Inflammation Induces Irreversible Biophysical Changes in Isolated Nucleus Pulposus Cells To our knowledge, this is the first study providing evidence that inflammatory stimulation directly alters the mechanobiology of NP cells. The cellular biophysical changes observed in this study are coincident…
Assessing the Change in Attitudes, Knowledge, and Perspectives of Medical Students Towards Chiropractic After an Educational Intervention The attitudes and knowledge of medical students towards chiropractic improved immediately after a 1-hour educational intervention. Formally educating medical students on chiropractic may…
Quantifying Strain in the Vertebral Artery With Simultaneous Motion Analysis of the Head and Neck: A Preliminary Investigation The results of this study suggest that vertebral artery strains during head movements including spinal manipulation, do not exceed published failure strains.…
Peripheral Oxidative Stress Blood Markers in Patients With Chronic Back or Neck Pain Treated With High-Velocity, Low-Amplitude Manipulation High-velocity, low-amplitude spinal manipulation twice weekly for 5 weeks increases the SOD and GPx activities. Previous studies have shown a relationship between…
Medicaid Increases Emergency-Department Use: Evidence From Oregon’s Health Insurance Experiment We found increases in emergency-department visits across a broad range of types of visits, conditions, and subgroups, including increases in visits for conditions that may be most readily treatable in…
Regional Variation in Use of Complementary Health Approaches by U.S. Adults This report presents estimates of the four most commonly used complementary health approaches among adults aged 18 and over in nine geographic regions, using data from the 2012 National…
Lumbopelvic Kinematic Characteristics of Golfers With Limited Hip Rotation The study data suggest that constraints to hip joint internal rotation, along with muscle strength imbalances between the agonist and antagonist muscles and muscle tightness, are associated with substantially greater lumbopelvic…
Foam Rolling as a Recovery Tool After an Intense Bout of Physical Activity The most important findings of the present study were that FR was beneficial in attenuating muscle soreness while improving vertical jump height, muscle activation, and passive and…
Differentiating Intraprofessional Attitudes Toward Paradigms in Health Care Delivery Among Chiropractic Factions: Results From a Randomly Sampled Survey Chiropractors holding unorthodox views may be identified based on response to specific beliefs that appear to align with unorthodox health practices. Despite…
Effect of Osteopathic Manipulative Therapy in the Attentive Performance of Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Participants who received OMTh had greater improvement in Biancardi-Stroppa Test scores than participants who received conventional care only, suggesting that OMTh can potentially increase performances of…