Source The World Federation of Chiropractic
The World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) is pleased to announce the debut of an important, online, free service for the chiropractic profession and the public it serves – a Suggested Reading List of key research papers.
When you want an overview of research on a chiropractic topic, for yourself, for patients or to advocate for the profession, wouldn’t it be nice to have access to relevant papers collected in one location?
“That is the vision for this WFC project,” says WFC President Dr Greg Stewart of Canada. “The project is being led by Dr Greg Kawchuk of the University of Alberta, Chair of the WFC Research Council, who has brought together expert curators from within the Research Council and abroad. We owe them a great debt for the expertise and hard work that has produced this exciting new service.”
The initial version of the Suggested Reading List goes live today at www.wfcsuggestedreadinglist.com with 10 key papers curated in each of 21 subject areas. These subject areas include cost-effectiveness of care, biomechanical and neurophysiological mechanisms of action, safety, pediatrics, wellness and many others. Each listed paper includes the published abstract and link to the original publication when available. Importantly, the site is searchable and visitors can leave suggestions for new topics and papers.
“This is just the beginning of this project,” explains Dr Kawchuk. “We are already working on round two which will add new topic areas such as nutrition and public health.
This project has been possible because of generous sponsorship from NCMIC and Standard Process, two of the WFC’s long-standing and most supportive partners.
The WFC, whose members are 90 national associations of chiropractors worldwide including both the ACA and ICA in the USA, has been a non-governmental organization or NGO in official relations with the World Health Organization since 1997. Its next major Congress is in Athens, Greece May 13-16, 2015. For more information visit www.wfc.org .
Of course, our own Dr Frank Painter has been compiling studies at chiro org for many years. Those papers can be found in his Research section and in many other places on our website. Be sure and follow us on Facebook and Twitter and never miss an article.
Hi John
That’s where our Search Section comes in handy. The Research Section (What’s New) does point at all the various research study locations, because so many are now “bundled” within specialty pages, like chronic neck pain, or low back pain.