D D Palmer, the founding father of chiropractic, once stated that ‘‘95% of all diseases are caused by displaced vertebrae, the remainder by luxation of other joints’’. This conviction is still shared, at least to some degree, by chiropractors today. It is thus understandable that chiropractors would treat children and adolescents for a range of conditions. A recent survey of UK chiropractors, f...

BACKGROUND Chiropractors, physiotherapists, and osteopaths receive training in the diagnosis and management of musculoskeletal conditions. As a result there is considerable overlap in the types of conditions that are encountered clinically by these practitioners. In Australia, the majority of benefits paid for these services come from the private sector. The purpose of this article is to quanti...

BACKGROUND The chiropractic profession has long considered itself to be a preventive science. Recently the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) has defined a set of standards that must be implemented at all US chiropractic colleges as of January of 2007. These are specific to wellness measures and health promoting efforts that should be performed by chiropractors. This will mandate tradition...

Although there is overwhelming evidence to show that vaccination is a highly effective method of controlling infectious diseases, a vocal element of the chiropractic profession maintains a strongly antivaccination bias. Reasons for this are examined. The basis seems to lie in early chiropractic philosophy, which, eschewing both the germ theory of infectious disease and vaccination, considered d...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to describe the characteristics, practice characteristics, and opinions of chiropractors and the sociodemographic characteristics and the type of complaint of patients presenting to chiropractors in Belgium. METHODS In 2008, all doctors of chiropractic in Belgium (N = 101) were asked to provide personal sociodemographic and practice-specific information ...

Objectives: This paper provides new information that describes chiropractors’ professional identity relative to their concept of subluxation in chiropractic practice and education. Methods: We performed a pragmatic, descriptive, cross-sectional survey of stateboard licensed chiropractors in the US during 2002-03 to assess their attitudes and behaviors about their use of “subluxation” in practic...

OBJECTIVE It is important to understand how chiropractors practice beyond their formal education. The objective of this analysis was to assess the diagnostic and treatment methods used by chiropractors in English-speaking Canadian provinces. METHODS A questionnaire was created that examined practice patterns amongst chiropractors. This was sent by mail to 749 chiropractors, randomly selected ...

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), there were 2,488 practicing chiropractors in Australia in 2006, up from 2073 chiropractors in 2001.1 Of this figure, 67.4% of practitioners were male and approximately 1,346 Abstract: Objectives: The purpose of this study was to describe the chiropractic profession in NSW, in terms of the demographic, educational and socio-demographic back...

BACKGROUND Chronicity amongst musculoskeletal patients remains a considerable burden and predicting outcomes in these patients has proven difficult. Although a large number of studies have investigated a range of predictors of outcome few have looked at the practitioners' ability to discern those that improve from those most likely to fail to improve. This study aimed to investigate the ability...

The administration of routine vaccination against common preventable infectious diseases such as measles, chickenpox and tetanus has become an accepted component of preventive healthcare in the traditional U.S. health care system. Vaccination rates among the general U.S. population have generally been increasing over recent years. However, recent outbreaks of vaccine preventable illnesses such ...