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Leading Pediatric Researcher Appointed Chair of Pediatric Research @ Life Chiropractic College West

By Frank M. Painter|September 2, 2011|Announcement|

Leading Pediatric Researcher Appointed Chair of Pediatric Research @ Life Chiropractic College West

Hayward, Calif., — On Thursday, September 1, 2011, Joel Alcantara, D.C., a prominent chiropractic researcher, joins the research team at Life Chiropractic College West as the newly appointed Chair of Pediatric Research.

Dr. Alcantara is one of the rising stars in chiropractic pediatric research. He received his Bachelors of Science degree in Chemistry at the University of Calgary and graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic West in 1995. Prior to his appointment as Research Director of the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA), he was on the research faculty at Palmer West and Life West. He lectures internationally on pediatric chiropractic and has numerous peer-reviewed publications and a contributing author in textbooks such as Pediatric Chiropractic, Somatovisceral Aspects of Chiropractic and Fundamentals of Chiropractic. (more…)

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Findings of the Bone and Joint Decade Neck Pain Task Force: Interview with Scott Haldeman, DC, MD, PhD

By Frank M. Painter|September 1, 2011|Neck Pain, Research|

Findings of the Bone and Joint Decade Neck Pain Task Force: Interview with Scott Haldeman, DC, MD, PhD

The Chiro.Org Blog

SOURCE: Health Insights Today

An Interview by Daniel Redwood, DC

Scott Haldeman chaired the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and Its Related Disorders, the most comprehensive multidisciplinary review on neck pain ever undertaken.

As with similar projects, the Task Force reviewed and evaluated all existing research on the diagnosis and treatment of neck pain. But it went further, initiating original research in insufficiently explored areas, including the now-renowned study by David Cassidy and colleagues which demonstrated that strokes are no more likely after a visit to a chiropractor than after a visit to a medical doctor. In this Health Insights Today interview, Dr. Haldeman discusses the major findings of the Neck Pain Task Force and their implications for the management of this challenging condition.

Dr. Haldeman holds the positions of Clinical Professor, Department of Neurology, University of California, Irvine; Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles; and Adjunct Professor, Department of Research, Southern California University of Health Sciences. He is Past President of the North American Spine Society, the American Back Society, the North American Academy of Manipulative Therapy, and the Orange County Neurological Society. He served on the Executive Council of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine. (more…)

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And, Speaking of Professor Edzard Ernst: If The Shoe Fits…

By Frank M. Painter|August 24, 2011|Editorial|

Double Standards Exist in Judging Traditional and Alternative Medicine

The Chiro.Org Blog

SOURCE:
British Medical Journal 1998 (Jun 6); 313: 1694

By Hilary Bower

This posting is dedicated to all those evidence-based nay-sayers out there, who love to criticize without contributing anything except negativity.

Dr. Chalmers is the head of the Cochrane group in the UK. He speaks for the REAL evidence people.

Dr Iain Chalmers, the director of the UK Cochrane Centre and a vociferous proponent of systematic reviews, told delegates:

“Critics of complementary medicine often seem to operate a double standard, being far more assiduous in their attempts to outlaw unevaluated complementary medical practices than unevaluated orthodox practices.”

He also said:

“These double standards might be acceptable if orthodox medicine was based solely on practices which had been shown to do more good than harm, and if the mechanisms through which their beneficial elements had their effects were understood, but neither of these conditions applies.”

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Manipulative Therapy: Just a Placebo?

By Frank M. Painter|August 24, 2011|Placebo, Spinal Manipulation|

Manipulative Therapy: Just a Placebo?

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SOURCE: Dynamic Chiropractic

By John J. Triano, DC, PhD

Excerpted from: Triano J: Manipulative Therapy in the Management of Pain.
Clinical Pain Management: A Practical Approach 3rd Edition,
Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Pub, November 2001.

Chiropractic care, particularly spinal manipulation or adjustment, is an increasingly frequent topic in medicine and health care policy circles. As evidence has accumulated to support use of these services, there is frequent reference to a presumption of placebo effect being the mechanism of favorable responses reported in the literature. These charges are easily refuted by specific data. In my experience, a professional head-on response silences these critiques and allows the discussion to refocus on a much more useful topic: appropriate use the paragraphs that follow were crafted as a part of a book chapter on the role of chiropractic manipulation in management of pain the basis often used to set the stage for a claim of a placebo effect. An effective rejoinder follows.

Discourse on manipulation usually raises the question of placebo effect. A frequent observation is that chiropractic patients are more satisfied by their treatment experience than when they are attended by other proaviders. [1, 2]

A number of elements contribute to this popular contentment, including physician-patient interaction. Manipulation treatment often requires several encounters involving physical contact and direct physician attention over a focused time interval. Can these factors be responsible for the perceived clinical benefits?

There are more articles like this @ our:

The Problem with Placebos/Shams Page

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Edzard Ernst ruffles feathers in the UK

By John Wiens DC|August 23, 2011|News|

Professor Edzard Ernst caused an uproar this week when he labelled Prince Charles a ‘snake oil salesman’ for his dandelion and artichoke detox remedy.

Source The Guardian

Edzard Ernst keeps a stack of hate mail as a souvenir. Two months after the world’s first professor of complementary medicine took early retirement from his post at Exeter university after 18 years, the letters are still coming. An email from a chiropractor denouncing him landed in his inbox a few days ago, while Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg tweeted earlier this week that for his latest attack on Prince Charles he should be locked up in the Tower of London.

“I’ve got used to it,” Ernst says. “At first it was a bit depressing. At least the criticism is not racist – ‘that bloody German’, as it would be in France or Austria. I would find that hard to stomach but mostly I can find it amusing. It’s strangely hilarious because the people who attack me are so bonkers.” (more…)

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Utilization, Cost, and Effects of Chiropractic Care on Medicare Program Costs

By Frank M. Painter|August 22, 2011|Medicare|

Utilization, Cost, and Effects of Chiropractic Care on Medicare Program Costs

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An older study of Medicare cost data completed in June (2001 or 2002) by the well-known Washington, DC-based firm Muse & Associates helps demonstrate the cost-saving impact that chiropractic care has on the current Federal Medicare program.

The study, titled “Utilization, Costs, and Effects of Chiropractic Care on Medicare Program Costs“, was commissioned by the ACA and is the first study of its type to compare the global, per capita Medicare expenditures of chiropractic patients to those of non-chiropractic patients receiving care in the federal Medicare program. The study utilizes data obtained from Medicare’s Standard Analytical Files for 1999 — the most recent year that cost data was available for analysis.

The study’s executive summary states:

“The results strongly suggest that chiropractic care significantly reduces per beneficiary costs to the Medicare program. The results also suggest that Chiropractic services could play a role in reducing costs of Medicare reform and/or a new prescription drug benefit.”

The study specifically found that:

Beneficiaries who received chiropractic care had lower average Medicare payments for all Medicare services than those who did not ($4,426 vs. $8,103);

Beneficiaries who received chiropractic care averaged fewer Medicare claims per capita than those who did not; and

Beneficiaries who received chiropractic care had lower average Medicare payments per claim than those who did not.

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