Distance Education: The Benefits of Spinal Manipulation

  Here is an online course developed by Dr. Kim Ross of the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC). The course description:
This presentation looks at clinical trials of spinal manipulation to discrepancies in the literature, and mechanisms by which manipulation produces its clinical effect. What you will find is that some of the mechanistic assumptions of [...]

Chiropractic Treatment Tables

  This article [available free online] was just published in the March 2008 issue of the Journal of Chiropractic Medicine:
Evans MW, Campbell A, Husbands C, Breshears J, Ndetan H, Rupert R. Cloth-covered chiropractic treatment tables as a source of allergens and pathogenic microbes. J Chiropr Med 2008; 7(1): 34-38.
Objective: Vinyl chiropractic tables have been found to [...]

IN-CAM Outcomes Database

  Here is a terrific new resource from IN-CAM, the Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research, an interdisciplinary, collaborative research network, created to foster excellence in CAM research in Canada.
The goal of this database is to include practical and accessible information on outcome measures within a framework of domains that are important to CAM [...]

Individual patient education for low back pain (Cochrane Review)

  A January 2008 version of this Cochrane Review, first published last September, is now available online [subscription required to view the complete review]:
Engers A, Jellema P, Wensing M, van der Windt DAWM, Grol R, van Tulder MW. Individual patient education for low back pain. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 1. Art. No.: [...]

Diagnostic imaging practice guidelines for musculoskeletal complaints in adults — an evidence-based approach

   This series of practice guidelines has been published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics [full text by subscription]:
Bussières AE, Peterson C, Taylor JA. Diagnostic imaging practice guidelines for musculoskeletal complaints in adults — an evidence-based approach. Introduction. J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2007 Nov-Dec;30(9):617-83.
Imaging technology can improve patient outcomes by allowing greater precision in [...]

Expenditures and health status among adults with back and neck problems

  The study below was just published in the February 13 issue of JAMA [subscription required].
Read about the study in MedPage Today and in Medical News Today.
Martin BI, Deyo RA, Mirza SK, Turner JA, Comstock BA, Hollingworth W et al. Expenditures and health status among adults with back and neck problems. JAMA 2008; 299(6):656-664.
Context: Back and [...]

The integration of chiropractors into healthcare teams: a case study from sport medicine

  The study from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, was published in the January 2008 issue of Sociology of Health & Illness [full text by subscription]:
Theberge N. The integration of chiropractors into healthcare teams: a case study from sportmedicine. Sociol Health Illness 2008 Jan;30(1):19-34.
This article examines the integration of chiropractors into multi-disciplinary healthcare teams in [...]

Chiropractic manipulation: reasons for concern?

Check out this report of three cases, published recently in Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery:
Gouveia LO, Castanho P, Ferreira JJ, Guedes MM, Falcão F, e Melo TP. Chiropractic manipulation: reasons for concern? Clin Neurol Neurosurg 2007 Dec;109(10):922-5.
Abstract: Chiropractic’s popularity is rising among the general population. Moreover, few studies have been conducted to properly evaluate its safety. We [...]

Chiropractors and the risk of stroke: new research from Spine

  On January 19, 2008, the following article was published in the Globe and Mail:
Alphonso, C. Chiropractors don’t raise stroke risk, study says. Globe and Mail; January 19, 2009. The article begins:
A Canadian study indicates there is no increased risk related to chiropractic treatment in the heated debate about whether neck adjustments can trigger a [...]

Evidence-Informed Management of Chronic Low Back Pain (CLBP) Without Surgery

   The January-February 2008 issue of The Spine Journal is devoted to the evidence-informed management of chronic low back pain [free full text is available]. See the editors’ preface at the bottom of this page.  Journal link    PubMed Records
Introduction:

A supermarket approach to the evidence-informed management of chronic low back pain

A systematic review of low back [...]