There is increasing interest by chiropractors in North America regarding integration into mainstream healthcare; however, there is limited information about attitudes towards the profession among conventional ...
Authors: Jason W Busse, Janey Jim, Craig Jacobs, Trung Ngo, Robert Rodine, David Torrance, Abhaya V Kulkarni, Brad Petrisor, Brian Drew and Mohit Bhandari
The journal has been informed by its publisher BioMed Central that contrary to the statement in this article [Wayne Hoskins, Henry Pollard, Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010, 18:23], they have been advised by the au...
Fibromyalgia is a chronic syndrome with no cure. A thorough understanding of the illness experience is therefore key in the palliative care of patients with this condition. In search for supportive treatments ...
Manual therapy is an intervention commonly advocated in the management of dizziness of a suspected cervical origin. Vestibular rehabilitation exercises have been shown to be effective in the treatment of unila...
Authors: Reidar P Lystad, Gregory Bell, Martin Bonnevie-Svendsen and Catherine V Carter
People with physical disabilities experience barriers to healthcare across all services despite a legal and moral obligation to the contrary. Complementary medicine is considered as supplementary to convention...
Neck pain (NP) is a common cause of disability. Accurate and efficacious methods of diagnosis and treatment have been elusive. A diagnosis-based clinical decision guide (DBCDG; previously referred to as a diag...
Altered movement pattern has been associated with the development of low back pain (LBP). The purpose of this study was to investigate the activity pattern of the ipsilateral erector spinae (IES) and contralat...
Authors: Amir M Arab, Leila Ghamkhar, Mahnaz Emami and Mohammad R Nourbakhsh
It is widely recognized that the dramatic increase in health care costs in the United States has not led to a corresponding improvement in the health care experience of patients or the clinical outcomes of med...
Authors: Donald R Murphy, Brian D Justice, Ian C Paskowski, Stephen M Perle and Michael J Schneider
Although reproducibility in reading MRI images amongst radiologists and clinicians has been studied previously, no studies have examined the reproducibility of inexperienced clinicians in extracting pathoanato...
Authors: Peter Kent, Andrew M Briggs, Hanne B Albert, Andreas Byrhagen, Christian Hansen, Karina Kjaergaard and Tue S Jensen
Organizational improvement of neonatal intensive care units requires strict monitoring of preterm infants, including routine assessment of physiological functions of the gastrointestinal system and optimized p...
The subluxation construct has been a divisive term in the chiropractic profession. There is a paucity of evidence to document the subluxation. Some authors have questioned the propriety of continuing to use th...
Synovial sarcoma is a rare malignant neoplasm of soft tissue that typically arising near large joints of the upper and lower extremities in young adult males. Only 3% of these neoplasms have been found to aris...
Chiropractic in Australia has seen many changes over the past 30 years. Some of these changes have advanced the professional status of chiropractic, improved undergraduate training and paved the way for a rese...
The STarT back screening tool (SBT) allocates low back pain (LBP) patients into three risk groups and is intended to assist clinicians in their decisions about choice of treatment. The tool consists of domains...
Authors: Alice Kongsted, Else Johannesen and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
In 2009, the heads of the Executive Council of the European Chiropractors' Union (ECU) and the European Academy of Chiropractic (EAC) involved in the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) process for th...
Authors: Martin Wangler, Ricardo Fujikawa, Lise Hestbæk, Tom Michielsen, Timothy J Raven, Haymo W Thiel and Beatrice Zaugg
Back-related leg pain (BRLP) is a common variation of low back pain (LBP), with lifetime prevalence estimates as high as 40%. Often disabling, BRLP accounts for greater work loss, recurrences, and higher costs...
Authors: Craig A Schulz, Maria A Hondras, Roni L Evans, Maruti R Gudavalli, Cynthia R Long, Edward F Owens, David G Wilder and Gert Bronfort
The objective was to assess the use of the Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile (MYMOP2) and W-BQ12 well-being questionnaire for measuring clinical change associated with a course of chiropractic treatment.
Authors: Barbara I Polus, Amanda J Kimpton and Max J Walsh
Positive attitude toward evidence-based practice (EBP) principles in healthcare education may be one of the first steps for motivating a healthcare professional student to later apply EBP principles in clinica...
Authors: Ryunosuke Banzai, Dustin C Derby, Cynthia R Long and Maria A Hondras
An instrument known as the Mechanical and Inflammatory Low Back Pain (MAIL) Scale was drafted using the results of a previous expert opinion study. A pilot survey was conducted to test the feasibility of a lar...
Authors: Janine S Riksman, Owen D Williamson and Bruce F Walker
The Internet has become a common source of information for patients wishing to learn about health information. Previous studies found information related to back pain poor and often contradictory to current gu...
Authors: Marion Willard Evans Jr, Stephen M Perle and Harrison Ndetan
To characterize the types of control procedures used in controlled clinical trials of cervical spine manipulation and to evaluate the outcomes obtained by subjects in control groups so as to improve the qualit...
Authors: Howard Vernon, Aaron Puhl and Christine Reinhart
Mechanical low back pain is a common indication for Nuclear Medicine imaging. Whole-body bone scan is a very sensitive but poorly specific study for the detection of metabolic bone abnormalities. The accurate ...
Authors: Michael H Carstensen, Mashael Al-Harbi, Jean-Luc Urbain and Tarik-Zine Belhocine
Chiropractic & Osteopathy changes its title to Chiropractic & Manual Therapies in January 2011. This change reflects the expanding base of submissions from clinical scientists interested in the discipline of manu...
Authors: Bruce F Walker, Simon D French, Melainie Cameron, Stephen M Perle, Charlotte Lebouef-Yde and Sidney M Rubinstein
Longitudinal patterns of chiropractic use in the United States, particularly among Medicare beneficiaries, are not well documented. Using a nationally representative sample of older Medicare beneficiaries we d...
Authors: Paula Weigel, Jason M Hockenberry, Suzanne E Bentler, Maksym Obrizan, Brian Kaskie, Michael P Jones, Robert L Ohsfeldt, Gary E Rosenthal, Robert B Wallace and Fredric D Wolinsky
Considering the increasing use of alternative therapies for children, it is appropriate to determine the demographic profile of pediatric patients entering a chiropractic clinic.
Ice hockey is an international sport. Injuries occur in a full body fashion, to a number of tissues, commonly through body contact. There is a lack of literature documenting the scope of sports chiropractic pr...
Authors: Chris Julian, Wayne Hoskins and Andrew L Vitiello
The World Health Organization has recently added Interprofessional Education (IPE) to its global health agenda recognizing it as a necessary component of all health professionals' education. We suggest mandato...
Authors: John J Riva, Jessica MS Lam, Elizabeth C Stanford, Ainsley E Moore, Andrea R Endicott and Iris E Krawchenko
The "Put Prevention into Practice" campaign of the US Public Health Service (USPHS) was launched with the dissemination of the Clinician's Handbook of Preventive Services that recommended standards of clinical ca...
Research into attitudes about chiropractors who are no longer engaged in active clinical practice is non-existent. Yet non-practicing chiropractors (NPCs) represent a valid sub-group worthy of study.
Authors: Timothy A Mirtz, Jeffrey J Hebert and Lawrence H Wyatt
One of the debates regarding the role of chiropractors is whether or not they should be considered as primary healthcare practitioners. Primary care is often used to describe chiropractic but without any defin...
The risk associated with cervical manipulation is controversial. Research in this area is widely variable but as yet the risk is not easily quantifiable. This presents a problem when informing the patient of r...
Our recent investigations have demonstrated that cell cultures from subjects, who received a single spinal manipulative treatment in the upper thoracic spine, show increased capacity for the production of the ...
Authors: Julita A Teodorczyk-Injeyan, Marion McGregor, Richard Ruegg and H Stephen Injeyan
The authors hypothesized the attrition rate of licensed chiropractors in California has gradually increased over the past several decades. "Attrition" as determined for this study is defined as a loss of legal...
There is little literature describing the use of manual therapy performed on athletes. It was our purpose to document the usage of a sports chiropractic manual therapy intervention within a RCT by identifying ...
The understanding of the relationship between cervical manipulative therapy (CMT) and vertebral artery dissection and stroke (VADS) has evolved considerably over the years. In the beginning the relationship wa...
In the last decade the sub grouping of low back pain (LBP) patients according to their likely response to treatment has been identified as a research priority. As with other patient groups, researchers have fo...
Authors: Jonathan R Field, Dave Newell and Peter W McCarthy
Neck pain of a mechanical nature is a common complaint seen by practitioners of manual medicine, who use a multitude of methods to treat the condition. It is not known, however, if any of these methods are sup...
The routine use of radiology is normally discouraged in patients with low back pain (LBP). Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) provides clinicians and patients with detailed knowledge of spinal structures and has...
Authors: Rikke K Jensen, Manniche Claus and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
There is a paucity of epidemiological data on neck injury in amateur rugby union populations. The objective of this study was to determine the incidence, severity, aetiology and type of neck injury in Australi...
Authors: Michael S Swain, Henry P Pollard and Rod Bonello
This editorial provides an overview of this Thematic Series of the journal titled Chiropractic Care for Children. In commissioning this series of articles we aimed to bring the busy clinician up to date with t...
Authors: Simon D French, Bruce F Walker and Stephen M Perle
Chiropractic (Greek: done by hand) is a health care profession concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disorders of the neuromusculoskeletal system and the effects of these disorders on gener...
Authors: Sharon A Vallone, Joyce Miller, Annica Larsdotter and Jennifer Barham-Floreani
Five to ten percent of chiropractic patients are children and adolescents. Most of these consult because of spinal pain, or other musculoskeletal complaints. These musculoskeletal disorders in early life not o...
Authors: Lise Hestbaek and Mette Jensen Stochkendahl
A great deal has been published in the chiropractic literature regarding the response, or lack thereof, of various common pediatric conditions to chiropractic care. The majority of that literature is of low sc...
Psychostimulants are first line of therapy for paediatric and adolescent AD/HD. The evidence suggests that up to 30% of those prescribed stimulant medications do not show clinically significant outcomes. In ad...
Authors: Fay Karpouzis, Rod Bonello and Henry Pollard
Pediatric manual therapy is controversial within the medical community particularly with respect to adverse events. Pediatric manual therapy (Ped MT) is commonly used by a number of professions such as chiropr...
Many health science research and review articles end with the words: "More research is needed". However, when it comes to research, it is not as much a question of quantity as of quality. There are a number of...
The aims of the current study were: a) to quantitatively compare data obtained by Short Message Service (SMS) with data from a telephone interview, b) to investigate whether the respondents had found it accept...
