Texas Chiropractic Association Written by Editor Wednesday, October 08, 2014 08:34 AM While chiropractic care is often associated with the treatment of musculoskeletal conditions, there are other, non-musculoskeletal conditions which may benefit from spinal manipulation (SM). This paper reports on the return of hearing in a woman treated with chiropractic adjustments after 8 months of […]
Updated October 18, 2014 8:16 PM By BOB GLAUBER Jim McMahon had nearly given up hope, resigned to a lifetime of pain and frightening memory loss. He even considered giving up completely and taking his own life. Before meeting Dr. Raymond Damadian of Woodbury, the pain in the 55-year-old former quarterback’s head was so excruciating, […]
Michele Maiers Manual Therapy Published Online: October 13, 2014 Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) and exercise have demonstrated effectiveness for neck pain (NP). Adverse events (AE) reporting in trials, particularly among elderly participants, is inconsistent and challenges informed clinical decision making. This paper provides a detailed report of AE experienced by elderly participants in a randomized […]
Thursday, October 09, 2014 05:25 PM Story Source: Texas Chiropractic Association / American Chiropractic Association The American Chiropractic Association has released some Key Facts about the Chiropractic Profession. The choice is simple, did you know: There are 77,000 Doctors of Chiropractic (DCs) in the United States who are required to pass a series of four national […]
J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2014 Oct 2. pii: S0161-4754(14)00171-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2014.09.001. [Epub ahead of print] Immediate Changes After Manual Therapy in Resting-State Functional Connectivity as Measured by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Participants With Induced Low Back Pain. Gay CW1, Robinson ME, George SZ3, Perlstein WM4, Bishop MD5. Abstract OBJECTIVE: The purposes of this study […]
Todd AJ J Manipulative Physiol Ther. 2014 Oct 30. pii: S0161-4754(14)00178-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jmpt.2014.09.008. [Epub ahead of print] Abstract OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to review the literature for cases of adverse events in infants and children treated by chiropractors or other manual therapists, identifying treatment type and if a preexisting pathology was present. […]
Manipulating the Pain: Chiropractic and Other “Alternative” Treatments for Back Pain Sep 29, 2014 Lecturer: Richard A. Deyo, M.D., M.P.H. Credits: 1 Cost: Free Learning Objectives Describe at least three methodological challenges in studying complementary, alternative, or integrative treatments for low back pain. Describe the overall results of randomized trials of chiropractic manipulation, acupuncture, and massage for low back pain. […]
A new online group has been created for all CAs and DCs to help one another with every aspect of running a professional and busy chiropractic office. Best of all, the “Chiropractic Assistant’s” forum is a FREE resource. No sales pitches, no spam, no infighting or flame wars, makes the “Chiropractic Assistant’s” forum better than […]
Roxanne Caron, BSEd, MEd, DC, ATC, LAT Athletic Training and Sports Health Care September/October 2014 – Volume 6 · Issue 5: 203-205 DOI: 10.3928/19425864-20140916-12 Adding a chiropractor to a sports medicine team is an important decision. The first step is to determine whether the chiropractor will be equal to or report to the team medical […]
Cranio. 2014 Oct;32(4):275-82. doi: 10.1179/0886963414Z.00000000038. Epub 2014 Apr 14. The effect of a mandibular advancement appliance on cervical lordosis in patients with TMD and cervical pain. Santander H, Zúñiga C, Miralles R, Valenzuela S, Santander MC, Gutiérrez MF, Córdova R. Abstract AIMS: A preliminary study to compare cervical lordosis by means of cervical cephalometric analysis, […]
Man Ther. 2014 Sep 10. pii: S1356-689X(14)00177-5. doi: 10.1016/j.math.2014.08.011. [Epub ahead of print] Assessment of skin blood flow following spinal manual therapy: A systematic review. Zegarra-Parodi Abstract Skin blood flow (SBF) indexes have been used to describe physiological mechanisms associated with spinal manual therapy (SMT). The aims of the current review were to assess methods […]
J Chiropr Educ. 2014 Sep 19. [Epub ahead of print] Assessing the change in attitudes, knowledge, and perspectives of medical students towards chiropractic after an educational intervention* Wong JJ, Di Loreto L, Kara A, Yu K, Mattia A, Soave D, Weyman K, Kopansky-Giles D. Abstract Objective : We assessed the change in attitudes, knowledge, and […]
Peter C Emary and Kent J Stuber Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2014, 22:34 doi:10.1186/s12998-014-0034-7 Published: 24 September 2014 Abstract (provisional) BackgroundThe right to prescribe drugs remains a contentious issue within the chiropractic profession. Nevertheless, drug prescription by manual therapy providers is currently an important topic. Notably, physiotherapists in the United Kingdom were recently granted limited […]
Explore (NY) . 2014 Sep-Oct;10(5):309-18. doi: 10.1016/j.explore.2014.06.005. Epub 2014 Jun 19. Luca Collebrusco 1, Rita Lombardini 2 PMID: 25224307 DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2014.06.005 Abstract A chronic continuous or intermittent gastrointestinal tract dysfunction, the irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), appears to be due to dysregulation of brain-gut-microbiota communication. Furthermore, the “microbiota” greatly impacts the bi-directional brain-gut axis communication. This […]
Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2014 Sep;95(9):1613-9. doi: 10.1016/j.apmr.2014.05.002. Epub 2014 May 24. Felipe Vieira-Pellenz, PT, PhD Abstract Objective To evaluate the short-term effect on spinal mobility, pain perception, neural mechanosensitivity, and full height recovery after high-velocity, low-amplitude (HVLA) spinal manipulation (SM) in the lumbosacral joint (L5-S1). Design Randomized, double-blind, controlled clinical trial with evaluations at […]
J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2014 Sep;23(8):2031-2035. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2014.03.007. Epub 2014 Jul 30. Cai X, Razmara A, Paulus JK, Switkowski K, Fariborz PJ, Goryachev SD, D’Avolio L, Feldmann E, Thaler DE. Abstract BACKGROUND: Spinal manipulation has been associated with cervical arterial dissection and stroke but a causal relationship has been questioned by population-based studies. Earlier studies […]
Annual Research Issue: Using Research to Defend Chiropractic: Medicare Edition Story Source By Dr Daniel Redwood, DC The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes transparency provisions requiring the federal government to publicly disclose data on all payments by Medicare to healthcare providers. On April 9, 2014, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) […]
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Pain Med. 2014 Sep;15(9):1455-63. doi: 10.1111/pme.12404. Epub 2014 Mar 25. Molins-Cubero S1, Rodríguez-Blanco C, Oliva-Pascual-Vaca A, Heredia-Rizo AM, Boscá-Gandía JJ, Ricard F. Abstract OBJECTIVE: This study aims to evaluate the immediate effect of a global pelvic manipulation (GPM) technique, bilaterally applied, on low back pelvic pain in women with primary dysmenorrhea (PD). DESIGN: A prospective, […]