The Advanced Trauma Life Support®(ATLS®) course was developed in 1978 by the
American College of Surgeons, and its accompanying textbook, Advanced Trauma Life …

Neck pain is the fourth leading cause of disability. 1 Adult population (ages 15–74 years)
shows a point prevalence ranging from 5.9% 2 to 38.7%. 3 The 1-year prevalence of neck …

The Orthopaedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) has an
ongoing effort to create evidence-based practice guidelines for orthopaedic physical therapy …

INTERVENTIONS≈ STRETCHING ENERCISES: Flexibility exercises can be used for
patients with neck symptoms. Examination and targeted flexibility exercises for the following …

Purpose To develop an evidence-based guideline for the management of grades I–III neck
pain and associated disorders (NAD). Methods This guideline is based on recent systematic …

Objective To review the evidence on diagnostic accuracy of red flag signs and symptoms to
screen for fracture or malignancy in patients presenting with low back pain to primary …

Over the last decade, numerous concussion evidence-based clinical practice guidelines
(CPGs), consensus statements, and clinical guidance documents have been published …

Background: There is controversy about which children with minor head injury need to
undergo computed tomography (CT). We aimed to develop a highly sensitive clinical …

Clinical prediction rules, sometimes called clinical decision rules, have proliferated in recent
years. However, very few have undergone formal impact analysis, the standard of evidence …

Background The Canadian C-Spine (cervical-spine) Rule (CCR) and the National
Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) Low-Risk Criteria (NLC) are decision …