ArticleChiropractic & manual therapies2011
Chiropractic at the crossroads or are we just going around in circles?
Article in Chiropractic & manual therapies, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
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The trial behind it
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Attitudes and perceptions of health care professionals concerning chiropractors and chiropractic practice: a systematic review.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2026Pooled it
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- Skills, attitudes and uptake of evidence-based practice: a cross-sectional study of chiropractors in the Swedish Chiropractic Association.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2021Article
- Factors influencing Australian chiropractors who choose not to join national professional associations: a qualitative study.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2020Article
- The accreditation role of Councils on Chiropractic Education as part of the profession's journey from craft to allied health profession: a commentary.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2020Review
- The shape of chiropractic in Europe: a cross sectional survey of chiropractor's beliefs and practice.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2019Article
- Chiropractic, one big unhappy family: better together or apart?Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2019Article
- The Chiropractic Vertebral Subluxation Part 5: The First Research Era From 1928 to 1949.Journal of chiropractic humanities · 2018Article
- The Chiropractic Vertebral Subluxation Part 10: Integrative and Critical Literature From 1996 and 1997.Journal of chiropractic humanities · 2018Article
- The identity, role, setting, and future of chiropractic practice: a survey of Australian and New Zealand chiropractic students.The Journal of chiropractic education · 2018Article
- The prevalence of the term subluxation in chiropractic degree program curricula throughout the world.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2018Article
- Historical influence on the practice of chiropractic radiology: part II - thematic analysis on the opinions of diplomates of the American Chiropractic College of Radiology about the future.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2017Article
- Historical influence on the practice of chiropractic radiology: Part I - a survey of Diplomates of the American Chiropractic College of Radiology.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2017Article
- The new chiropractic.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2016Article
- Similarities and differences of graduate entry-level competencies of chiropractic councils on education: a systematic review.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2016Review
- A survey of Australian chiropractors' attitudes and beliefs about evidence-based practice and their use of research literature and clinical practice guidelines.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2013Article
- Essential literature for the chiropractic profession: a survey of chiropractic research leaders.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2013Article
- A health care system in transformation: making the case for chiropractic.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2012Article
- The Five Eras of Chiropractic & the future of chiropractic as seen through the eyes of a participant observer.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2012Article
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Authors and funding
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Abstract
backgroundChiropractic in Australia has seen many changes over the past 30 years. Some of these changes have advanced the professional status of chiropractic, improved undergraduate training and paved the way for a research culture. Unfortunately, other changes or lack of changes, have hindered the growth, public utilisation and professional standing of chiropractic in Australia. This article explores what influences have impacted on the credibility, advancement and public utilisation of chiropractic in Australia. DISCUSSION: The 1970's and 1980's saw a dramatic change within the chiropractic profession in Australia. With the advent of government regulation, came government funded teaching institutions, quality research and increased public acceptance and utilisation of chiropractic services. However, since that time the profession appears to have taken a backward step, which in the author's opinion, is directly linked to a shift by sections of the profession to the fundamentalist approach to chiropractic and the vertebral subluxation complex. The abandonment, by some groups, of a scientific and evidenced based approach to practice for one founded on ideological dogma is beginning to take its toll. SUMMARY: The future of chiropractic in Australia is at a crossroads. For the profession to move forward it must base its future on science and not ideological dogma. The push by some for it to become a unique and all encompassing alternative system of healthcare is both misguided and irrational.
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