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Commentary
There is an increasing awareness, interest and acceptance of the biopsychosocial (BPS) model by all health care professionals involved with patient care. The areas of spine care and pain medicine are no except...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:16
Published on: 7 June 2017
Research
It is known that not all chiropractors follow mainstream guidelines on the use of diagnostic ionising radiation. Various reasons have been discussed in the literature, including using radiography to screen for...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:14
Published on: 8 May 2017
Research
Over the past 20 years, various authors have addressed the question of the future of chiropractic. Most were positive about the future, with some advocating evidence-based practice and integration with mainstr...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:15
Published on: 8 May 2017
Research
Indigenous people make up approximately 3% of the total Australian population and score poorer on all health indices, including back pain. Chiropractors are well placed to alleviate back pain, yet there is no ...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:13
Published on: 2 May 2017
Research
Manual therapy according to the School of Manual Therapy Utrecht (MTU) is a specific type of passive manual joint mobilization. MTU has not yet been systematically compared to other manual therapies and physic...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:12
Published on: 28 April 2017
Review
The Keele STarT Back Tool was designed for primary care medical physicians in the UK to determine the risk for persistent disabling pain in patients with musculoskeletal pain and to tailor treatments according...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:11
Published on: 21 April 2017
Systematic review
Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis is the most common spinal deformity occurring in adolescents and its established prevalence varies from 2 to 3%. Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis has been identified as a potenti...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:10
Published on: 20 April 2017
Systematic review
Chiropractors are primarily concerned with musculoskeletal disorders but have the responsibility to deal also with prevention in other areas.
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:9
Published on: 20 March 2017
Research
Prone hip extension (PHE) is a common and widely accepted test used for assessment of the lumbo-pelvic movement pattern. Considerable increased in lumbar lordosis during this test has been considered as impair...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:8
Published on: 16 March 2017
Debate
The philosophy of chiropractic has been a much debated entity throughout the existence of the chiropractic profession. Much criticism has been passed upon the historical philosophy of chiropractic and propagat...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:7
Published on: 6 March 2017
Hypothesis
The chiropractic profession emerged when scientific explanations for causes of health and disease were still in infancy and the co-existence of notions such as innate healing and vitalism were perhaps admissib...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:6
Published on: 13 February 2017
Research
Chiropractors frequently practice within health care systems requiring the business acumen of an entrepreneur. However, some chiropractors do not know the relationship between the level of business knowledge r...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:3
Published on: 6 February 2017
Case report
A brief overview of failed back surgery syndrome, with emphasis on low back pain status post spinal cord stimulation, and post-surgical spinal manipulation is presented.
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:5
Published on: 6 February 2017
Systematic review
Sports injuries are often described as overuse or traumatic. Little is known about the frequency of overuse injuries and, in particular, if they vary between different types of sporting activities.
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:4
Published on: 13 January 2017
Systematic review
Although many conservative management options are available for patients with non-surgical shoulder conditions, there is little evidence of their effectiveness. This review investigated one manual therapy appr...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:1
Published on: 4 January 2017
Research
The reliability of musculoskeletal diagnostic ultrasound imaging (MSK-DUSI) for the evaluation of neck musculature has been sparsely documented in the research literature. Until now, research has featured a li...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2017 25:2
Published on: 4 January 2017
Research
This is a secondary analysis of three previous studies on the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spines. It uses continuous analysis of the stiffest spinal site rather than more typical level-by-level analysis to ...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2016 24:50
Published on: 20 December 2016
Research
The objective of this study was to estimate the effect of obesity, as measured by body mass index (BMI), on treatment outcomes for low back pain (LBP).
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2016 24:48
Published on: 12 December 2016
Methodology
Various models and decision-making aids exist for chiropractic clinical practice.
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2016 24:49
Published on: 12 December 2016
Review
Manual therapy is often used for patients with neck pain with or without radicular symptoms. There is sparse evidence on the effectiveness in cervical radiculopathy. The aim of this study was to assess current...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2016 24:45
Published on: 9 December 2016
Systematic review
Councils of Chiropractic Education (CCE) indirectly influence patient care and safety through their role of ensuring the standards of training delivered by chiropractic educational institutions. This is achiev...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2016 24:46
Published on: 7 December 2016
Research
The mechanisms of clinical pain relief associated with spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) are poorly understood. Our objective was to determine whether lumbar high-velocity low-amplitude SMT altered pressure pa...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2016 24:47
Published on: 5 December 2016
Research
Anatomy apps supplement traditional learning; however, it is unknown if their use can improve students’ outcome. The present study examined whether the use of anatomy apps improved student performance on a neu...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2016 24:44
Published on: 1 December 2016
Systematic review
Sporting activities can cause injuries and overuse injuries of the extremities (OIE) in children have been shown to be more common than injuries caused by trauma. The lower extremity is more frequently affecte...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2016 24:41
Published on: 15 November 2016
Debate
The purported relationship between cervical manipulative therapy (CMT) and stroke related to vertebral artery dissection (VAD) has been debated for several decades. A large number of publications, from case re...
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2016 24:43
Published on: 5 November 2016
