97% of Chiropractic patients in Denmark reported ‘very high’ or ‘high’ degree of overall satisfaction with Chiropractic care. Patients reported ‘very high’ or ‘high’ levels of confidence that they were receiving the right care (97%), that the visit met their...
Chiropractic adjustments, spinal manipulation, and manual therapy techniques produce results and effects that are clearly observed in our practice. There are dozens of mechanisms to explain these effects. This paper summarizes the reported and investigated mechanisms...
The findings of this scoping review suggest that cervical manipulation may induce a hypotensive response in systolic blood pressure while promoting an overall enhancement in cardiovascular regulation, particularly through an increase in parasympathetic activity....
Initial spinal manipulative therapy was associated with a significant reduction in downstream care escalation encounters among Medicare beneficiaries with new episodes of neck pain. Patients who received spinal manipulation first experienced a 77.8% decrease in...
This study found no incidents of serious adverse events in the short-term following SMT in individuals with prior spine surgery. The most common types of spine surgeries were lumbar fusion (28.7%), cervical fusion (27.8%), and lumbar discectomy with...
The average treatment effect of spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) for reducing pain and disability in patients with spinal pain does not appear to depend on where the SMT was targeted, how the thrust was performed, and in what region it was delivered. The highest...
