RESEARCH TRENDS 113

Course overview

*Discuss how spinal manipulation can lead to neural plastic changes involving cortical drive and the H-reflex pathway. *Assess the impact of cervical spinal manipulation on heart rate variability. *Assess how somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) can be used to elucidate differences in cortical activity associated with a spinal manipulation (SM) intervention. *Describe alterations in cortical and cerebellar motor processing in subclinical neck pain patients following spinal manipulation. *Apply the effect of spinal manipulation on somato-sympathetic reflexes.