Chiropractic

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Diversity Versus Unity: Does Making Things Count Mean Making Everything Count? — Dec 31, 2006

In a key note speech at the 2006 Canadian National Chiropractic Convention held in Vancouver BC, the author discusses the challenge for Canadian chiropractic as a profession. There has always been a strong element of diversity within the profession.

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Chiropractic in North America: A Descriptive Analysis — Dec 31, 2004

Barriers to providing mental health services

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Communication in the Chiropractic Health Encounter Sociological and Anthropological Approaches — Dec 31, 2003

This chapter defines what is meant by a health encounter, and discusses methodological issues and main findings of qualitative research into the chiropractic health encounter.

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Professionalism and Ethics in Chiropractic — Dec 31, 2003

Chiropractic was thought to be unique in being both professional (sharing the characteristics of a profession), but also being socially stigmatized at the same time. The objective of this paper includes defining professionalism, explaining the differences between professionalism and ethics, identifing professional boundary issues in chiropractic, describing how far the chiropractic profession has come.

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Competing Views of Chiropractic: Health Services Research Versus Ethnographic Observation — Dec 31, 2003

This chapter presents different views of chiropractic and then explores the basis of the differences.

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Patients Using Chiropractors in North America: Who Are They, and Why Are They in Chiropractic Care? — Dec 31, 2001

These data support the theory that patients seek chiropractic care almost exclusively for musculoskeletal symptoms and that chiropractors and their patients share a similar belief system.

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Chiropractic — Dec 31, 2001

Chiropractic services are the most frequently used of the complementary and alternative medicine approaches.

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A Chiropractic Supplemental Item Set for the Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study — Dec 31, 1999

This study produced 10 items that are compatible with the CAHPS core items and are recommended for inclusion as supplemental CAHPS survey items.

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Clinical Reasoning, Clinical Decision Analysis, and Clinical Intuition: The Think No Evil, Do No Evil, Know No Evil of Clinical Practice? — Dec 31, 1997

During the last 30 years much work has been done in the health professions to understand and teach clinical decision making.

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What Role for Chiropractic in Health Care? — Dec 31, 1997

Chiropractors have become the third largest group of health professionals in the United States (after physicians and dentists) who have primary contact with patients. In the last decade of the 20th century, chiropractic has begun to shed its status as a marginal approach to care and is becoming more mainstream. At this juncture, it seems appropriate to ask what the role of chiropractic should be in health care.

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Efficacy and Risks of Chiropractic Manipulation: What Does the Evidence Suggest? — Dec 31, 1997

This article reports on two studies of the appropriateness of manipulation conducted at RAND using systematic literature reviews and expert panels.

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Congruence Between Decisions to Initiate Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation for Low Back Pain and Appropriateness Criteria in North America — Dec 31, 1997

The report concludes that the proportion of chiropractic spinal manipulation judged to be congruent with appropriateness criteria is similar to proportions previously described for medical procedures; thus, the findings provide some reassurance about the appropriate application of chiropractic care.

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A Comparative Study of Chiropractic and Medical Education — Dec 31, 1997

Chiropractic and allopathic medicine differ the greatest in clinical practice, which in medical school far exceeds that in chiropractic school. The therapies that chiropractic and medical students learn are distinct from one another, and the settings in which students receive clinical training are different and isolated from one another.

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Health Services Research Related to Chiropractic: Review and Recommendations for Research Prioritization by the Chiropractic Profession — Dec 31, 1996

Reports the results of an effort that drew upon available literature on the chiropractic profession.

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Chiropractic Approaches to Wellness and Healing — Dec 31, 1995

Discusses chiropractic approaches to wellness and healing, and points to increasing evidence that the chiropractic is involved in wellness care. However, what is missing from this involvement in wellness care are good outcome studies of wellness interventions by chiropractors. Obtaining this evidence will require acceptance of a new research paradigm, one that moves beyond traditional empiricist methods to grounded, qualitative research…

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The Role of the Chiropractor in the Changing Health Care System — Dec 31, 1995

Based on data collected from about 500 chiropractic patients and 44 chiropractors in the Los Angeles area, this article examines the chiropractor's role in the changing health care system. The authors found that the most frequent recommendations of chiropractors are most directly relevant to the complaints of back-related problems, rather than to general health and preventive care.

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Spine Update: Spinal Manipulation — Dec 31, 1993

There has been increasing interest in the use of spinal manipulation, which has been reported in the scientific literature and the popular media.

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A Brief Introduction to the Critical Reading of the Clinical Literature — Dec 31, 1993

Clinicians are bombarded by reports of new diagnostic tests or treatments for patients with spine problems.

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The Physician, the Patients, and the Person: The Humanistic Challenge — Dec 31, 1992

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Alternative Philosophical and Investigatory Paradigms for Chiropractic — Dec 31, 1992

Authors commentary on concerns in the chiropractic field about appropriate educational and research paradigms. He suggests that chiropractic should examine the debates going on in the social sciences about the relevance of positivist empiricist science to social phenomenon.

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