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Fritz et al in the medical journal, Spine 2011:36:1772 conducted research with two chiropractors and two physiotherapists, all of whom hold PhD degrees and concluded 'immediate stiffness reduction after manipulation' and a "significant relationship between immediate post-manipulation stiffness and clinical outcome."
Hebert et al (chiropractors and physiotherapists) at the University of Utah published in the journal, Sports Health, Aug.23, 2011 (official journal of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine) that there was up to 95% clinical success when manipulation was employed. These authors proposed a "clinical prediction rule and treatment classification system."
Dougherty et al at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in the Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics 2011, 34:413 studied residents average age 79 in a long term care facility, the Monroe Community Hospital where each received 12 sessions of manipulative therapy over 4 weeks.
Their pre and post-manipulative therapy lung function was measured by a respiratory specialist and concluded that "thoracic spinal manipulative therapy increases the functional mobility of the chest wall…. and benefits lung function in the elderly" with the caveat that those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have the least potential to improve lung function.
Difficult patients? Kruse et al at the National University of Health Sciences in Chicago published in the Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics 2011:34, 408 studied 32 patients before and after low back spinal surgery, followed by chiropractic manipulative therapy and adjunctive therapies for at least 2 weeks after surgery. The patients’ own self-ratings indicated 40% improvement during that short time, and with no adverse events.
Manipulation / exercise / acupuncture?
Researchers, Dr. C. Standaert, MD, orthopaedic and neurological surgery University of Washington in Seattle and Dr. M. Erwin, chiropractor/PhD, University of Toronto, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery studied these three conservative approaches and while acknowledging the variability in practitioners employing these, did conclude "more evidence for spinal manipulative therapy and exercise than for acupuncture" (journal Spine 2011;36:S120). |
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In the British Medical Journal 2011;d3260 medical researchers, Hartvigsen, Foster, & Croft concluded that “primary care” for patients with back pain and other musculoskeletal problems “should be transferred from general medical practitioners to chiropractors.”
Previous and very recent evidence-informed scientific and clinical guidelines have also confirmed that for the great majority of acute and chronic back pain patients as well as for many headache patients, chiropractic manipulative therapy is recommended by the following prestigious medical authorities…..
eg. the U.K Evidence Report on Chiropractic & Osteopathy 2010
eg. Clinical Practice Guideline by the American College of Physicians and by the American Pain Society in the Annals of Internal Medicine 2007;147(7):478.
eg. European Guidelines for Management of Acute & Chronic Back Pain 2004
(www.backpaineurope.org)
eg. in 2008 Best Evidence Synthesis on Neck Pain: Findings from the Bone & Joint Decade 2000-2010 published in the medical journal, Spine 2008;33(45):S1.
eg. McCrory & Penzien in 2001 published at Duke University an Evidence Report on Physical Treatment for Tension-type and Cervicogenic Headaches.
eg. Bryans et al in Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics 2011 (34):5:274 drafted Guidelines for Chiropractic Treatment of Adults with Headache.
eg. Rubenstein et al in 2011 published An Update of a Cochrane Review of Spinal Manipulative Therapy which again concluded that “there is high-quality evidence that spinal manipulative therapy provides statistically significant better pain relief, better functional improvement and significantly better chance of recovery, and is safer than other interventions.”
eg. Meade et al in the British Medical Journal 1990;300:1431 concluded that patients treated with chiropractic methods improved much more in terms of pain and in terms of reduced disability. |
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M. Stochkendal, PhD, D.C. whose research was conducted at an emergency cardiology department and four outpatient chiropractic clinics in Denmark on 115 patients who were re-assessed at four and then 12 weeks post-treatment. This research was presented at the Proceedings of the 11th Biennial Congress of the World Federation of Chiropractic, Toronto before going to print. |
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Senna and Machaly in the medical journal Spine 2011;10:1097 published research conducted only by medical physicians concluding that 1. spinal manipulative therapy is effective and certainly more effective than placebo for non-specific low back pain and recommended maintenance spinal manipulative therapy for long term benefits, 2. there are objective measurable benefits of manipulative therapy, 3. people who derive benefits from manipulation therapy but do not sustain such improvements when that therapy is withdrawn may often wish and require resuming supportive manipulative care to return them to previous levels of relief and function. |
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| 2011 Research |
Chiropractor, Dr. P. Bishop et al published in Spine. Journal 2010;1055 research done in the Vancouver Hospital, University of British Columbia comparing clinical practice guidelines and actual patient care. This research paper won an award from the North American Spine Society. It concluded that there is sound and consistent evidence on the best way to manage patients with back pain, and that a central aspect of clinical practice guidelines is chiropractic manipulative therapy, and that the transfer of such research knowledge to family medical physicians is poor. |
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Improving relationships between chiropractors and medical physicians occurring at the 160 bed Jordan Hospital in Cape Cod, Massachusetts where 500 patients were assessed and treated, leading to excellent co-operative care by both professions and which has been reproduced further at three other local hospital including Boston and concluding more cost-efficiency and high patient satisfaction.
The lead investigator is chiropractor, Dr. Ian Paskowski, who is also a consultant to the NHL’s Washington Capitals hockey team. |
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| Chiropractors and Sports |
Chiropractor, Dr. P. Cheung has been treating Formula One race car drivers and in 2011 was treating the youngest ever Formula 1 World Champion, Sebastian Vettel and the Red Bull Racing Team of Germany. He treats not only drivers, but also their mechanics, managers, and others. |
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| Chiropractic and Sports 2011 |
Chiropractor, Dr. B. Seaman is selected to be the Chair of the Medical Services of the 2011 Canada Winter Games, having served in similar capacities in four Winter Olympics.
Next on his agenda are the 2011 Pan American Games in Mexico. |
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Chiropractor, Dr. S. Passmore was awarded the 2011 Research professorship in the amount of $500,000.00 between the University of Manitoba, and the Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation. His position is titled, 'Assistant Professor in the School of Rehabilitative M3edicine in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba' and was awarded by the Manitoba Minister of Health and by the Dean of University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Medicine, Dr. B. Postl. |
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| 2011 – More research and other news |
Chiropractor, Dr. C. Goertz has been appointed to President Obama’s Board for the ‘Patient-Centred Outcome Research Institute’ which is the key policy group for implementation of President Obama’s new national health care plan.
Chiropractor, Dr. D. Kopansky-Giles has been appointed to the International
Co-ordinating Committee for the World Health Organization (WHO)-sponsored Bone and Joint Decades.
In 2010 chiropractor and medical researcher, Dr. P. Bishop, DC, PhD, MD and his co-authors were awarded the 2010 Outstanding Paper Award for Medical and Interventional Science by the North American Spine Society.
This award recognizes a randomized controlled clinical study demonstrating the superior value of management of back pain by chiropractic spinal adjustments and manipulation when simultaneously compared with the less effective management by family medical physicians.
Canada currently has 32 chiropractors who also hold PhD degrees, 15 of whom are in full time research with another 15 studying for PhDs.
Chiropractor, Dr. G. Hawchuk, DC, PhD is publishing research at the University of Alberta, Faculty of Rehabilitative Medicine which demonstrates that manipulation and mobilization have the greatest impact on the spinal intervertebral discs’ functions.
Chiropractor Dr. M.Haas and nurse/PhD Dr. A. Spegman published research funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in the journal, The Spine, 2010;10:117-128 that chiropractic manipulative therapy was superior to massage therapy for medically-diagnosed cervicogenic (caused by the neck) and migraine headaches in terms of reduced severity and frequency. |
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| Sports Research In 2010 |
Chiropractic researchers, Dr. W. Hoskins, DC, PhD and Dr. H. Pollard, DC. PhD in BMC 2010:Musculoskeletal Disorders 11:64 at the Macquarie University, Sydney Australia studied 2 clubs and 60 players in the Australian Football League for prevention of hamstrings injuries.
They compared management with usual medical care, medication and exercise versus chiropractic treatment with various soft tissue hands-on techniques and manipulation of knee, hip, pelvis, spine as indicated, and concluded that chiropractic management yielded “statistically significant reduced risk of injury” and no adverse reactions. The premise is that the manipulative techniques employed by the chiropractic treatments has a big impact on improved neuromuscular control of the lumbopelvic region creating improved function of the hamstrings.
ACCOLADES from the Scientific and Medical Communities:
1. This chiropractic research is profound and praised by Dr. John Orchard, M.D., injury co-ordinator for the Australian Football League and is assistant editor for the Journal of Medicine and Science in Sport.
2. Goldman and Jones in Cochrane Database 2010, Issue 1, Art.No.CD006782 praised the design and internal and external validity.
All 32 National Football League (NFL) in the United States have team chiropractors, with Jerry Rice, Hall of Famer, being national spokesperson for the chiropractic profession. Internationally, Chelsea in the U.K. and Italy’s A.C. Milan soccer teams have had team chiropractors for years. |
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In late 2010 Chiropractor, Dr. Paul Bruno, DC,. PhD was awarded the distinguished ‘Research Chair in Neuromuscular Health’ at the University of Regina.
In 2010 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II granted the title of “Royal” to the (now) “Royal College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences” {“FRCCSS”}
Since the reign of Queen Elizabeth in 1952, Her Majesty has granted only 45 royal prefixes!
To learn more, visit : http://www.ccssc.ca
You could say now that Canadian chiropractors are giving patients the “royal treatment.” |
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Chiropractor, Dr. Paul Schwann has been named Research Chair at the University of Regina, Alberta which, in concert with the Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation, provide a start-up investment of $500,00.00 in neuromuscular health. |
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Chiropractor, Dr. C. Ammendolia is a clinical epidemiologist and associate scientist for the Institute for Work and Health, is also an assistant professor at the University of Toronto's Department of Health Policy, is a staff clinician at Toronto's Mt. Sinai Hospital, department of Medicine, and is the Director of the chiropractic Spine Clinic at the Rebecca McDonald Centre for Arthritis and Autoimmune Disase. |
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Chiropractor, Dr. B. Murphy published seven journal research articles in
2009 alone (eg. Spine, JMPT, Eletromyography and Kinsesiology, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise). |
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In 2009 the Government of Canada invested $159.1 million in 181 Canada Research Chairs in 45 Canadian universities including $500,000.00 to chiropractor, Dr. G. Hawchuk.
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Effective November 1, 2009 chiropractor, Dr. D. Cassidy, who has held positions recently at the University of Toronto and Toronto Western Hospital was appointed Honourary Professor in Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark for 5 years. |
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In 2009 chiropractors, Dr. E. Crowther and Dr. J. Riva joined the Department of Family Medicine at McMaster University. |
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2009 marked the passing of chiropractor and Federal Liberal government member (elected 7 times), later to be appointed to the Senate in 1994. |
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| Research 2010 |
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The Faculty of Medicine at Montreal’s McGill University established The McGill Chiropractic Research Professorship in Epidemiology, whose Chair will be chiropractor, Dr. Richard Levin. |
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The first Canada Research Chair a few years ago was chiropractor, Dr. G. Kawchuk at the University of Alberta. |
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The government of Canada’s Institute for Health Research (CIHR) is responsible for funding such research and its budget in 2008-09 was $928.6 million, of which $132 million went to such Research Chair projects. |
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September 2009 – The Canadian government was represented by the Minister of International Co-Operation, Bev Oda at the unveiling in Port Perry, Ontario of a plaque from the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada which honoured the founder of the chiropractic profession, Dr. D.D. Palmer as bringing the chiropractic profession to a position as a “mainstream medical profession.” |
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The Minister proclaimed Dr. Palmer to join the likes of famous Canadians such as Sir Frederick Banting (inventor of insulin), Sir. William Osler, Dr. Wilder Penfield, Dr. Norman Bethune, and Dr. Hans Selye. |
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Also attending were the Mayor of Scugog, prominent members of chiropractic organizations (including one of Dr. Fuller’s classmates, Dr. R. Haig representing the Ontario Chiropractic Association), as well as Oshawa federal member of parliament and chiropractor, Dr. Colin Carrie. |
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Dr. Palmer was previously honoured in 1938 with a Port Perry park in his name to which was added a bronze bust in 1946, and in 1993 he was designated a National Historic Person of Canada. |
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2009-2011 The Ontario Chiropractic Association’s new president is Dr. David Brunarski, who graduated with Dr. Ron Fuller in 1977. Dr. Brunarski is preceded by other 1977 classmates of Dr. Fuller’s who have also served as OCA President, namely Dr. Bob Haig, Dr. Roberta Koch, Dr. Dennis Mizel. |
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Numerous other 1977 classmates of Dr. Fuller’s have held other prominent positions in the profession. Currently, Dr. David Leprich is a Director of the OCA, is also President and Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Chiropractic Association, is a member of the Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation Board of Directors, is a consultant to the St. Catharines General Hospital and the Niagara Health System, and is also the Theatre Chiropractor for the Shaw Festival Theatre in Niagara-on-the-Lake. |
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Another 1977 classmate is Dr. Howard Vernon, who has written several textbooks on the cervical spine (neck) and headaches as well as pursuing high profile research studies (see elsewhere in this ‘research’ section). |
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The Ontario government in 2009 was proceeding with Bill 179, the Regulated Health Professions Statute Amendment Act which would legislate ability for chiropractors to requisition diagnostic ultrasound and MRI for patients where clinically indicated. The Bill is expected to have 3rd and final reading in late 2009. |
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Chiropractor, Dr. G. Sovak was a fellow at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and now has a senior post-doctoral position at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. He also has degrees as a PhD and P.Engineer. |
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Chiropractor, Dr. K. Ross is currently a co-investigator in a grant study funded by the National Institutes of Health. |
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Chiropractor, Dr. D. Grondin is an ergonomic consultant in Toronto and in addition to private practice is doing research at McMaster University. |
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Chiropractor, Dr. J. Injeyan is a research associate and assistant professor of surgery at University of Toronto, as well as being a staff research scientist at the Toronto General Hospital and the Sunnybrook Trauma Research Group. |
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Chiropractor, Dr. H. Vernon also holds a PhD degree and is the author of more than 70 peer-reviewed articles, 15 book chapters and has edited two books on the upper cervical spine. He is currently the principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health-CIHR jointly funded research project on neck manipulation. |
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Chiropractor, Dr. J. Triano also holds a PhD degree and has served for many years as an editorial advisor to several scientific journals including Spine. He was research professor at the University of Texas Medical Centre, and has written 51 scientific and clinical articles and 14 book chapters. He was also the Director of Conservative Medicine at the Texas Back Institute which cares for 15,000 back patients annually. He is now cross-appointed as an associate professor with the Rehabilitation Sciences department at McMaster University. He received a Service Award from the U.S. government’s Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Triano has served as the only chiropractor on the U.S. National Committee for Quality Assurance which acknowledges chiropractors on a par with medical physicians. He is the recipient of the first NCCAM-NIH/CIHR research grant supporting studies into the mechanisms of spinal manipulation. |
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Chiropractor, Dr. D. Kopansky-Giles co-ordinates the chiropractic education programme for chiropractic students at the Department of Family and Community Services at Toronto’s St. Michael’s Hospital which presented her with a special award. She also lectures at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto which bestowed its Interprofessional Teaching Award on her. |
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Canadian chiropractor, Dr. Carlo Ammendolia was awarded in late 2009 an operating grant from the Ontario Workplace and Safety Insurance Board (WSIB) to study best evidence guidance on return to work after injury.
Dr. Ammendolia is also Director of the Chiropractic Clinic in the Department of Medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Toronto, and is an assistant professor at the Department of Health policy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. |
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Canadian chiropractor, Dr. J. Tucker represents the Canadian Chiropractic Association at the annual 2009 meeting of the Canadian Medical Association in Saskatoon. |
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Canadian chiropractor, Dr. M. Kazemi is selected to be the Medical Chair for 2010-2011 for the World Taekwondo Federation, and was involved in treating Canadian athletes at the Beijing Olympics. |
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| Chiropractic researchers Murphy et al in the medical journal BMC:2006;16 studied 57 patients with chronic low back pain and concluded that chiropractic manipulative therapy was superior to home exercise.
Similar conclusions were determined by researchers Guidavalli et al in European Spine Journal 2006;15:1070 |
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In 2009 Canada’s largest hospital-based research facility at McGill University, Montreal is co-ordinating its Faculty of Medicine with the Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation in developing Clinical Practice Guidelines. |
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In 2009 the Canadian federal government’s Minister of Industry announced investing part of $6 billion in the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto. |
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| 2009 2010 2011 |
The World Federation of Chiropractic held its annual conference in Montreal in May 2009 in concert with the Federation Internationale de Chiropratique du Sport… keynote speakers were medical doctor, Dr. Jack Taunton (2009 Vancouver Olympic Committee Chief Medical Officer) and R. Froelich, President of the International World Games Association who announced that the 2009 Vancouver Winter Olympics would include 40 treating chiropractors for athletes and the 2010 Summer Olympics in Taiwan would include 38 treating chiropractors. |
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Chiropractor, Dr. Greg Uchacz, president of the College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences of Canada (CCSS)(C) has been appointed to the 2010 Canadian Olympic Medical Team. |
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Chiropractor, Dr. B. Seamans has been appointed the Chair of Medical Services for the 2011 Canada Winter Games, the first chiropractor to serve in this capacity. |
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| More Research and Contributions in 2009 |
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Dr. Andrew Dunn is a chiropractor on staff at Western New York Veterans Administration Medical Centre. He has noted that such chiropractic services are provided at 81 military and veterans medical hospitals throughout the U.S., and that 11 American chiropractic colleges include in their training clinical rounds at these facilities. |
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| 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games - Chiropractors, Dr. Jack Taunton and Dr. Robert Armitage are respectively the Chief Medical Officer and Co-ordinator will be overseeing that chiropractic services are available to ALL athletes. |
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Dr. Jean Blouin, D.C., PhD is doing research on whiplash at University of British Columbia |
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Dr. Jason Busse, D.C., PhD is researching in the Department of Surgery, McMaster University on complex disability |
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Dr. David Cassidy, D.C., PhD, DrMedSci is a leading international researcher, currently at University of Toronto, also directs the Centre of Research Expertise in Improved Disability Outcomes in Toronto. |
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Dr. Martin Descarreaux, D.C. PhD at University of Quebec, Trois Rivieres leads a multidisciplinary group of investigators on mechanisms of spine movements |
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Dr. Mark Irwin, D.C. PhD, division of orthopaedic surgery, University of Toronto is studying regenerative treatments for spinal disc degeneration |
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Dr. Jill Haydem. D.C., PhD, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University is studying prognostic factors for low back pain |
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Dr. John Srbely, D.C. PhD, Department of Human Health, University of Guelph is studying pathophysiology of pain |
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Dr. C. Hawk, D.C., PhD serves on various health policy committees including the National Advisory Committee for Interdisciplinary Community-based Linkages of the U.S. Health resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health professions. |
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| World Health Organization (WHO) 2009 |
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| Chiropractor, Dr. M. Robinson of the U.S. became a member of WHO. |
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Canada’s 2008 Athlete of the Year, Chantal Peticlerc, a paraplegic won 5 gold medals and broke 2 world records at the Beijing Paralympics, credits chiropractic care as significant in her accomplishments when she spoke at the May 2009 World Federation of Chiropractic Congress. |
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In the medical journal, Spine in 2008- 3(25):2809 Turner et al studied 1,885 back injury claims and reported that chiropractic care was more effective (“substantially better outcomes”) in improving pain and disability and promoting return to work. This journal scientific presentation was the 2008 winner of the ISSL Prize. |
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- Vernon et al in JMPT in 2009:32)1):14
- Triano in the medical journal, JMPT in 2008 – 31:637
- Meade et al in journal of the British Medical Association 1990;300:1431
- Meade et al in BMJ 1995;311
- Curtis et al in Spine 2000;25(22):349
- Lawrence et al in JMPT 2008;31:651
- Chou et al in Annals of Internal Medicine 2007;147(7):478
- Bronfort et al in Spine 2008;8:213 |
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| Research 2009 |
The British Columbia Worker’s Compensation Board is funding a research grant comparing chiropractic treatment of low back pain with usual family physician care. |
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This involves four chiropractors and several medical doctors in the Vancouver General Hospital’s Neurosurgical and Orthopaedic Spine Programme who collaborated daily in assessing and treating back pain patients. The success of concluding the value of chiropractic treatment has already led to other hospital-based spine programmes utilizing chiropractors such as the new ICORD Spine Centre at Vancouver General Hospital. |
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| From the Journal of Manipulative and Physiologic Therapeutics January 2009, Vol.32, Issue 1, |
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Chiropractors Dr. Grantingham et al concluded that there is a number of peer-reviewed studies concluding the value of including chiropractic manipulative therapies for lower extremity conditions such as hip osteoarthritis, knee patellofemoral pain syndrome, ankle inversion sprain, plantar fasciitis, and metatarsalgia. |
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Chiropractors, Drs. Vernon and Schneider concluded that “manual therapies” (ie. hands-on) and some physiologic therapeutic modalities have acceptable evidentiary support in the treatment of myofascial pain syndromes and trigger points. |
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Chiropractors, Drs. Schneider, Vernon, Lawson searched research and concluded that several non-drug methods and manual therapies (ie. chiropractic, massage, exercise, cognitive behavioural therapy, muscle strength training, and acupuncture) have evidentiary support in the treatment of firbomyalgia. |
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These authors performed searches of the scientific literature such as the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, National Guidelines Clearinghouse, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Index to Chiropractic Literature, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and PubMed. |
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| Sporting News |
The Professional Golfer’s Association (PGA) Golfer of the Year for 2008 was Padraig Harrington who was also the first European to win back to back Golfing Major Championships. He won The British Open and USPGA Championships in 2008 and the British Open in 2007. He attributes singular value to his chiropractor, Dr. Dale Richardson who has accompanied him for 12 years (before that Padraig was missing 4 or 5 tournaments each year!). Dr. Richardson is the ONLY health professional on the PGA tour. |
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In October 2010 chiropractor, Dr. Stephanie Anisko treated athletes at the 2010 Commonwealth games In India after treating them during training in Doha, Qatar.
Dr. Anisko is herself an award-winning springboard and platform diver (was top female academic and athlete at Michigan State University and won the Big Ten Medal of Honour) and remains close to members of Canada’s National Diving Team whom she had treated in China, Moscow, Montreal, Florida, Veracruz and Changzhou. |
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Another chiropractor, Dr. Forcum was the Team Physician on the U.S. Olympic Committee and treated athletes in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and in the 2007 PanAmerican Games, the 2005 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, and the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. |
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Canadian chiropractors Dr. Alban Merezepa and Dr. Mohson Kazemi treated athletes at the Beijing Olympics. |
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Chiropractor, Dr. Stuart Lawrence treated athletes at the EVACS 2008 (athletes over age 35 from all over Europe). |
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Chiropractor Dr. Gerg Oke was the team chiropractor for the New Zealand athletes at the Athens Olympics (2004) and Beijing Olympics (2008). |
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Chiropractor Dr. Mike Reed in 2008 was hired as the medical director for the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Sports Performance Division. He was the U.S. Weightlifting Team Physician at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and in 1996 at Atlanta Olympics. |
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Numerous other chiropractors have travelled with their country’s athletes to various Olympics (eg. Dr. Plinio Barreto of Brazil in Beijing; Dr. Daniele Bertamini for Italy at Beijing; Dr. Per Rehn for Sweden, Dr. Jan Sorenson for Denmark, Dr. Tim Marshall for Canada at the 2008 Olympics). Others are scheduled to treat athletes at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and 2012 Olympics in London. |
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2008 Canada Federal Elections
Chiropractors who were re-elected as federal Members of Parliament: |
- Dr. Colin Carrie (Oshawa)
- Dr. Ruby Dhalla (Brampton)
- Dr. Gary Goodyear (Cambridge)
- Dr. James Lunney (Nanaimo)
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2008 Research |
Chiropractor Dr. P. Cote, D.C., PhD was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto on July 1, 2008. Dr. Cote is also a member of the Scientific Secretariat of the 2000-2010 Decade Task Force on Neck Pain and Associated Disorders. |
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Another chiropractor/neurologist, Dr. S. Haldeman, D.C., PhD., M.D., FCCS, FRCP(C) is the President of that 10 year Task Force which to date has reviewed 32,000 research citations and has performed critical appraisals of the more than 1,000 research studies that were relevant to its mandate. |
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A 3rd chiropractor, Dr. D. Cassidy, contributes to the Task Force and has authored more than 200 scientific papers and chapters in books, including in the New England Journal of Medicine, Spine, Pain, Medical Care, Clinical Epidemiology, Accident Analysis and Prevention, the Canadian Journal of Public Health, Journal of Rehabilitative Medicine, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.
Dr. Cassidy is also a Professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of Toronto. He is Research Director of Rehabilitation Solutions at Toronto Western Hospital, Director of the Centre of Research Expertise in Improved Disability Outcomes with the Toronto University Network, and is also Senior Scientist of the Division of Health Care and Outcomes Research at Toronto Western Hospital Research Institute. |
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Another chiropractor, Dr. J. Triano was awarded a research grant in 2008 jointly from the U.S.-based National Centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and from the National Institutes of Health and from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to study further the science of manual therapies. |
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Another chiropractor, Dr. J. Busse in 2008 was awarded the prestigious “Research Chair”, a five year award which is partnered between the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation. His research is ongoing at the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University. |
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In 2007 alone Dr. Busse published 16 research papers. |
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2009 World Federation of Chiropractic Congress |
Dr. D. Eisenberg of Harvard University is keynote speaker, is internationally famous for scientific articles concerning growth and integration of complementary and alternative medicine in health care, as experienced at the Harvard Teaching Hospital. He is currently advisor to the U.S. National Health Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration. |
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Dr. S. Haldeman, DC, MD, PhD,FRCP©, neurologist and chiropractor
Dr. F. Fontaine, DC,MD
Dr. R. Armitage, chiropractor and
Dr. J. Taunton, medical doctor on integration of chiropractic in the sports medicine team for 2010 Vancouver Olympics. |
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2010 Olympic Games
Canada will have 13 doctors of chiropractic credentialed with the Canadian Olympic Team.
At the Beijing Olympics, Canada had the largest contingent of chiropractors treating athletes, while there was a total of fifteen countries with chiropractors treating their athletes. |
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U.S. chiropractor, Dr. M. Reed is one of two medical directors of the U.S. Sports Performance Division of the U.S. Olympic Committee Training Centre, Colorado Springs. |
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Research in the journal Spine 2008;8(1):1-278 by Dr. S. Haldeman, DC.PhD,MD,FRCP at the University of California at Irvine and Dr. S. Dagenais, DC. PhD at the University of Ottawa concluded that the reasonable approach to treatment of chronic low back pain should include chiropractic manipulative therapy. They also advised questioning the routine use of xrays, lab tests, CT, MRI discography, NCS, EMG testing as these have “clearly no consensus that these have any value in the decision-making process before offering a treatment for chronic low back pain.” |
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In 1998 the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) started collaborating with 12 university-based research sites across Canada to facilitate inter-disciplinary research.
The Canadian Chiropractic Association participates in international projects such as in Denmark’s multi-nation research study into non-musculoskeletal effects of chiropractic care. These researchers are also involved in the Bone and Joint Decade Task Force (2000-2010) on Neck Pain & Associated Disorders. |
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For over 5 decades the CMCC has been involved in research including the 2003 Ontario government award of $2 million to study collaborative inter-professional practice.
Numerous chiropractic researchers are funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada, Health Canada, Ontario Ministry of Health & Long Term Care, Industry Canada, Alberta CIHR Training Program in Bone & Joint Health, and the Canada Primary Care Transition Fund, just to name a few |
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Chiropractic researchers have published research articles in medical journals such as New England Journal Of Medicine, The Lancet. Annals of Internal Medicine, Arthritis & Rheumatism, Spine, Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Clinical Journal of Pain, Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics, British Medical Journal, Journal of Canadian Chiropractic Association, Canadian Family Physician.
Chiropractors such as Dr. G. Kawchuk holds positions a Research Chair in Spinal Function & assistant professor in Rehabilitation medicine at the University of Alberta, While Dr. M. Irwin holds positions as CCRF CIHR Research Chair at the University of Toronto and assistant professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery University of Toronto, Dr. J.Hayden is scientist at the Centre for Research Expertise in Improved Disability Outcomes at Toronto Western Hospital, Dr. G. Bove, Professor of Anaesthesia Beth Israel Medical Centre at Harvard Medical School, Dr. J. Blouin Professor at University of British Columbia. |
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Canadian chiropractic colleges have research relationships with the Universities of Alberta, Calgary, Saskatchewan, Toronto, Laval, Montreal, Ryerson.
Collaborative research published in 2005 by NCMIC conducted by J. Triano, D.C.,PhD,FCCS, G. Hawchuk, D.C,PhD, M. Hanline, D.C., MPH, M. Hill, M.D.,FRCPC, S. Wynd, D.C. on ‘Current Concepts on Spinal Manipulation.’ |
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Koes et al in Spine 2001;26(22):2504 reviewed 11 sets of evidence-based multidisciplinary national guidelines for management of low back pain between
1984-2000 and concluded “recommending skilled spinal manipulation.”
Hoving et al in the Clinical Journal of Pain 2006;Vol.22Iss.4 concluded that chiropractic spinal manipulation was more effective for 183 patients with
neck pain than was general medical practitioner care or physiotherapy.
Koes et al in the British Medical Journal 2006;332:1430 studied 1,000 randomized controlled trials and recommended manipulative therapy.
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Stapley et al in Clinical Neurophysiology 2006 concluded that soft tissue therapy and joint mobilization helped whiplash patients having neck pain and
postural sway.
Santilli et al in Spine 2006;6:131 conducted a randomized clinical trial on 102 patients in Rome that concluded the effectiveness and safety of chiropractic
Manipulation for patients with disc protrusion (as confirmed by MRI to have intact, not ruptured annulus) causing low back pain and sciatica.
Biondi in the Journal of Pain 2005, Vol.45, Iss.6 reviewed the National Library of Medicine and the Cochrane Library and concluded that chiropractic
manipulative therapy demonstrated a trend toward benefit in treatment of tension-type headache, including migraine. |
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Hurwitz et al in Spine 2005;30(19):2121performed a randomized clinical trial of 681 back patients and concluded that those treated by chiropractors were
more satisfied with recovery from pain and disability than those managed by medical physicians.
On October 11, 2004 Legoretta at UCLA School of Public Health reported in the Archives of the American Medical Association a study of 700,000
patients with no chiropractic coverage versus a group of 1 million who did have chiropractic insurance coverage, and concluded that the cost of treatment
for those receiving chiropractic care was 28% lower than for those with no coverage for such care.
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Childs et al in Annals of Internal Medicine 2004;Vol.141:1 concluded that those receiving chiropractic spinal manipulation demonstrated twice as fast
recovery.
Evans and Brontfort in Spine 2002;2:27 studied 20 patients for 2 years and found that the best results came from the group receiving manipulative treatment.
Jordan and Manniche in Journal of Neuromuscular System 1997, Vol.4#3 wrote that “studies published to date conclude inadequate results from exercise
alone, superior results from manipulative treatment.”
Hoving et al in Annals of Internal Medicine 2002;136:713 reported that chiropractic manipulative therapy was more effective than standard medical methods. |
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In January 2007 Dr. S. Gorchynski, president of the Canadian Chiropractic Association began working relationships with Dr. F. Jiwa, president of Osteoporosis Canada. |
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Weinstein et al in the Journal of the American Medical Association 2006;296:2442 concluded that patients with disc herniation recover almost equally with surgical or non-surgical care such as chiropractic, even in the presence of severe sciatica. “The lead investigators note that it raises questions about the appropriateness of these back surgeries.” |
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