Factors influencing Australian chiropractors who choose not to join national professional associations: a qualitative study
ConclusionsNon-members are looking for PAs to enhance the respectability of the profession in a manner that ultimately results in increased patient volume and the provision of readily accessible day-to-day resources and information. These results can inform the construction of a survey for the broader chiropractic non-membership community to confirm and expand upon these findings and potentially improve PAs. (Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies)
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - December 1, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Investigator analytic repeatability of two new intervertebral motion biomarkers for chronic, nonspecific low back pain in a cohort of healthy controls
ConclusionsMSI demonstrated substantial intra- and inter-investigator repeatability, suggesting that investigator input has a minimal influence on its measurement. MSV demonstrated moderate intra-investigator reliability and fair inter-investigator repeatability. Confirmation in patients with CNSLBP is now required. (Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies)
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - November 24, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Short-term effect of kinesiology taping on pain, functional disability and lumbar proprioception in individuals with nonspecific chronic low back pain: a double-blinded, randomized trial
ConclusionKT can decrease pain and disability scores after 3 days of application. Although placebo taping can reduce pain, the effect of KT is higher than placebo taping. The findings do not support the therapeutic effect of KT and placebo taping as a tool to enhance lumbar proprioception in patients with nonspecific CLBP.Trial registrationThe study prospectively registered on 21.05.2018 at the Iranian Registry of Clinical Trials:IRCT20090301001722N20. (Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies)
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - November 20, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Correction to: Feasibility study: one year fortnightly follow-up of the evolution of supra-spinatus degeneration via text-messages
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article. (Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies)
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - November 19, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Misinformation, chiropractic, and the COVID-19 pandemic
ConclusionsMembers of the chiropractic profession share a collective responsibility to act in the best interests of patients and public health. We hope that all chiropractic stakeholders will view the COVID-19 pandemic as a call to action to eliminate the unethical and potentially dangerous claims made by chiropractors who practise outside the boundaries of scientific evidence. (Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies)
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - November 18, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Approaches to cervical spine mobilization for neck pain: a pilot randomized controlled trial
ConclusionsOur results provide supporting evidence for the feasibility of a future larger scale randomized clinical trial.Trial registrationTrial registration: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ACTRN12616000446460). Registered 6th April 2016.https://www.anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=370448&isReview=true (Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies)
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - November 18, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
An unusual postural headache: a case report
ConclusionsThe significance of key features in the history and examination and how if not recognised and subsequently treated with manual therapy, the dural tear could be attributed to the treatment of the chiropractor, a treatment that would typically involve cervical manipulation. Discussion is provided of the implications of a missed diagnosis and possible subsequent chiropractic management with the evolving SIH being attributed to the chiropractic intervention rather than its true “spontaneous” nature. (Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies)
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - November 13, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Assessing forces during spinal manipulation and mobilization: factors influencing the difference between forces at the patient-table and clinician-patient interfaces
ConclusionsThe results revealed that the force measured at the patient-table interface is greater than the applied force at the clinician-patient interface during thoracic SMT and MOB. By which mechanism the force is amplified is not yet fully understood. (Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies)
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - November 10, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Informed consent, duty of disclosure and chiropractic: where are we?
ConclusionUltimately such matters are informed by the deliberations of the courts. It is our opinion that the duty of a mature profession to critically self-evaluate and respond in the best interests of the patient before these matters arrive in court. (Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies)
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - November 4, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Feasibility study: one year fortnightly follow-up of the evolution of supra-spinatus degeneration via text-messages
ConclusionThe most important difficulty of this study was the enrolment and compliance of clinicians. The collection of SMS data was less successful than in previous studies, but French people accepted well this new method which is much easier and specific than collecting data through clinical records. The quality of the SMS data was acceptable. However, because of the limited number of complete datasets, only a limited number of questions from the original study protocol can be answered. (Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies)
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - November 4, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Reported 1-year prevalence of occupational musculoskeletal disorders in Ontario chiropractors
ConclusionsOne-year prevalence of occupational MSDs from this study are comparable to previously reported estimates in chiropractors. These data suggest that chiropractors continue with their regular workload despite their MSDs, thereby increasing their chances of presenteeism. Chiropractors changing technique or technique parameters due to their MSDs provides direction for future research to reduce exposure to occupational MSD risk factors. (Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies)
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - October 23, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Attitudes, beliefs, and practices among Swiss chiropractors regarding medication prescribing for musculoskeletal conditions: a national Q-methodology study
ConclusionThis was the first national survey on attitudes toward prescribing medications among Swiss chiropractors since the year 2000, and the first using Q-methodology. With this approach, four unique groups of chiropractic prescribers were identified. Even with diversity among clinicians, the findings of this study showed general support for, along with conservative use of, prescribing privileges within the Swiss chiropractic profession. Studies in jurisdictions outside of Switzerland are needed to assess whether chiropractors are interested in expanding their scopes of practice to include similar prescribing privileges...
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - October 20, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Determining Trendelenburg test validity and reliability using 3-dimensional motion analysis and muscle dynamometry
ConclusionsThis study found no significant relationship between normalised peak isometric and isokinetic hip abductor torque and frontal plane pelvic motion during the Trendelenburg test in a healthy young adult population. There was also poor agreement between the practitioner and pelvic motion assessments. Caution should be used when using this test, in the absence of intra-articular hip pathology, to assesses hip abductor weakness. Before any definitive conclusion can be made, studies with a larger sample size should be performed. (Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies)
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - October 19, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Controlled manual loading of body tissues: towards the next generation of pressure algometer
AbstractAssessing the responses of body tissue subjected to mechanical load is a fundamental component of the clinical examination, psychophysical assessments and bioengineering research. The forces applied during such assessments are usually generated manually, via the hands of the tester, and aimed at discreet tissue sites. It is therefore desirable to objectively quantify and optimise the control of manually applied force. However, current laboratory-grade manual devices and commercial software packages, in particular pressure algometer systems, are generally inflexible and expensive. This paper introduces and discusses...
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - October 4, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Service utilisation trends in the manual therapy professions within the Australian private healthcare setting between 2008 and 2017
ConclusionService provision under private health insurance general treatment cover constitute a major source of revenue for manual therapy professions in Australia. Although manual therapy service utilisation increased throughout the ten-year period from 2008 to 2017, the annual growth declined. There were diverging trends across the three professions, including significantly greater decline in annual growth for chiropractic than for osteopathy and physiotherapy. (Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies)
Source: Chiropractic and Manual Therapies - September 20, 2020 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
