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  1. Manual therapies are commonly used by healthcare professionals when caring for children. However, few prospective studies have evaluated their adverse events (AEs). This study aims to assess the feasibility of...

    Authors: Anne Dolbec, Chantale Doucet, Katherine A Pohlman, Stéphane Sobczak and Isabelle Pagé
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2024 32:9
  2. The cost of spine-related pain in the United States is estimated at $134.5 billion. Spinal pain patients have multiple options when choosing healthcare providers, resulting in variable costs. Escalation of cos...

    Authors: Ronald Farabaugh, Cheryl Hawk, Dave Taylor, Clinton Daniels, Claire Noll, Mike Schneider, John McGowan, Wayne Whalen, Ron Wilcox, Richard Sarnat, Leonard Suiter and James Whedon
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2024 32:8
  3. While the use of chiropractic care for persistent low back pain (PLBP) is prevalent, chiropractors’ attitudes and beliefs related to PLBP patients are not fully understood. The purpose of this study was to ass...

    Authors: Ryan D. Muller, Jesse Cooper, Jordan A. Gliedt and Katherine A. Pohlman
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2024 32:7
  4. Approximately 1% of low back pain is estimated to be caused by serious systemic diseases, including cancer, infection, or abdominal aortic dissection. This study aimed to determine the frequency of execution o...

    Authors: Danikel Giroux, Chloé Branconnier, André Bussières, Jean Théroux and Marc-André Blanchette
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2024 32:6
  5. Authors: Josef Finsterer, Carla Alexandra Scorza, Fulvio Alexandre Scorza and Antonio-Carlos Guimaraes de Almeida
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2024 32:4

    The original article was published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:34

    The Letter to the Editor to this article has been published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2024 32:5

  6. Single-centre, two-parallel group, methodological randomised controlled trial to assess blinding feasibility.

    Authors: Javier Muñoz Laguna, Emanuela Nyantakyi, Urmila Bhattacharyya, Kathrin Blum, Matteo Delucchi, Felix Karl-Ludwig Klingebiel, Marco Labarile, Andrea Roggo, Manuel Weber, Thomas Radtke, Milo A Puhan and Cesar A Hincapié
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2024 32:3
  7. Databases have become important tools in improving health care. Care Response is a database containing information on tens of thousands of chiropractic patients internationally. It has been collecting patient-...

    Authors: Kenneth J. Young, Helen C. Young and Jonathan Field
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2024 32:2
  8. No previous studies have examined the association between attitudes and beliefs of chiropractors and their adherence to low back pain (LBP) guidelines. The aim of this study is: (1) to assess the attitudes and...

    Authors: Brenda van der Vossen, Annemarie de Zoete, Sidney Rubinstein, Raymond Ostelo and Michiel de Boer
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2024 32:1
  9. The World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 12-item survey (WHODAS-12) is a questionnaire developed by the WHO to measure functioning across health conditions, cultures, and settings. WHOD...

    Authors: Jessica J. Wong, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Wouter De Groote, Agnieszka Ćwirlej-Sozańska, Olatz Garin, Montse Ferrer, Àngels Pont Acuña and Pierre Côté
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:49
  10. Shoulder pain is common among the adult population, but it appears to reduce in prevalence around retirement age. Associations between shoulder pain and work-place exposures, physical activity, or mental healt...

    Authors: Christopher J. Hodgetts, Angela Jacques, Lee Daffin and Yvonne C. Learmonth
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:48
  11. In Denmark, chiropractors have a statutory right to use radiography and the government-funded national Health Insurance provides partial reimbursement. Danish National Clinical Guidelines recommends against ro...

    Authors: Pernille Schaldemose Reibke, Henriette Godskesen, Rikke Krüger Jensen, Simon D French, André Bussières, Henrik Wulff Christensen and Tue Secher Jensen
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:47
  12. Temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) are the most common cause of orofacial pain of non-dental origin, with approximately 42% of diagnoses corresponding to myofascial pain. Manual therapy and dry needling are co...

    Authors: Ángela Menéndez-Torre, Aitor Martín Pintado-Zugasti, Juan Nicolás Cuenca Zaldivar, Paula García-Bermejo, Diego Gómez-Costa, Miguel Molina-Álvarez, Alberto Arribas-Romano and Josué Fernández-Carnero
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:46
  13. Neck pain and headache are highly prevalent conditions and leading causes of disability worldwide. Although MRI is widely used in the management of these conditions, there is uncertainty about the clinical sig...

    Authors: Rikke K. Jensen, Kristina B. Dissing, Tue S. Jensen, Stine H. Clausen and Bodil Arnbak
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:45
  14. Pregnancy-related low back and/or pelvic girdle pain is common, with a prevalence rate of up to 86% in pregnant women. Although 19.5% of Australian pregnant women visit a chiropractor for pelvic girdle pain, l...

    Authors: Maria Bernard-Giglio, Simon D French, Corrie Myburgh and Katie de Luca
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:43
  15. Chiropractors commonly treat pediatric patients within their private practices. The objectives of this study were (1) to identify the treatment techniques and health advice used by Quebec chiropractors with pe...

    Authors: Rebecca Hayes, Camille Imbeau, Katherine A Pohlman, Marc-André Blanchette and Chantale Doucet
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:42
  16. Authors: Melanie Häusler, Rahim Lalji, Léonie Hofstetter and Cesar A. Hincapié
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:41

    The original article was published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:22

  17. Many chiropractors use spinal manipulative techniques (SMT) to treat spinal pain. A recent Delphi study posited 18 items across five domains as predictors of patients experiencing non-specific low back pain mo...

    Authors: Stanley Innes, Reece Granger and Jean Théroux
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:40
  18. Chiropractors use a variety of therapeutic interventions in clinical practice. How the selection of interventions differs across musculoskeletal regions or with different patient and provider characteristics i...

    Authors: Hazel J Jenkins, Aron Downie, Jessica J Wong, James J Young, Eric J Roseen, Casper Glissmann Nim, David McNaughton, Cecilie K Øveras, Jan Hartvigsen, Silvano Mior and Simon D French
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:39
  19. Databases have become an important tool in understanding trends and correlations in health care by collecting demographic and clinical information. Analysis of data collected from large cohorts of patients can...

    Authors: Kenneth J Young, Jane Fitzgerald, Jonathan Field, David Newell and Jim Richards
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:37
  20. Spinal manipulation (SM) is a recommended and effective treatment for musculoskeletal disorders. Biomechanical (kinetic) parameters (e.g. preload/peak force, rate of force application and thrust duration) can ...

    Authors: Lindsay M Gorrell, Luana Nyirö, Mégane Pasquier, Isabelle Pagé, Nicola R Heneghan, Petra Schweinhardt and Martin Descarreaux
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:36
  21. The purpose of this study was to investigate how feedback and self-assessment strategies affect performance and retention of manual skills in a group of chiropractic students.

    Authors: Mégane Pasquier, Sahel Memari, Arnaud Lardon and Martin Descarreaux
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:35
  22. The COVID-19 pandemic had an unprecedented impact on healthcare, and the health of healthcare workers has been subject of much research. However, studies of health-related factors in manual therapists during t...

    Authors: Nathan Weiss, Eva Skillgate and Iben Axén
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:34

    The Letter to the Editor to this article has been published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2024 32:4

  23. Chiropractors’ clinical indicators for recommending preventive continued care to patients with low back pain include previous pain episodes, a history of long pain duration and improvement after initial treatm...

    Authors: Birgitte Lawaetz Myhrvold, Nina K Vøllestad, Pernille Irgens, Hilde Stendal Robinson and Iben Axén
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:33
  24. Few clinical prediction models are available to clinicians to predict the recovery of patients with post-collision neck pain and associated disorders. We aimed to develop evidence-based clinical prediction mod...

    Authors: Maja Stupar, Pierre Côté, Linda J. Carroll, Robert J. Brison, Eleanor Boyle, Heather M. Shearer and J. David Cassidy
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:32
  25. Forward head posture (FHP) is  a common condition where the head appears to be positioned in front of the vertical midline of the body. FHP is associated with shortening of the neck extensors and pectoral musc...

    Authors: Vitsarut Buttagat, Sujittra Kluayhomthong and Pattanasin Areeudomwong
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:31
  26. Within the United States Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the number of patients using healthcare services has increased over the past several decades. Females make up a small proportion of overall patien...

    Authors: Sarah E. Graham, Brian C. Coleman, Xiwen Zhao and Anthony J. Lisi
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:29
  27. Presenting at professional and scientific conferences can be an important part of an individual’s career advancement, especially for researchers communicating scientific findings, and can signal expertise and ...

    Authors: Sasha L Aspinall, Casper Glissmann Nim, Steen Harsted, Amy Miller, Cecilie K Øverås, Eric J Roseen, James J Young, Karen Søgaard, Greg Kawchuk and Jan Hartvigsen
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:28
  28. In this retrospective study, we aimed to develop a nomogram to predict recurrence during a 1-year period of spinal manipulation/mobilization (SM/M) in patients with low back pain (LBP) with greater pain intens...

    Authors: Dai Sun, Yang-yang Liu, Dan Luo, Ye-qi Wu, Zhi-qiang Yan, Yun-qi Liang, Xue-yan Huang, Jia-long Lin, Hua-song Luo and Rui Wang
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:27
  29. Chiropractors use a treatment strategy called maintenance care with the intent of secondary and tertiary prevention. The Nordic Maintenance Care Program provides evidence of when and for whom maintenance care ...

    Authors: Birgitte Lawaetz Myhrvold, Tora Bjørkmann Vikhaug, Alister DuRose, Anne Marie Gausel, Andreas Eklund and Iben Axén
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:26
  30. Low back pain (LBP) is the number one cause of disability world-wide. It is also the most expensive area in healthcare. Patient-centered innovations are needed. This paper uses medical storytelling to illustra...

    Authors: Donald R. Murphy, Brian D. Justice and Jeffrey Borkan
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:25
  31. Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) clinical effects are believed to be linked to its force–time profile characteristics. Previous studies have revealed that the force measured at the patient-table interface is ...

    Authors: Jérémie Mikhail, Martha Funabashi, Stéphane Sobczak, Martin Descarreaux and Isabelle Pagé
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:24
  32. Low back and neck pain are common in the general population, but the prevalence among Canadian post-secondary students is not well known. We aimed to determine the one-week prevalence of neck pain (NP) and low...

    Authors: Alexandra Campbell, Dan Wang, Krystle Martin and Pierre Côté
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:23
  33. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patients’ values and preferences. Little is known about knowledge, attitudes, and application of EBP among...

    Authors: Melanie Häusler, Rahim Lalji, Léonie Hofstetter and Cesar A. Hincapié
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:22

    The Correction to this article has been published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:41

  34. The implementation of electronic health information technologies is a key target for healthcare quality improvement. Among Swiss chiropractors, reliable data on the use of electronic heath information technolo...

    Authors: Cesar A. Hincapié, Léonie Hofstetter, Rahim Lalji, Longin Korner, Mireille C. Schläppi and Serafin Leemann
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:21

    The Correction to this article has been published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:44

  35. A recent randomized controlled trial (RCT) investigating the effect of chiropractic manipulation in 199 children aged 7–14 years with recurrent headaches demonstrated a significant reduction of number of days ...

    Authors: Susanne Lynge, Werner Vach, Kristina Boe Dissing and Lise Hestbaek
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:20
  36. Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) is commonly used to treat musculoskeletal conditions, including thoracic spine pain. Applying patient-specific force-time characteristics are believed to be important to impro...

    Authors: Grand Choi, Dominic Giuliano, Anthony Tibbles, Samuel J. Howarth, Steve Tran, Joyce Lee and Martha Funabashi
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:19
  37. Chiropractors commonly encounter patients who present for spine pain with parallel substance use. There is currently no widespread training within the chiropractic profession to prepare chiropractors to recogn...

    Authors: Jordan A. Gliedt, Maureen Reynolds, Steffany Moonaz, Cynthia R. Long, Robb Russell and Michael J. Schneider
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:18
  38. The emergence of an unprecedented novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-C0V-2), which causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, has created new scenarios in basic life supp...

    Authors: Chun-Cheung Woo
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:16
  39. This commentary closes the thematic series “A new paradigm for musculoskeletal pain care: moving beyond structural impairments”. The papers published in the series point to key aspects of shifting the paradigm...

    Authors: Julie M. Fritz and Alice Kongsted
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:15
  40. Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) is a guideline-recommended treatment option for spinal pain. The recommendation is based on multiple systematic reviews. However, these reviews fail to consider that clinical ...

    Authors: Casper G. Nim, Sasha L. Aspinall, Chad E. Cook, Leticia A. Corrêa, Megan Donaldson, Aron S. Downie, Steen Harsted, Jan Hartvigsen, Hazel J. Jenkins, David McNaughton, Luana Nyirö, Stephen M. Perle, Eric J. Roseen, James J. Young, Anika Young, Gong-He Zhao…
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:14
  41. Chiropractic patients are generally satisfied with the care received. It is unclear if this also applies to Danish patients with lumbar radiculopathy included in a standardised chiropractic care package (SCCP)...

    Authors: Rikke Krüger Jensen, Sille Lillesø, Jack Starche Jensen and Mette Jensen Stochkendahl
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:13
  42. Optimal shaping of contextual factors (CFs) during clinical encounters may be associated with analgesic responses in treatments for musculoskeletal pain. These CFs (i.e., the patient-practitioner relationship,...

    Authors: Bronwyn Sherriff, Carol Clark, Clare Killingback and Dave Newell
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:12
  43. Effective communication is imperative for successful interprofessional collaborative interactions that augment both patient-centred and evidence based care. Inquiry into the prevalence of chiropractic-related ...

    Authors: F. Ismail, M. Pretorius, C. Peterson and C. Yelverton
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:11
  44. This review aimed to identify variables influencing clinicians’ application of spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) for persistent spine pain after lumbar surgery (PSPS-2). We hypothesized markers of reduced clin...

    Authors: Robert J. Trager, Clinton J. Daniels, Kevin W. Meyer, Amber C. Stout and Jeffery A. Dusek
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2023 31:10