As chiropractors an important and common presentation seen in the clinical setting is cervicogenic headache. The entrenched vascular or psychosomatic models may not be the most common mechanism of headache. Rather a mechanism involving either joint dysfunction and/or soft tissue dysfunction appears to be a likely cause.

In 1992, the High Court of Australia handed down a decision on consent to medical treatment. The case had widespread media publicity, and caused consternation among many members of the medical profession. This article explains the law on consent to treatment by health practitioners and considers the relevance of the law for chiropractors and osteopaths.

BACKGROUND Previous studies have demonstrated that adverse events occur during chiropractic treatment. However, because of these studies design we do not know the frequency and extent of these events when compared to sham treatment. The principal aims of this study are to establish the frequency and severity of adverse effects from short term usual chiropractic treatment of the spine when compa...

BACKGROUND As health care has increased in complexity and health care teams have been offered as a solution, so too is there an increased need for stronger interprofessional collaboration. However the intraprofessional factions that exist within every profession challenge interprofessional communication through contrary paradigms. As a contender in the conservative spinal health care market, fa...

BACKGROUND Adverse events are commonly observed in all parts of health care and have been reported extensively following manual therapy, including chiropractic. The majority of reported adverse events following chiropractic care are mild, transitory and self-limiting. However, little is known about patient filed compensation claims related to the chiropractic consultation process. The aim of th...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to investigate the pattern of self reported symptoms and utilisation of health care services in Norway. DESIGN AND METHODS With data from the cross-sectional Tromsø Study (2007-8), we estimated population proportions reporting symptoms and use of seven different health services. By logistic regression we estimated differences according to age and gender. RESULTS In th...

The prevailing economic doctrine of the day holds that the public always stands to gain from increased competition in the market place. Under this doctrine, enthusiastically embraced by the Federal Trade Commission, sick "consumers" will get well quicker, cheaper, and more conveniently if all kinds of people are allowed to set up shop and start playing doctor.' As a result optometrists compete ...