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Chiropractic students’ cognitive dissonance to statements about professional identity, role, setting and future: international perspectives from a secondary analysis of pooled data

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2021
Background Chiropractic students demonstrate philosophically opposing views about the chiropractic profession. The primary aim was to describe chiropractic students’ responses to statements about chiropractic identity, role, setting, and future direction.
Michael S. Swain, Jordan A. Gliedt, Katie de Luca, Dave Newell, Michelle Holmes   +4 more
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What is chiropractic? [PDF]

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2017
While in some jurisdictions chiropractic is fully integrated in public and insurance funded health care systems, in others it is outside and considered as complementary or alternative health care.
Jan Hartvigsen, Simon French
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Chiropractic students' characteristics influencing confidence and competence in modulating spinal manipulation force-time characteristics of specific target forces: a secondary analysis of a cross-sectional study. [PDF]

Chiropr Man Therap
Background Although distinct, confidence and competence play a valuable role in healthcare education. For chiropractic students, both may be important in mastering motor skills required to perform spinal manipulative therapy (SMT).
Nim C, Smith N, Starmer D, Wang S, Choi G, Alayed A, AlShareef J, Gnjatic A, Sloan K, Wong K, Funabashi M.   +10 more
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Attitudes towards chiropractic: a survey of Canadian sport and exercise medicine physicians. [PDF]

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Background Previous surveys of physicians revealed diverse attitudes towards chiropractic. One of several strategies proposed by leaders in chiropractic to support the advancement of the profession in North America is to increase opportunities for ...
Borody C, D'Arcy J, Waters J, Leung M, Busse J.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Investigating force-time characteristics of prone thoracic SMT and self-reported patient outcome measures: a feasibility study

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2023
Background Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) is commonly used to treat musculoskeletal conditions, including thoracic spine pain. Applying patient-specific force-time characteristics are believed to be important to improve SMT’s effectiveness ...
Grand Choi, Dominic Giuliano, Anthony Tibbles, Samuel J. Howarth, Steve Tran, Joyce Lee, Martha Funabashi   +6 more
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Evaluating rates of chiropractic use and utilization by patient sex within the United States Veterans Health Administration: a serial cross-sectional analysis

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2023
Background Within the United States Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the number of patients using healthcare services has increased over the past several decades.
Sarah E. Graham, Brian C. Coleman, Xiwen Zhao, Anthony J. Lisi   +3 more
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Thoracolumbar fascia mobility and chronic low back pain: Phase 2 of a pilot and feasibility study including multimodal chiropractic care

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2022
Background Thoracolumbar fascia mobility observed with ultrasound imaging and calculated as shear strain is lower in persons with chronic low back pain. This pilot and feasibility trial assessed thoracolumbar shear strain in persons with chronic low back
Robert Vining, Stephen M. Onifer, Elissa Twist, Anna-Marie Ziegler, Lance Corber, Cynthia R. Long   +5 more
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Discomfort, pain and stiffness: what do these terms mean to patients? A cross-sectional survey with lexical and qualitative analyses

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2022
Background While pain is often the focus of clinical interventions, other clinical outcomes (e.g., discomfort, stiffness) might also contribute to patients’ functionality and well-being.
Martha Funabashi, Simon Wang, Alexander D Lee, Felipe C. K. Duarte, Brian Budgell, Peter Stilwell, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson   +6 more
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The Potential Mechanisms of High-Velocity, Low-Amplitude, Controlled Vertebral Thrusts on Neuroimmune Function: A Narrative Review

Medicina, 2021
The current COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated the need to find healthcare solutions that boost or support immunity. There is some evidence that high-velocity, low-amplitude (HVLA) controlled vertebral thrusts have the potential to modulate immune ...
Heidi Haavik, Imran Khan Niazi, Nitika Kumari, Imran Amjad, Jenna Duehr, Kelly Holt   +5 more
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Effects of weekly pain monitoring on back pain outcomes: a non-randomised controlled study

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 2021
Background Disease monitoring is an important element of self-management of several chronic diseases. Pain monitoring has become very easily available, but the role in musculoskeletal pain conditions is not clear.
Alice Kongsted, Tue Secher Jensen, Klaus Doktor, Lise Hestbæk   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source