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  1. Evidence-based practice (EBP) is integral to the delivery of high-quality health care. Chiropractic has been a licensed health profession in Sweden since 1989, but little is known of the uptake of EBP in this ...

    Authors: Matthew J. Leach, Per J. Palmgren, Oliver P. Thomson, Gary Fryer, Andreas Eklund, Stina Lilje, Jon Adams, Eva Skillgate and Tobias Sundberg
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2021 29:2
  2. The inflammatory profiles of patients with acute and chronic nonspecific low back pain (LBP) patients are distinct. Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) has been shown to modulate the production of nociceptive ch...

    Authors: Julita A. Teodorczyk-Injeyan, John J. Triano, Robert Gringmuth, Christopher DeGraauw, Adrian Chow and H. Stephen Injeyan
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2021 29:3
  3. To investigate the effectiveness of chiropractic spinal manipulation versus sham manipulation in children aged 7–14 with recurrent headaches.

    Authors: Susanne Lynge, Kristina Boe Dissing, Werner Vach, Henrik Wulff Christensen and Lise Hestbaek
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2021 29:1
  4. Interprofessional team-based care has been widely adopted in elite level athletic health and performance practice. Chiropractors can claim some penetration as health care service providers in high level sport....

    Authors: Joachim Hostrup, Anders Koza and Corrie Myburgh
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:69
  5. Low back pain (LBP) imposes a costly burden upon patients, healthcare insurers, and society overall. Spinal manipulation as practiced by chiropractors has been found be cost-effective for treatment of LBP, but...

    Authors: James M. Whedon, Serena Bezdjian, Patricia Dennis, Vivi-Ann Fischer and Robb Russell
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:68
  6. Spinal manipulative therapy is an effective treatment for neck pain. However, the mechanisms underlying its clinical efficacy are not fully understood. Previous studies have not systematically compared force-t...

    Authors: Lindsay M. Gorrell, Philip J. Conway and Walter Herzog
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:67
  7. The chiropractic profession is split between those practicing evidence-based and those whose practice is honed by vitalism. The latter has been coined ‘chiropractic conservatism’. In Denmark, the chiropractic ...

    Authors: Casper Glissmann Nim, Henrik Hein Lauridsen, Søren O’Neill, Guillaume Goncalves, Rikke K. Jensen and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:64
  8. Professional associations (PAs) are perceived to promote their professions and support their members. Despite these advantages, about 1 in 3 Australian chiropractors choose not to belong to either of the two P...

    Authors: Stanley I. Innes, Vicki Cope and Kenneth J. Young
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:58
  9. Understanding the mechanisms underlying chronic, nonspecific low back pain (CNSLBP) is essential to advance personalized care and identify the most appropriate intervention. Recently, two intervertebral motion...

    Authors: Daphne To, Alexander Breen, Alan Breen, Silvano Mior and Samuel J. Howarth
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:62
  10. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of kinesiology taping (KT) on lumbar proprioception, pain, and functional disability in individuals with nonspecific chronic low back pain (CLBP).

    Authors: Soheila Abbasi, Mohammad-Reza Hadian Rasanani, Nastaran Ghotbi, Gholam Reza Olyaei, Ali Bozorgmehr and Omid Rasouli
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:63
  11. An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

    Authors: Karl Vincent, Olivier Gagey and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:66

    The original article was published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:59

  12. In March 2020, the World Health Organization elevated the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic to a pandemic and called for urgent and aggressive action worldwide. Public health experts have communicated cl...

    Authors: Iben Axén, Cecilia Bergström, Marc Bronson, Pierre Côté, Casper Glissmann Nim, Guillaume Goncalves, Jeffrey J. Hébert, Joakim Axel Hertel, Stanley Innes, Ole Kristoffer Larsen, Anne-Laure Meyer, Søren O’Neill, Stephen M. Perle, Kenneth A. Weber II, Kenneth J. Young and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:65
  13. Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) and mobilization (MOB) effects are believed to be related to their force characteristics. Most previous studies have either measured the force at the patient-table interface o...

    Authors: Jérémie Mikhail, Martha Funabashi, Martin Descarreaux and Isabelle Pagé
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:57
  14. The clinical follow-up of patients for degeneration of the supraspinatus tendon is limited by the lack of objective assessment of pain evolution over time. We therefore tested a new method to collect follow-up...

    Authors: Karl Vincent, Olivier Gagey and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:59

    The Correction to this article has been published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:66

  15. Chiropractors are a particular subset of health care professionals that reportedly suffer occupational musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), yet they have received minimal attention to date regarding mitigating ri...

    Authors: Samuel J. Howarth, Anser Abbas, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson and Silvano Mior
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:55
  16. Swiss chiropractors have been licensed since 1995 to prescribe from a limited formulary of medications for treating musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. In January 2018, this formulary was expanded to include add...

    Authors: Peter C. Emary, Mark Oremus, Taco A. W. Houweling, Martin Wangler and Noori Akhtar-Danesh
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:54
  17. The hip abductor muscle group stabilises the pelvis during gait to prevent excessive pelvic drop. Hip abductor weakness has been linked to musculoskeletal conditions such as chronic low-back pain. As such, it ...

    Authors: Luke McCarney, Alexander Andrews, Phoebe Henry, Azharuddin Fazalbhoy, Isaac Selva Raj, Noel Lythgo and Julie C Kendall
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:53
  18. Better understanding of the dynamics and temporal changes in manual therapy service utilisation may assist with healthcare planning and resource allocation. The objectives of this study were to quantify, descr...

    Authors: Reidar P. Lystad, Benjamin T. Brown, Michael S. Swain and Roger M. Engel
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:49
  19. Patient safety research has lagged within academic settings, including chiropractic teaching institutions. To develop a robust patient safety culture, the Institute of Medicine emphasized the need for employee...

    Authors: Katherine A. Pohlman, Stacie A. Salsbury, Martha Funabashi, Michelle M. Holmes and Silvano Mior
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:50
  20. Taping is a common treatment modality used by many rehabilitation providers. Several types of tapes and taping methods are used in the treatment of musculoskeletal dysfunction and pain.

    Authors: Zachary A. Cupler, Muhammad Alrwaily, Emily Polakowski, Kevin S. Mathers and Michael J. Schneider
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:52
  21. Approximately 50% of patients who receive spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) experience some kind of adverse event (AE), typically benign and transient in nature. Regardless of their severity, mitigating benign...

    Authors: Martha Funabashi, Katherine A. Pohlman, Rachel Goldsworthy, Alex Lee, Anthony Tibbles, Silvano Mior and Greg Kawchuk
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:46
  22. Spine related disorders entail biological (somatic), psychological, and social factors. Though biological factors are often emphasized, psychosocial considerations may not be receiving proper attention in the ...

    Authors: Jordan A. Gliedt, Patrick J. Battaglia and Benjamin D. Holmes
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:43
  23. The assessment of spinal stiffness by manual palpation in clinical settings has demonstrated both poor accuracy and reliability. More recently, mechanical methods for assessment of spinal stiffness have demons...

    Authors: Anika Young, Michael S. Swain, Gregory N. Kawchuk, Arnold Y. L. Wong and Aron S. Downie
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:42
  24. Cervicothoracic (CT) junction hypomobility has been proposed as a contributing factor for neck pain. However, there are limited studies that compared the effect of CT junction mobilization against an effective...

    Authors: Shriya Joshi, Ganesh Balthillaya and Y. V. Raghava Neelapala
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:38
  25. Knowledge about the occurrence and distribution of musculoskeletal problems in early life is needed. The objectives were to group children aged 8 to 16 according to their distribution of pain in the spine, low...

    Authors: Signe Fuglkjær, Werner Vach, Jan Hartvigsen, Kristina Boe Dissing, Tina Junge and Lise Hestbæk
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:45
  26. Chiropractors see themselves as well positioned to provide safe, effective and economical care for the on-going financial burden that spinal pain imposes. However, in many places of the world, the chiropractic...

    Authors: Stanley I. Innes, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde and Bruce F. Walker
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:40
  27. Authors: Pierre Côté, André Bussières, J. David Cassidy, Jan Hartvigsen, Greg N. Kawchuk, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde, Silvano Mior and Michael Schneider
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:48
  28. Chronic spinal pain conditions affect millions of US adults and carry a high healthcare cost burden, both direct and indirect. Conservative interventions for spinal pain conditions, including chiropractic care...

    Authors: Brian C. Coleman, Samah Fodeh, Anthony J. Lisi, Joseph L. Goulet, Kelsey L. Corcoran, Harini Bathulapalli and Cynthia A. Brandt
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:47
  29. Human anatomy education is compulsory in the undergraduate curriculum in all Australian chiropractic education programs. There is very little data on clinicians’ perceptions of the adequacy of their anatomy tr...

    Authors: Rosemary Giuriato, Goran Å trkalj, Tania Prvan and Nalini Pather
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:37
  30. When indicated by signs or symptoms of potentially serious underlying pathology (red flags), chiropractors can use radiographs to inform their diagnosis. In the absence of red flags, the clinical utility of ro...

    Authors: Melissa Corso, Carol Cancelliere, Silvano Mior, Varsha Kumar, Ali Smith and Pierre Côté
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:33
  31. The COVID-19 pandemic led to unprecedented changes, as many state and local governments enacted stay-at-home orders and non-essential businesses were closed. State chiropractic licensing boards play an importa...

    Authors: Shawn M. Neff, Christopher B. Roecker, Casey S. Okamoto, Samuel L. Holguin, Jason G. Napuli, Ross Mattox, Nathan A. Hinkeldey and David J. Paris
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:44
  32. There is some evidence and anecdotal reports that high-velocity low-amplitude (HVLA) spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) for non-specific low back pain (NSLBP) may immediately reduce pain in some patients. The m...

    Authors: Stanley Innes, Amber Beynon, Christopher Hodgetts, Rachel Manassah, Denyse Lim and Bruce F. Walker
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:39
  33. Little is known about the preferred treatment strategies of chiropractors in managing low back pain patients with prior lumbar fusions. There are several case reports which describe chiropractic care following...

    Authors: Clinton J. Daniels, Jordan A. Gliedt, Pradeep Suri, Edward M. Bednarz and Anthony J. Lisi
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:29
  34. People with chronic low back pain (LBP) typically have increased pain sensitivity compared to healthy controls, however its unknown if pain sensitivity differs based on LBP trajectory at baseline or after manu...

    Authors: Sasha L. Aspinall, Angela Jacques, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde, Sarah J. Etherington and Bruce F. Walker
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:36
  35. Chiropractic emerged in 1895 and was promoted as a viable health care substitute in direct competition with the medical profession. This was an era when there was a belief that one cause and one cure for all d...

    Authors: J. Keith Simpson and Kenneth J. Young
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:35
  36. To investigate for congenital muscular torticollis (CMT) and positional plagiocephaly (PP) the effectiveness and safety of manual therapy, repositioning and helmet therapy (PP only) using a systematic review o...

    Authors: Julie Ellwood, Jerry Draper-Rodi and Dawn Carnes
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:31
  37. Social media has become an increasingly important tool in monitoring the onset and spread of infectious diseases globally as well monitoring the spread of information about those diseases. This includes the sp...

    Authors: Greg Kawchuk, Jan Hartvigsen, Steen Harsted, Casper Glissmann Nim and Luana Nyirö
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:34
  38. According to the American Physical Therapy Association, there is strong evidence to show that vertebral mobilization and manipulation procedures can be used to improve spinal and hip mobility and reduce pain a...

    Authors: Jefferson Fagundes Loss, Luciano de Souza da Silva, Iã Ferreira Miranda, Sandro Groisman, Edgar Santiago Wagner Neto, Catiane Souza and Cláudia Tarragô Candotti
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:25
  39. Following head and neck trauma, the involvement of the cranio-cervical junction (CCJ) and its contribution to a patients transition to chronic pain, is poorly understood. The detection of hypermobility in this...

    Authors: Karthik V. Hariharan, Lauren Terhorst, Matthew D. Maxwell, Christopher G. Bise, Michael G. Timko and Michael J. Schneider
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:32
  40. The Council on Chiropractic Education Australasia (CCE-A) is tasked with assessment and accreditation of chiropractic programs (CPs) in the Australasian community. To achieve this process the CCE-A has develop...

    Authors: Stanley I. Innes and Amanda Kimpton
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:30
  41. Chiropractic technique systems (‘prescriptive’ techniques) might be interpreted as helpful guidelines. However, ‘prescriptive’ techniques, such as Functional Neurology (FN), Sacro-Occipital Technique, and Appl...

    Authors: Marine Demortier, Guillaume Goncalves, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde, Christine Le Scanff and Niels Wedderkopp
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:28
  42. Migraine is a highly disabling condition and pharmacological treatment is the gold standard. However, several patients have also positive responses to the application of different manual techniques and therape...

    Authors: Mariana Tedeschi Benatto, Lidiane Lima Florencio, Marcela Mendes Bragatto, Fabíola Dach, César Fernández-de-las-Peñas and Débora Bevilaqua-Grossi
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:22
  43. The 2019 coronavirus pandemic is a current global health crisis. Many chiropractic institutions, associations, and researchers have stepped up at a time of need. However, a subset of the chiropractic professio...

    Authors: Joshua Plener, Ben Csiernik, Geronimo Bejarano, Jesper Hjertstrand and Benjamin Goodall
    Citation: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2020 28:26