groups.