The usefulness of clinical measures of psychologic factors in patients with spinal painDonald R Murphy
Clinical Director, Rhode Island Spine Center, Pawtucket, USA
J Manipulative Physiol Ther 34:609-13. 2011
..The purposes of this study were to investigate whether a screening procedure could capture important psychologic factors with minimum burden to the patient and to investigate whether correlations exist among the various psychologic factors...
Cervical spondylosis with spinal cord encroachment: should preventive surgery be recommended?Donald R Murphy
Rhode Island Spine Center, Pawtucket, RI 02860 6059, USA
Chiropr Osteopat 17:8. 2009
..The evidence behind claims of increased risk is investigated as well as the evidence regarding the risk of decompression surgery...
- Outcome of pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain treated according to a diagnosis-based decision rule: a prospective observational cohort study
Donald R Murphy
Rhode Island Spine Center, Pawtucket, RI 02860, USA
J Manipulative Physiol Ther 32:616-24. 2009
..The purpose of this study was to describe the clinical outcomes of patients with pregnancy-related lumbopelvic pain (PRLP) treated according to a diagnosis-based clinical decision rule...
- A nonsurgical approach to the management of patients with lumbar radiculopathy secondary to herniated disk: a prospective observational cohort study with follow-up
Donald R Murphy
Rhode Island Spine Center, Pawtucket, RI 02860, USA
J Manipulative Physiol Ther 32:723-33. 2009
..This study presents the outcomes of patients with lumbar radiculopathy secondary to disk herniation treated after a diagnosis-based clinical decision rule...
- Current understanding of the relationship between cervical manipulation and stroke: what does it mean for the chiropractic profession?
Donald R Murphy
Rhode Island Spine Center, 600 Pawtucket Avenue, Pawtucket, RI 02860, USA
Chiropr Osteopat 18:22. 2010
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- Uterine fibroid mimicking lumbar radiculopathy: a case report
Donald R Murphy
RI Spine Center, Providence, RI 02860, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 35:E1435-7. 2010
..Case report...
- The establishment of a primary spine care practitioner and its benefits to health care reform in the United States
Murphy R Donald
Clinical Director, Rhode Island Spine Center, 600 Pawtucket Avenue, Pawtucket, RI 02860 USA
Chiropr Man Therap 19:17. 2011
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- Application of a diagnosis-based clinical decision guide in patients with neck pain
Donald R Murphy
Rhode Island Spine Center, 600 Pawtucket Avenue, Pawtucket, RI 02860 USA
Chiropr Man Therap 19:19. 2011
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- Application of a diagnosis-based clinical decision guide in patients with low back pain
Donald R Murphy
Rhode Island Spine Center, 600 Pawtucket Avenue, Pawtucket, RI 02860 USA
Chiropr Man Therap 19:26. 2011
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- Cervical myelopathy: a case report of a "near-miss" complication to cervical manipulation
Donald R Murphy
Rhode Island Spine Center, Pawtucket, RI 02860, USA
J Manipulative Physiol Ther 31:553-7. 2008
..The purpose of this article is to report a case in which a patient with radiculopathy secondary to herniated disk was scheduled to receive manipulation but just before receiving this treatment developed acute myelopathy...
- Transitional cell carcinoma of the urethra [correction of ureter] in a patient with buttock pain: a case report
Donald R Murphy
Rhode Island Spine Center, Providence, RI 02860, USA
Arch Phys Med Rehabil 89:150-2. 2008
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- A theoretical model for the development of a diagnosis-based clinical decision rule for the management of patients with spinal pain
Donald R Murphy
Rhode Island Spine Center, Pawtucket, RI, USA
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 8:75. 2007
..The challenges of diagnosis in patients with spinal pain, however, are that spinal pain is often multifactorial, the factors involved are wide ranging, and for most of these factors there exist no definitive objective tests...
- A non-surgical approach to the management of lumbar spinal stenosis: a prospective observational cohort study
Donald R Murphy
Rhode Island Spine Center, Pawtucket, RI 02860, USA
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 7:16. 2006
..The purpose of this paper is to describe the clinical outcomes of a novel approach to patients with LSS that focuses on distraction manipulation (DM) and neural mobilization (NM)...
A nonsurgical approach to the management of patients with cervical radiculopathy: a prospective observational cohort studyDonald R Murphy
Department of Community Health, Brown University Medical School, Providence RI, USA
J Manipulative Physiol Ther 29:279-87. 2006
..The objective of this study was to describe the clinical outcomes of patients with cervical radiculopathy (CR) treated nonsurgically after a diagnosis-based decision rule...
- Return to work after two years of total disability: a case report
Donald R Murphy
Rhode Island Spine Center, 600 Pawtucket Avenue, Pawtucket, 02860, USA
J Occup Rehabil 16:253-60. 2006
..We thought it would be informative to illustrate the clinical approach we took with this case because of the history of long term pain and disability...
- Interexaminer reliability of the hip extension test for suspected impaired motor control of the lumbar spine
Donald R Murphy
Department of Community Health, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI, USA
J Manipulative Physiol Ther 29:374-7. 2006
..The purpose of this study is to evaluate the interexaminer reliability of the hip extension test for suspected dynamic instability of the lumbar spine in patients with chronic low back pain...
- Herniated disc with radiculopathy following cervical manipulation: nonsurgical management
Donald R Murphy
Rhode Island Spine Center, and Department of Community Health, Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI 02860, USA
Spine J 6:459-63. 2006
..A postmanipulation complication being treated with a different form of manipulation has not previously been reported...
- Cervical epidural abscess in an afebrile patient: a case report
Donald R Murphy
Rhode Island Spine Center, Providence, RI 02860, USA
J Manipulative Physiol Ther 29:672-5. 2006
..The aim of the study was to discuss a case of cervical epidural abscess and present the clinical features and diagnosis of this disorder...
- Manipulation in the presence of cervical spinal cord compression: a case series
Donald R Murphy
Rhode Island Spine Center, Pawtucket, RI, USA
J Manipulative Physiol Ther 29:236-44. 2006
..The purpose of this study is to present information from a series of patients with imaging findings of encroachment on the cervical spinal cord who were treated with chiropractic cervical manipulation...
- Validity of manual examination in assessing patients with neck pain
Donald R Murphy
Spine J 7:508. 2007
- Clinical considerations in the chiropractic management of the patient with Marfan syndrome
Donald R Murphy
J Manipulative Physiol Ther 25:542. 2002
