Neck Pain Tool-kit: Step 2

This page is part of the 'Manual Therapy & Exercise for Neck Pain: Clinical Treatment Tool-kit' resource for clinical decision making, which provides evidence, techniques, and dosages for the use of manual therapy and exercise in the treatment of neck pain. Please see the main project page for further information, or to return to Step 1 to identify your patient. Otherwise, proceed to Step 2 below to determine the evidence.

Step 2: Determine the evidence

• The evidence regarding the use of manual therapy and exercise for the treatment of neck pain is presented below, organized by patient characteristics
  

• Once you have found the evidence most applicable to your patient, click on ‘Step 3-inform your technique’ to see the techniques utilized in the positive studies for that patient population

2.1 Neck pain alone (non-specific)

Acute/subacute neck pain

Manual therapy

Author, year of original studies	Participant characteristics	Intervention	Comparison	Pain	Function/Disability	GPE	Patient Satisfaction	QoL
Cleland 2007
Gonzalez-Iglesias 2009
Egwu 2008