What decreases low back pain? A qualitative study of patient perspectives“Current literature points to the inefficacy of many of the factors participants reported as helping to reduce the effects of their condition, including the treatments that were most commonly listed…
Assessing attitudes of patient-centred care among students in international chiropractic educational programs: a cross-sectional survey“This is the first international study assessing students’ attitudes of patient-centred care in chiropractic educational programs. We found small but significantly different PPOS scores between chiropractic…
Let’s talk about dementia“As modelled in the Commission, modifiable risk factors for dementia over a lifetime include early-life education, hypertension, hearing impairment, obesity, smoking, depression, physical inactivity, diabetes, and social isolation. Individualising dementia care, providing support for family members, protecting…
A perspective on Chiropractic Councils on Education accreditation standards and processes from the inside: a narrative description of expert opinion, part 1: Themes“An overarching confounder for positive changes in CCE accreditation standards and processes is the inability to clearly define…
Osteoarthritis and intervertebral disc degeneration: Quite different, quite similar“Although embryonic origin and anatomy suggest substantial differences between the two types of joint, some features of cell physiology and extracellular matrix in the nucleus pulposus and articular cartilage share numerous parallels.…
“Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have developed a system that measures a patient’s pain level by analyzing brain activity from a portable neuroimaging device. The system could help doctors diagnose and treat pain in unconscious and noncommunicative patients, which could…
Examining the Motivation of Health Profession Students to Study Human Anatomy“The majority of students viewed anatomy as an important subject; they realized its “Task Value”. Second-year chiropractic students attached more value to anatomy education than the second-year medical students because…
Corticostriatal functional connectivity predicts transition to chronic back pain“The mechanism of brain reorganization in pain chronification is unknown. In a longitudinal brain imaging study, subacute back pain (SBP) patients were followed over the course of 1 year. When pain persisted…
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Increased Fibrogenic Gene Expression in Multifidus Muscles of Patients with Chronic Versus Acute Lumbar Spine Pathology“There is increased fibrogenic gene expression in individuals with chronic disease when compared to acute disease, without significant differences in atrophic, myogenic, adipogenic, or inflammatory…