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Association Between Chiropractic Spinal Manipulative Therapy and Benzodiazepine Prescription in...

Chiro.Org Blog: These findings suggest that receiving chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy (CSMT) for newly diagnosed radicular low back pain (rLBP) is associated with reduced odds of receiving a...

Associations Between Early Chiropractic Care and Physical Therapy on Subsequent Opioid Use Among...

Chiro.Org Blog: In this study we found that receipt of chiropractic care, though not PT, may have disrupted the need for opioids and, in particular, long-term opioid use (LTOU) in newly diagnosed LBP.

Acute Inflammatory Response via Neutrophil Activation Protects Against the Development of Chronic...

Chiro.Org Blog: In mouse pain assays, early treatment with a steroid or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) also led to prolonged pain despite being analgesic in the short term; such a...

Characteristics, Expectations, Experiences of Care, and Satisfaction of Patients Receiving Chirop...

Chiro.Org Blog: Most participants presented with chronic neck and low back pain and depressive symptoms. We identified facilitators and barriers for patient expectation and satisfaction with chirop...

Spinal Manipulative Therapy in Older Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain: An Individual Participant...

Chiro.Org Blog: Spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) is equally as effective as recommended interventions for the treatment of chronic low back pain in the older adult. Over three quarters of the data...

Where to Start? A Two Stage Residual Inclusion Approach to Estimating Influence of the Initial...

Chiro.Org Blog: Total cost of care was lowest when starting with a chiropractor ($5,093) or primary care physician ($5,660), and highest when starting with an orthopedist ($9,434) or acupuncturist...

Memorial Day: In Memory of Those Who Have Fallen

Limited Prognostic Value of Pain Duration in Non-specific Neck Pain Patients Seeking Chiropractic...

Chiro.Org Blog: Significance statement:   The relatively large dataset of neck pain patients challenges the widely accepted wisdom that pain duration is an important predictor of pain outcomes and...

Initial Choice of Spinal Manipulation Reduces Escalation of Care for Chronic Low Back Pain Among...

Chiro.Org Blog: SMT was associated with lower rates of escalation of care as compared to OAT. The adjusted rate of escalated care encounters was approximately 2.5 times higher for initial choice of...

Spinal Manipulative Therapy for Acute Neck Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomi...

Chiro.Org Blog: SMT alone or in combination with other modalities was effective for patients with acute neck pain. However, limited quantity and quality, pragmatic design, and high heterogeneity...

The Passing of a Giant – Chester Wilk dies at 91

Spinal Manipulation vs Prescription Drug Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain: Beliefs, Satisfaction...

Chiro.Org Blog: Among older Medicare beneficiaries with cLBP, long-term recipients of SMT had higher self-reported rates of HRQoL and greater satisfaction with SMT than did long-term recipients of...

Development and Evaluation of the MAINTAIN Instrument, Selecting Patients Suitable for Secondary or...

Chiro.Org Blog: The MAINTAIN instrument is a brief cinical tool with a simple scoring algorithm that has a very good to excellent diagnostic accuracy with regard to selecting dysfunctional patients...

Care Outcomes for Chiropractic Outpatient Veterans (COCOV): A Single-arm, Pragmatic, Pilot Trial of...

Chiro.Org Blog: We demonstrated the feasibility of participant recruitment, retention, and electronic data collection for conducting a pragmatic clinical trial of chiropractic care in a Veterans...

Multidisciplinary Integrative Care Versus Chiropractic Care for Low Back Pain: A Randomized...

Chiro.Org Blog: Low back pain patients who received integrative care by a multidisciplinary integrative care team tended to have better outcomes than those who received chiropractic care. However,...

Utilization of Chiropractic Services in Patients with Osteoarthritis and Spine Pain at a Publicly...

Chiro.Org Blog: Statistically significant improvements that exceed a clinically meaningful difference in pain numeric rating scale scores were demonstrated by point change reductions from baseline to...

Chiropractic in the United States Military Health System: A 25th-Anniversary Celebration of the...

Chiro.Org Blog: Whether starting in the Chiropractic Health Care Demonstration Project (CHCDP) or the permanent benefit program, the early Military Health System (MHS) chiropractors were instrumental...

Health-related Quality of Life Among United States Service Members with Low Back Pain Receiving...

Chiro.Org Blog: Pre-planned secondary outcomes from this rigorous, pragmatic RCT demonstrate that chiropractic care can positively impact HRQOL beyond pain and pain-related disability. This along...

Characteristics of Older Adults with Back Pain Associated with Choice of First Primary Care...

Chiro.Org Blog: We found that nearly all older adults with back pain seeking primary care had experienced back pain previously, and recurring episodes were common. In general, patients with more...

Attitudes Towards Chiropractic: A Repeated Cross-sectional Survey of Canadian Family Physicians

Chiro.Org Blog: Although generally positive, Canadian family physicians’ attitudes towards chiropractic range from very positive to extremely negative, and most physicians acknowledge that practice...