ArticleThe Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association2016
Subluxation and semantics: a corpus linguistics study.
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- Prevalence of Chiropractic-Specific Terminology on Chiropractors' Websites in the United Kingdom With Comparison to Australia: An Analysis of Samples.Journal of chiropractic humanities · 2021Article
- Words matter: the prevalence of chiropractic-specific terminology on Australian chiropractors' websites.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2020Article
- Comparison of chiropractic student lexicon at two educational institutions: a cross-sectional survey.The Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association · 2019Article
- The prevalence of the term subluxation in chiropractic degree program curricula throughout the world.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2018Article
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Abstract
introductionThe purpose of this study was to analyze the curriculum of one chiropractic college in order to discover if there were any implicit consensus definitions of the term subluxation.
methodsUsing the software WordSmith Tools, the corpus of an undergraduate chiropractic curriculum was analyzed by reviewing collocated terms and through discourse analysis of text blocks containing words based on the root 'sublux.'
resultsIt was possible to identify 3 distinct concepts which were each referred to as 'subluxation:' i) an acute or instantaneous injurious event; ii) a clinical syndrome which manifested post-injury; iii) a physical lesion, i.e. an anatomical or physiological derangement which in most instances acted as a pain generator.
conclusionsIn fact, coherent implicit definitions of subluxation exist and may enjoy broad but subconscious acceptance. However, confusion likely arises from failure to distinguish which concept an author or speaker is referring to when they employ the term subluxation.
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