Date: Thu, 3 Mar 1994 22:11:03 -0800 From: Peter Bower Subject: Relavent AMT referances To: Multiple recipients of list C+HEALTH Comments: To: sorehand For those interested here are some of the referances to the AMT (now called neural tissue provocation testing) that I've found: Devor M (1983) Nerve pathophysiology and mechanism of pain in causalgia. J Auton Nerv Syst 7:371-384 Ochoa JL, Torebjork E, Marchetti P, SWok M (1985) Mechanisms of neuropathic pain: cumulative observations, new experiments and further speculation. Adv Pain Res Ther 9: 431-450 Rasminsky M (1984) Ectopic impulse generation in pathological nerve fibres. In: Dyck PJ, Thomas PK, Lambert EH (eds) peripheral neuropathology, 2nd edn. WB Saunders, Philadelphia Seltzer M, Devor M (1979) Ephaptic transmission in chronically damaged peripheral nerves. Neurology (Minneap) 29:1061-1064 Levine JD, Dardick SJ, Basbaum AI, Scipio E (1985) Reflex Neurogenic Inflammation. J of Neurosci Vol 5 No 5: 1380-1386 Elvey RL (1979) Brachial plexus tension tests and the pathoanatomical origin of arm pain. In: Glasgow EF, Twomey L, Aspects of manipulative therapy. Melborne. Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences. 1979: 105-110 Elvey RL (1986) Treatment of arm pain associated with abnormal brachial plexus tension. Aust Journ of Physio. 1986 : Vol 32. No 4. Kenneally, Rubenach, Elvey (1988) The upper limb tension test - The S.L.R. of the arm. Grant R, (ed) Clinics in Physical Therapy. The cervical and thoracic spine. Churchill Livingstone: New York. 1988. MacKinnon SE, (1992) Hand Clinic Vol 8 No 2 May 1992 (the first American M.D. to report the use of the Elvey Test clinically in the diagnosis of brachial and peripheral neuropathies.) Quintner, (1989) Brit. J. of Rheum. 28: 528-533 (M.D. study of Elvey's Test in post MVA patients) Peter Bower, M.D.