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  1. 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
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:26
  2. Maintenance care (MC) is relatively commonly used among chiropractors. However, factual information is needed on its indications for use.

    Authors: Signe F Hansen, Anne L S Laursen, Tue S Jensen, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde and Lise Hestbæk
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:25
  3. 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...

    Authors: Stephen M Foreman and Michael J Stahl
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:24
  4. 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 ...

    Authors: Wayne Hoskins and Henry Pollard
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:23

    The Retraction Note to this article has been published in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2011 19:24

  5. 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
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:21
  6. 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...

    Authors: Hugh Gemmell and Peter Miller
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:20
  7. 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
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:19
  8. 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
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:18
  9. 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
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:16
  10. 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
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:15
  11. 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...

    Authors: Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde and Lise Hestbæk
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:11
  12. The number needed to treat (NNT) for one participant to benefit is considered a useful, clinically meaningful way of reporting binary outcomes from randomized trials. Analysis of continuous data from our rando...

    Authors: Mitchell Haas, Michael Schneider and Darcy Vavrek
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:9
  13. It is widely believed that non-specific low back pain (LBP) consists of a number of subgroups which should be identified in order to improve treatment effects. In order to identify subgroups, patient character...

    Authors: Alice Kongsted and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:8
  14. When conservative therapies for low back pain (LBP) are not effective, elective surgery may be proposed to these patients. Over the last 20 years, a new technology, disc replacement, has become increasingly po...

    Authors: Julie O'Shaughnessy, Marc Drolet, Jean-François Roy and Martin Descarreaux
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:7
  15. Chronic pain and psychosocial distress are generally thought to be associated in chronic musculoskeletal disorders such as non-specific neck pain. However, it is unclear whether a raised level of anxiety is ne...

    Authors: Corrie Myburgh, Kirsten K Roessler, Anders H Larsen and Jan Hartvigsen
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:6
  16. The management of chiropractic patients with acute and chronic/persistent conditions probably differs. However, little is known on this subject. There is, for example, a dearth of information on maintenance ca...

    Authors: Kjerstin F Sandnes, Charlotte Bjørnstad, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde and Lise Hestbaek
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:5
  17. The purpose of this report is to provide a succinct but comprehensive summary of the scientific evidence regarding the effectiveness of manual treatment for the management of a variety of musculoskeletal and n...

    Authors: Gert Bronfort, Mitch Haas, Roni Evans, Brent Leininger and Jay Triano
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:3
  18. Low back pain (LBP) is known to have a fluctuating course. In clinical studies, when deciding on duration of treatment and time for follow-up, it is important to know at what point in time a definite pattern o...

    Authors: Alice Kongsted and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:2
  19. Shortening of the iliotibial band (ITB) has been considered to be associated with low back pain (LBP). It is theorized that ITB tightness in individuals with LBP is a compensatory mechanism following hip abduc...

    Authors: Amir M Arab and Mohammad R Nourbakhsh
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010 18:1
  20. It is clinically important to be able to select patients suitable for treatment and to be able to predict with some certainty the outcome for patients treated for low back pain (LBP). It is not known to what d...

    Authors: Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde, Annika Rosenbaum, Iben Axén, Peter W Lövgren, Kristian Jørgensen, Laszlo Halasz, Andreas Eklund and Niels Wedderkopp
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2009 17:14
  21. In New South Wales, Australia, an injured worker enters the workers compensation system with the case often managed by a pre-determined insurer. The goal of the treating practitioner is to facilitate the claim...

    Authors: Henry Pollard and Katie de Luca
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2009 17:12
  22. Non-specific low back pain (LBP) is known to be a fluctuating condition and there is a growing realisation that it consists of different subgroups of patients. The detailed course of pain is not known since tr...

    Authors: Alice Kongsted and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2009 17:11
  23. After any therapy, when symptoms improve, healthcare providers (and patients) are tempted to award credit to treatment. Over time, a particular treatment can seem so undeniably helpful that scientific verifica...

    Authors: Steve E Hartman
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2009 17:10
  24. It is commonly stated that nerve root pain should be expected to follow a specific dermatome and that this information is useful to make the diagnosis of radiculopathy. There is little evidence in the literatu...

    Authors: Donald R Murphy, Eric L Hurwitz, Jonathan K Gerrard and Ronald Clary
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2009 17:9
  25. Maintenance care is a well known concept among chiropractors, although there is little knowledge about its exact definition, its indications and usefulness. As an initial step in a research program on this phe...

    Authors: Stefan Malmqvist and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2009 17:7
  26. Although cervical pain is widespread, most victims are only mildly and occasionally affected. A minority, however, suffer chronic pain and/or functional impairments. Although there is abundant literature regar...

    Authors: Per J Palmgren, Daniel Andreasson, Magnus Eriksson and Andreas Hägglund
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2009 17:6
  27. Although maintenance care appears to be relatively commonly used among chiropractors, the indications for its use are incompletely understood. A questionnaire survey was recently carried out among Swedish chir...

    Authors: Lars Top Møller, Michael Hansen and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2009 17:5
  28. The term 'acute facet syndrome' is widely used and accepted amongst chiropractors, but poorly described in the literature, as most of the present literature relates to chronic facet joint pain. Therefore, rese...

    Authors: Lise Hestbaek, Alice Kongsted, Tue Secher Jensen and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2009 17:2
  29. Among chiropractors the use of long-term treatment is common, often referred to as "maintenance care". Although no generally accepted definition exists, the term has a self-explanatory meaning to chiropractic ...

    Authors: Iben Axén, Irene B Jensen, Andreas Eklund, Laszlo Halasz, Kristian Jørgensen, Fredrik Lange, Peter W Lövgren, Annika Rosenbaum and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2009 17:1
  30. The manual muscle test (MMT) has been offered as a chiropractic assessment tool that may help diagnose neuromusculoskeletal dysfunction. We contend that due to the number of manipulative practitioners using th...

    Authors: Walter H Schmitt Jr and Scott C Cuthbert
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2008 16:16
  31. Neck problems are often recurring or chronic. After pain, unsteadiness and balance problems are among the most frequent symptoms reported by chronic neck pain (CNP) patients. Altered sensorimotor control of th...

    Authors: Danik Lafond, Annick Champagne, Rosalie Cadieux and Martin Descarreaux
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2008 16:15
  32. In a previous Swedish study it was shown that it is possible to predict which chiropractic patients with persistent LBP will not report definite improvement early in the course of treatment, namely those with LBP...

    Authors: Stefan Malmqvist, Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde, Tuomo Ahola, Olli Andersson, Kristian Ekström, Harri Pekkarinen, Markku Turpeinen and Niels Wedderkopp
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2008 16:13
  33. The one year prevalence of thoracic back pain has been estimated as 17% compared to 64% for neck pain and 67% for low back pain. At present only one randomised controlled trial has been performed assessing the...

    Authors: Amy Crothers, Bruce Walker and Simon D French
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2008 16:12
  34. The chiropractic profession has succeeded to remain in existence for over 110 years despite the fact that many other professions which had their start at around the same time as chiropractic have disappeared. ...

    Authors: Donald R Murphy, Michael J Schneider, David R Seaman, Stephen M Perle and Craig F Nelson
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2008 16:10
  35. The Finnish chiropractic profession is young and not fully accepted by Finnish healthcare authorities. The demographic profile and style of practice has not been described to date. However, as the profession s...

    Authors: Stefan Malmqvist and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2008 16:9
  36. The objective of this case report is to describe the clinical presentation of a patient who complained of shoulder pain and was diagnosed with carcinoma of the scapula and spine that metastasized from the lung.

    Authors: James Demetrious and Gregory J Demetrious
    Citation: Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2008 16:8