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The development of working alliance in early stages of care from the perspective of patients attending a chiropractic teaching clinic
(Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2024-03-21)
Background: The clinician-patient relationship has consistently been found to predict treatment success in both physical and mental health settings. This relationship has been operationalised in the literature as "Working ...
Musculoskeletal practitioners’ perceptions of contextual factors that may influence chronic low back pain outcomes: a modified Delphi study
(Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2023)
Background: Optimal shaping of contextual factors (CFs) during clinical encounters may be associated with analgesic responses in treatments for musculoskeletal pain. These CFs (i.e., the patient-practitioner relationship, ...
A descriptive analysis of the contents of Care Response, an international data set of patient-reported outcomes for chiropractic patients
(Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2023)
Background: Databases have become an important tool in understanding trends and correlations in health care by collecting demographic and clinical information. Analysis of data collected from large cohorts of patients can ...
An international consensus definition for contextual factors: findings from a nominal group technique
(Frontiers in Psychology, 2023)
Objective: Emerging literature suggests contextual factors are important components of therapeutic encounters and may substantially influence clinical outcomes of a treatment intervention. At present, a single consensus ...
Impact of audible pops associated with spinal manipulation on perceived pain: a systematic review
(Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2022)
Objectives
An audible pop is the sound that can derive from an adjustment in spinal manipulative therapy and is often seen as an indicator of a successful treatment. A review conducted in 1998 concluded that there was ...
Patient's perception of exercise for management of chronic low back pain: A qualitative study exercise for the management of low back pain
(Musculoskeletal Care, 2022)
Objective: Pathoanatomical beliefs about the cause of low back pain may negatively influence patients' perceptions of ‘best care’, such as the inclusion of exercise for low back pain (LBP) management. The aims of this study ...
Impact of contextual factors on patient outcomes following conservative low back pain treatment: systematic review
(Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2022)
Background and objective
Chronic low back pain is pervasive, societally impactful, and current treatments only provide moderate relief. Exploring whether therapeutic elements, either unrecognised or perceived as implicit ...
Avoiding nocebo and other undesirable effects in chiropractic, osteopathy and physiotherapy: an invitation to reflect
(Musculoskeletal Science and Practice, 2022)
Introduction
While the placebo effect is increasingly recognised as a contributor to treatment effects in clinical practice, the nocebo and other undesirable effects are less well explored and likely underestimated. In ...
Presence of Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha in urine samples of patients with chronic low back pain undergoing chiropractic care: preliminary findings from a prospective cohort study
(Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2022)
Background and aims: Low back pain is the leading cause of years lived with disability worldwide. Chiropractors employ different interventions to treat low back pain, including spinal manipulative therapy, although the ...