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Mulligan Concept

The document outlines principles for applying mobilization with movement (MWM) and sustained natural apophyseal glides (SNAGS) in clinical practice. It states that the therapist identifies a comparable sign during assessment, applies an accessory joint mobilization, and monitors the patient's response to ensure no pain is recreated. The comparable sign should improve with the technique, and gains are expected with repetition during treatment involving sets of motions. Successful techniques render the comparable sign painless and improve function.

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Mulligan Concept

The document outlines principles for applying mobilization with movement (MWM) and sustained natural apophyseal glides (SNAGS) in clinical practice. It states that the therapist identifies a comparable sign during assessment, applies an accessory joint mobilization, and monitors the patient's response to ensure no pain is recreated. The comparable sign should improve with the technique, and gains are expected with repetition during treatment involving sets of motions. Successful techniques render the comparable sign painless and improve function.

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Specific to the application of MWM and SNAGS in clinical practice, the following basic principles have been developed

1. During assessment the therapist will identify one or more comparable signs as described by Maitland. These signs may be a loss of joint movement, pain associated with movement, or pain associated with specific functional activities (i.e., lateral elbow pain with resisted wrist extension, adverse neural tension). 2. A passive accessory joint mobilisation is applied following the principles of Kaltenborn (i.e., parallel or perpendicular to the joint plane). This accessory glide must itself be pain free. 3. The therapist must continuously monitor the patient's reaction to ensure no pain is recreated. Utilising his/her knowledge of joint arthrology, a welldeveloped sense of tissue tension and clinical reasoning, the therapist investigates various combinations of parallel or perpendicular glides to find the correct treatment plane and grade of movement. 4. While sustaining the accessory glide, the patient is requested to perform the comparable sign. The comparable sign should now be significantly improved (i.e., increased range of motion, and a significantly decreased or better yet, absence of the original pain). 5. Failure to improve the comparable sign would indicate that the therapist has not found the correct contact point, treatment plane, grade or direction of mobilisation, spinal segment or that the technique is not indicated. 6. The previously restricted and/or painful motion or activity is repeated by the patient while the therapist continues to maintain the appropriate accessory glide. Further gains are expected with repetition during a treatment session typically involving three sets of ten repetitions. 7. Further gains may be realised through the application of passive overpressure at the end of available range. It is expected that this overpressure is again, pain-free.

Self-treatment is often possible using MWM principles with adhesive tape and/or the patient providing the glide component of the MWM and the patient's own efforts to produce the active movement. Pain is always the guide. Successful MWM and Snags techniques should render the comparable sign painless while significantly improving function during the application of the technique. Sustained improvements are necessary to justify ongoing intervention.

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