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A new role for spinal manual therapy and for chiropractic? Part II: strengths and opportunities
(Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2024-03-27)
In a previous paper, we presented some important weaknesses of and threats to the chiropractic profession as we see them. We further argued that the chiropractic profession's relationship with its principal clinical tool ...
A new role for spinal manual therapy and for chiropractic? Part I: weaknesses and threats
(Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2024-03-26)
Spinal manual therapy is central to chiropractic history, clinical practice, and professional identity. That chiropractors have developed an expertise in this domain has provided some considerable advantages. However, we ...
A descriptive analysis of the contents of Care Response, an international data set of patient-reported outcomes for chiropractic patients
(Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2023-09-19)
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 ...
Musculoskeletal practitioners’ perceptions of contextual factors that may influence chronic low back pain outcomes: a modified Delphi study
(Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2023-04-05)
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Clinical outcomes in a large cohort of musculoskeletal patients undergoing chiropractic care in the United Kingdom: A comparison of self- and National Health Service–referred routes
(Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, 2016)
Objective
An innovative commissioning pathway has recently been introduced in the United Kingdom allowing chiropractic organizations to provide state-funded chiropractic care to patients through referral from National ...