Michael A Seffinger

Summary

Affiliation: Western University of Health Sciences
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Reliability of spinal palpation for diagnosis of back and neck pain: a systematic review of the literature
    Michael A Seffinger
    Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA
    Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 29:E413-25. 2004
  2. ncbi Content validity of manual spinal palpatory exams - A systematic review
    Wadie I Najm
    Department of Family Medicine and Geriatrics, University of California, Irvine, Medical Center, 101 City Drive, Orange, CA 92868, USA
    BMC Complement Altern Med 3:1. 2003
  3. ncbi Searching biomedical databases on complementary medicine: the use of controlled vocabulary among authors, indexers and investigators
    Linda S Murphy
    Science Library Reference Department, University of California, Irvine 926233 9557, USA
    BMC Complement Altern Med 3:3. 2003
  4. ncbi Spinal palpation: The challenges of information retrieval using available databases
    Linda S Murphy
    Susan Samueli Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, University of California Irvine, College of Medicine, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
    J Manipulative Physiol Ther 26:374-82. 2003

Detail Information

Publications5

  1. ncbi Reliability of spinal palpation for diagnosis of back and neck pain: a systematic review of the literature
    Michael A Seffinger
    Department of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA
    Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 29:E413-25. 2004
    ..A systematic review...
  2. ncbi Content validity of manual spinal palpatory exams - A systematic review
    Wadie I Najm
    Department of Family Medicine and Geriatrics, University of California, Irvine, Medical Center, 101 City Drive, Orange, CA 92868, USA
    BMC Complement Altern Med 3:1. 2003
    ..To evaluate the status of the current scientific evidence, we conducted a systematic review to assess the content validity of spinal palpatory tests used to identify spinal neuro-musculoskeletal dysfunction...
  3. ncbi Searching biomedical databases on complementary medicine: the use of controlled vocabulary among authors, indexers and investigators
    Linda S Murphy
    Science Library Reference Department, University of California, Irvine 926233 9557, USA
    BMC Complement Altern Med 3:3. 2003
    ..We hypothesized that authors, investigators and indexers in four biomedical databases are not consistent in their use of terminology in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM)...
  4. ncbi Spinal palpation: The challenges of information retrieval using available databases
    Linda S Murphy
    Susan Samueli Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, University of California Irvine, College of Medicine, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
    J Manipulative Physiol Ther 26:374-82. 2003
    ..first, what is the yield of PubMed MEDLINE for complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) studies compared to other databases; second, what is an effective search strategy to answer a sample research question on spinal palpation?..