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ArticleThe Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association2008

Multinational survey of chiropractic patients: reasons for seeking care.

Charles Blum, Gary Globe, Lisa Terre, Timothy A Mirtz, Leon Greene, Denise Globe

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Article in The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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6 authors.

Charles BlumSacro Occipital Technique Organization, USA. drcblum@aol.com
Gary Globe
Lisa Terre
Timothy A Mirtz
Leon Greene
Denise Globe

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThis study explores the extent to which consumers seek wellness care when choosing chiropractors whose practice methods are known to include periodic evaluative and interventional methods to maintain wellness and prevent illness.

methodsUsing an international convenience sample of Sacro-Occipital Technique (SOT) practitioners, 1316 consecutive patients attending 27 different chiropractic clinics in the USA, Europe and Australia completed a one-page survey on intake to assess reason for seeking care. A forced choice response was obtained characterizing the patient's reason for seeking chiropractic care.

resultsMore than 40% of chiropractic patient visits were initiated for the purposes of health enhancement and/or disease prevention.

conclusionAlthough prudence dictates great caution when generalizing from this study, if confirmed by subsequent research among other similar cohorts, the present results may lend support to continued arguments of consumer demand for a more comprehensive paradigm of chiropractic care, beyond routine musculoskeletal complaints, that conceptualizes the systemic, nonspecific effects of the chiropractic encounter in much broader terms.

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carechiropracticwellness

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PMID18769601
PMCPMC2528271

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