Is treatment A more efficacious than treatment B in doing X?

None of the answers are correct

What is the frequency of complications from neck manipulation?

Does emergency surgery for a critical brain tumour help a patient?

Promotes conduction on the pain pathways thereby increasing pain

Suppresses the perception of pain

Intermittent burning pain non-dermatomal in distribution

A specific aching sensation poorly localised

Shooting or lancinating pain felt in a dermatomal distribution

Deep aching pain

False

True

It has low false positive rates

It has low false negative rates

Both of the above

None of the above

All of the above

Decreasing the symptoms of Parkinson's disease

Decreasing cardiovascular risk

Decreasing the risk of Diabetes Mellitus and cancer

Completed with no controls

Completed "naturally"

Completed under clinical practice conditions

Completed in very controlled often "artificial" settings

The cohort study

The case series

The systematic review

The case study

During cervical extension the size and volume of the spinal canal increases

During cervical flexion the size of the spinal canal decreases and volume increases

During cervical flexion the size and volume of the spinal canal remains unchanged

During cervical extension the size and volume of the spinal canal decreases

An increased discharge of spindle afferent fibres

A decreased discharge of spindle afferent fibres

Activation of fusimotor neurons

A reflex contraction of intrafusal muscle fibres

Reductionism

Skeptisism

Determinism

All of the above

Will minimise risk for medico legal action

Will be better informed

Will have better clinical outcomes

Will consider patient preference in decision making

The sensitivity of a test procedure

All of the above

How specific the adjustment is

The ability of a test procedure to exclude false positives

Pathological thickening and folding of the ligamentum flavum resulting in bulging into the IVF

Decreased motion of a vertebral joint

Spinal nerve neuritis

Meniscoid entrapment

Neither the examiner nor the subject groups are aware of the intent of the study

Neither of the intervention or the placebo group is aware of the intent of the study

None of the trial groups are aware of the intent of the study

None of the examiners are aware of the intent of the study