Saturday, April 12th, 2008
Just in case you think that the last historical feature on chiropractic care and mental ailments is historically interesting, but currently irrelevant - Here’s some more recent evidence for the role for chiropractic in mental state… A systematic review of psychological outcomes in randomised controlled trials.
The most important risk factors for back and neck pain are psychosocial. Nevertheless, systematic reviews of spinal manipulation have concentrated on pain and spine related disability, and ignored psychological outcomes.
This review assessed whether spinal manipulation was effective in improving psychological outcome… There was some evidence that spinal manipulation improved psychological outcomes compared with verbal interventions.
Read The Full Abstract At Find Health Articles…
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
There have been attempts by some chiropractic skeptics and some so-called expert advisory panels that suggest that chiropractic adjustment of the neck carries some unacceptable risks. These all fail to quote legitimate research. So here’s some real research to clarify the risks…
The objective of this study was to estimate the risk of serious and relatively minor adverse events following chiropractic manipulation of the cervical spine…
They studied treatment outcomes obtained from 19,722 patients. Serious adverse events were defined as “referred to Hospital Accident and Emergency and/or severe onset/worsening of symptoms immediately after treatment and/or resulted in persistent or significant disability/incapacity”; and minor adverse events were defined as a “worsening of presenting symptoms or onset of new symptoms”.
Data were obtained from 28,807 treatment consultations and 50,276 cervical spine manipulations.
There were no reports of serious adverse events…
Minor side effects with a possible neurologic involvement were more common. The highest risk immediately after treatment was fainting, dizziness or light-headedness. Up to 7 days after treatment, these risks were headache, numbness/tingling in upper limbs and fainting/dizziness/light-headedness.
Click Here To Read The Research Abstract At Spine Journal…
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