ArticleChiropractic & manual therapies2020
So, what is chiropractic? Summary and reflections on a series of papers in Chiropractic and Manual Therapies.
Article in Chiropractic & manual therapies, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Frequency and Indications of Non-Musculoskeletal Examinations: A Cross-Sectional Survey of South African Chiropractors.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- How Much Physiotherapy, Chiropractic, and Osteopathy Care Do Compensated Australian Workers with Low Back Pain Receive? A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of occupational rehabilitation · 2025Article
- A multi-level implementation strategy to increase adoption of chiropractic care for low back pain in primary care clinics: a randomized stepped-wedge pilot study protocol.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2025Article
- Forecasting the use of chiropractic services within the Veterans Health Administration.PloS one · 2025Article
- Self-Administered Traction as an Adjunct in the Chiropractic Treatment of Low Back Pain: A Case Report.Journal of chiropractic medicine · 2024Article
- The knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of physiotherapists and chiropractors in South Africa.The South African journal of physiotherapy · 2024Article
- The rate of use of Veterans Affairs chiropractic care: a 5-year analysis.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2022Article
- Intervention usage for the management of low back pain in a chiropractic teaching clinic.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2022Article
- Chiropractic students' cognitive dissonance to statements about professional identity, role, setting and future: international perspectives from a secondary analysis of pooled data.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2021Article
- Doctors of chiropractic working with or within integrated healthcare delivery systems: a scoping review protocol.BMJ open · 2021Article
- An unusual postural headache: a case report.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
- Are Councils on Chiropractic Education expectations of chiropractic graduates changing for the better: a comparison of similarities and differences of the graduate competencies of the Chiropractic Council on Education-Australasia from 2009 to 2017.Chiropractic & manual therapies · 2020Article
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Abstract
This commentary brings the 2017-2019 thematic series What is Chiropractic? to a close. The 18 papers published in the series contribute to a better understanding of what chiropractic is, where chiropractors practice and function, who seeks their care, what chiropractors do, and how they interact with other healthcare professionals. Several papers in the series highlighted deeply rooted disagreements within chiropractic about fundamental issues pertaining to ideology, acceptance of scientific evidence as the basis for clinical practice and the future of chiropractic. If the chiropractic profession is to remain relevant in today's evidence-based healthcare environment, there is an urgent for the profession to undertake further research to describe what chiropractic is, what chiropractors do, and provide evidence for the value of these activities to patients and healthcare decision makers.
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