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  1. Falls are a major health concern for older adults and their impact is a significant public health problem. The chief modifiable risk factors for falls in community-dwellers are psychotropic drugs, polypharmacy...

    Authors: Cheryl Hawk, John K Hyland, Ronald Rupert, Makasha Colonvega and Stephanie Hall

    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2006 14:3

    Content type: Research

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  3. Given the relative lack of treatment options for mild to moderate scoliosis, when the Cobb angle measurements fall below the 25–30° range, conservative manual therapies for scoliosis treatment have been increa...

    Authors: Mark W Morningstar and Timothy Joy

    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2006 14:1

    Content type: Case report

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  4. Screening for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a commonly performed procedure for school children during the high risk years. The PRECEDE-PROCEDE (PP) model is a health promotion planning model that ha...

    Authors: Timothy A Mirtz, Mark A Thompson, Leon Greene, Lawrence A Wyatt and Cynthia G Akagi

    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2005 13:25

    Content type: Research

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  5. There is little homogeneity of opinion in the chiropractic profession about its essence and identity. Matters compromising the establishment of a coherent identity include the issue of vertebral subluxation, p...

    Authors: Keith H Charlton

    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2005 13:24

    Content type: Debate

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  7. Continuing Education (CE) for chiropractors is mandatory for licensure in most North American jurisdictions. Numerous chiropractic colleges have begun collaborating with universities to offer master's degree p...

    Authors: Kent J Stuber, Jaroslaw P Grod, Dean L Smith and Paul Powers

    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2005 13:22

    Content type: Research

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  8. Low back pain (LBP) is the most prevalent musculo-skeletal condition in rural and remote Australian Aboriginal communities. Smoking, physical inactivity and obesity are also prevalent amongst Indigenous people...

    Authors: Dein Vindigni, Bruce F Walker, Jennifer R Jamison, Cliff Da Costa, Lynne Parkinson and Steve Blunden

    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2005 13:21

    Content type: Research

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  11. We report on a multidisciplinary focus group project related to the appropriate care of chiropractic patients who present with chest pain. The prevalence and clinical management, both diagnosis and treatment, ...

    Authors: Monica Smith, Dana J Lawrence and Robert M Rowell

    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2005 13:18

    Content type: Research

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  12. Subluxation syndrome is a legitimate, potentially testable, theoretical construct for which there is little experimental evidence. Acceptable as hypothesis, the widespread assertion of the clinical meaningfuln...

    Authors: Joseph C Keating Jr, Keith H Charlton, Jaroslaw P Grod, Stephen M Perle, David Sikorski and James F Winterstein

    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2005 13:17

    Content type: Debate

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  13. This review details the anatomy and interactions of the postural and somatosensory reflexes. We attempt to identify the important role the nervous system plays in maintaining reflex control of the spine and po...

    Authors: Mark W Morningstar, Burl R Pettibon, Heidi Schlappi, Mark Schlappi and Trevor V Ireland

    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2005 13:16

    Content type: Review

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  16. This descriptive review provides a summary of the prevalence, activity limitation (disability), care-seeking, natural history and clinical course, treatment outcome, and costs of low back pain (LBP) in primary...

    Authors: Peter M Kent and Jennifer L Keating

    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2005 13:13

    Content type: Review

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  17. Part II of this review examines the functional "short leg" or unloaded leg length alignment asymmetry, including the relationship between an anatomic and functional leg-length inequality. Based on the reviewed...

    Authors: Gary A Knutson

    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2005 13:12

    Content type: Review

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  18. Leg-length inequality is most often divided into two groups: anatomic and functional. Part I of this review analyses data collected on anatomic leg-length inequality relative to prevalence, magnitude, effects ...

    Authors: Gary A Knutson

    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2005 13:11

    Content type: Review

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  20. More than 100 years after its inception the chiropractic profession has failed to define itself in a way that is understandable, credible and scientifically coherent. This failure has prevented the profession ...

    Authors: Craig F Nelson, Dana J Lawrence, John J Triano, Gert Bronfort, Stephen M Perle, R Douglas Metz, Kurt Hegetschweiler and Thomas LaBrot

    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2005 13:9

    Content type: Debate

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  24. This paper comments on the role and emergence of the biopsychosocial model in modern medical literature and health care settings. The evolution of the biopsychosocial model and its close association with moder...

    Authors: Benjamin T Brown, Rod Bonello and Henry Pollard

    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2005 13:5

    Content type: Review

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  28. Both chiropractic and osteopathy are over a century old. They are now regarded as complementary health professions. There is an imperative for both professions to research the principles and claims that underp...

    Authors: Bruce F Walker, Simon D French and Melainie Cameron

    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2005 13:1

    Content type: Editorial

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