In many instances , no or minimal attempts to screen were undertaken or reported .
Background Subacromial shoulder pain is a common clinical presentation with much diagnostic uncertainty .
Some of this uncertainty relates to the involvement of the cervical spine as a source or contribution to subacromial shoulder pain .
Currently , there is no accepted method of screening of the cervical spine in the presence of subacromial shoulder pain , which risks patients receiving misguided and /or ineffective interventions .
Objective To evaluate approaches used to screen the cervical spine in patients with subacromial shoulder pain .
One-week time course of the effects of Mulligan's Mobilisation with Movement and taping in painful shoulders.
Previous research suggests that Mulligan 's Mobilisation-with-Movement ( MWM ) technique for the shoulder produces an immediate improvement in movement and pain . The aims of this study were to investigate the time course of the effects of a single MWM technique and to ascertain the effects of adding tape following MWM in people with shoulder pain . Twenty-five participants ( 15 males , 10 females ) , who responded positively to an initial application of MWM , were r and omly assigned to MWM or MWM-with-Tape .  Range of movement ( ROM ) , pressure pain threshold ( PPT ) and current pain severity ( PVAS ) were measured pre- and post-intervention , 30-min , 24-h and one week follow-up . Following a one-week washout period , participants were crossed over to receive a single session of the opposite intervention with follow-up measures repeated . ROM significantly improved with MWM-with-Tape and was sustained over one week follow-up ( p < 0.001 ; 18.8 ° , 95 % confidence intervals ( CI ) 7.3 - 30.4 ) , and in PVAS up to 30-min follow-up ( 38.4 mm , 95 % CI 20.6 - 56.1 mm ) . MWM demonstrated an improvement in ROM ( 11.8 ° , 95 % CI 1.9 - 21.7 ) and PVAS ( 40.4 mm , 95 % CI 27.8 - 53.0 mm ) , but only up to 30-min follow-up . There was no significant improvement in PPT for either intervention at any time point . MWM-with-Tape significantly improved ROM over the one-week follow-up compared to MWM alone ( 15.9 ° , 95 % CI 7.4 - 24.4 ) . Both MWM and MWM-with-Tape  provide a short-lasting improvement in pain and ROM , and MWM-with-Tape also provides a sustained improvement in ROM to one-week follow-up , which is superior to MWM alone
In many instances , no or minimal attempts to screen were undertaken or reported .
Background Subacromial shoulder pain is a common clinical presentation with much diagnostic uncertainty .
Some of this uncertainty relates to the involvement of the cervical spine as a source or contribution to subacromial shoulder pain .
Currently , there is no accepted method of screening of the cervical spine in the presence of subacromial shoulder pain , which risks patients receiving misguided and /or ineffective interventions .
Objective To evaluate approaches used to screen the cervical spine in patients with subacromial shoulder pain .