Month: July 2013

  • Children and Chiropractic Safety 2

    THE SAFETY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF PEDIATRIC CHIROPRACTIC: A SURVEY OF CHIROPRACTORS AND PARENTS IN A PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH NETWORK Joel Alcantara, BSc, DC,1,2# Jeanne Ohm, DC,1,3 and Derek Kunz, BS1 Background: With continued popularity of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies for children, their safety and effectiveness are of high concern for both CAM and conventional…

  • Safety of Chiropractic for Children

    THE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE Volume 16, Number 6, 2010, pp. 621–626 a Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. DOI: 10.1089/acm.2009.0369 Abstract The Chiropractic Care of Children Joel Alcantara, D.C., Jeanne Ohm, D.C., and Derek Kunz, B.S. Objective: The objective of this study was to characterize the practice of pediatric chiropractic. Design: The study design…

  • Research summary of CHIROPRACTIC CARE for injured workers

      Compiled by Joseph J. Ierano. BSc DC     The following is a collection of the growing body of evidence that will form the basis of chiropractic scientific principles. Chiropractic was discovered in 1895 and has grown into one of the largest non-medical professions in the western world.         What is…

  • Evidence: mechanical pain, etc.

    Studies specific to mechanical pain, a changing symptomatic picture or further investigation of orthopaedic findings on initial examination.   Background: There is a legal and clinical responsibility for the chiropractor to provide the patient with an accurate differential diagnosis for the underlying mechanisms of pain and before a sound clinical rationale for evidence-influenced physical management.…

  • Pain and Psychology

    Is this a landmark study?   How many newspapers will ignore this one?   There was evidence that spinal manipulation improved psychological outcomes compared with verbal interventions.   Complementary Therapies in Medicine Volume 15, Issue 4, December 2007, Pages 271-283 doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2007.01.008 Copyright © 2007 Elsevier Ltd All rights reserved.   Psychological response in spinal manipulation…