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Chiropractic Research
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Quote of the Year: “Even more remarkable is the efficiency of chiropractic research. When compared to the NIH budget of nearly $20 billion, the $10 million investment in federal funds is substantially less than a tenth of 1 percent, which makes it less than a rounding error. Put another way, as a couple of wags have offered in the past, the federal government must believe in alternative medicine, because it has given chiropractic researchers homeopathic doses of money with which to work.”
Thanks to Dr. Anthony Rosner's wonderful sense of humor! Please review his complete presentation to the Institute of Medicine.
What's New?
Chiropractic Research for a Variety of Conditions
Our newest section details the impact of chiropractic on General Health. You can also review sections on Asthma, Attention Deficit, Blindness, Infertility, Otitis Media and a variety of other conditions.
Research and the Bottom Line: Learn How Research Helps Overturn Claim Denials and Reverses Insurance Policies
ACAnews May 2009
How often has this happened in your practice? You submit an insurance claim, only to receive a denial, labeling the treatment or diagnostic testing you conducted as "observational" or "investigational." It's a response familiar to many doctors of chiropractic. Organizations like CCGPP and FCER make it their business to stay on top of the latest research affecting chiropractic, and they frequently publish the types of reviews and syntheses that you need to make your case to third-party payers. Learn more here.
Participate in “Practice-Based Research”
We would like to extend an open invitation to U.S. chiropractors to participate in an exciting new research program at Cleveland Chiropractic College: the Cleveland Practice-Based Research (PBR) Program. PBR is a partnership between practitioners and an academic institution to gather data from real-life practice. Each partner does what they do best: practitioners provide their usual excellent chiropractic care, and the Cleveland Chiropractic Research Center will collect and analyze data to document that care. Read more now!
Instrument Adjusting, a.k.a. Mechanically-assisted Adjustments
This page gathers articles discussing the use of mechanically-assisted instrument adjusting. If you find any other articles that discuss instrument or drop-table adjusting, would you please contact me?
The Problem with Placebo/Shams
A trial, looking for the effects of chiropractic care for asthma, "seemed" to reveal that chiropractic was "no better" than placebo or sham care. Strangely, both the chiropractic and sham treatment groups improved. This raises interesting questions about how inert the sham care actually was. This page addresses the difficulties of designing a "neutral" sham in a chiropractic (or CAM) trial.
The Spinal Allignment/Cervical Curve Page
Our spine is a “structural” unit. There are 4 curves to the spine. Loss of structural integrity and/or normal function of the spine is the basis for the evolution of the vertebral subluxation. Abnormal stresses occur in the facets, discs and supporting tissues when normal motion of the spine is impaired. Chiropractic analysis should be aimed at locating the specific segments which are subluxated, as well as providing the means to “free” those segments.
About Chiropractic Adjusting, a.k.a. Spinal Manipulation
The proper differential diagnosis of somatic vs. visceral dysfunction represents a challenge for both the medical and chiropractic physician. The afferent convergence mechanisms, which can create signs and symptoms that are virtually indistinguishable with respect to their somatic vs. visceral etiologies, need to be appreciated by all portal-of-entry health care providers, to insure timely referral of patients to the health specialist appropriate to their condition.
Articles About Chiropractic
Chiropractic Research for a Variety of Conditions
Our newest section details the impact of chiropractic on General Health. You can also review sections on Asthma, Attention Deficit, Blindness, Infertility, Otitis Media and a variety of other conditions.
All About the Chiropractic Research Agenda
This section contains articles about the creation of Chiropractic's "Research Agenda", discriptions of the "Consortial Center for Chiropractic Research", and information about the "Research Agenda Conferences" (RAC I-X).
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