The McAndrews Leadership Lecture: Origins
Conclusion The American Chiropractic Association has established the McAndrews Leadership Lecture to honor their contributions to the chiropractic profession. (Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities)
Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities - November 18, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Learning From a Lifetime of Leading Effective Change
Conclusion Each of the speakers shared their diverse, unique insights and personal experiences to convey the process and meaning of leadership. (Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities)
Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities - November 22, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Improving Our Nation's Health Care System: Inclusion of Chiropractic in Patient-Centered Medical Homes and Accountable Care Organizations
Conclusion There are many factors involved in the complex topic of chiropractic inclusion in health care models. Major themes resulting from this panel included the importance of building relationships with other professionals, demonstrating data and evidence for what is done in chiropractic practice, improving quality of care, improving health of populations, and reducing costs of health care. (Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities)
Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities - November 22, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Chiropractic Professionalization and Accreditation: An Exploration of the History of Conflict Between Worldviews Through the Lens of Developmental Structuralism
Conclusion A transrational approach, one that includes the partial truths of all perspectives, is a first step to allow for a richer understanding of how the interior worldviews, individual actions, and the exterior forces (legal, economic, political, and educational) brought forth the chiropractic clashes together. Viewing the conflicts within chiropractic from this approach may foster new educational structures to evolve. (Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities)
Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities - November 22, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
The Fountain Head Chiropractic Hospital: the dream that almost came true
Conclusion Dr William Ivens stands as a prime example of a relatively small, but dedicated, number of chiropractors during the mid-20th century who not only believed in, but toiled for, the idea of chiropractic care being given in an in-patient setting. (Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities)
Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities - October 13, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Implications and limitations of appropriateness studies for chiropractic
Conclusion Future assessment of the appropriate role for chiropractic in US health care will raise issues beyond the scope of previous appropriateness studies. Studying the appropriate role for chiropractic will require consideration of the clinical discipline in its entirety, rather than individual consideration of specific interventions. A fair assessment of chiropractic appropriateness will require new evidence and perhaps new research methodologies. (Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities)
Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities - October 13, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
The great subluxation debate: a centrist's perspective
Conclusion The role of subluxation in chiropractic practice, the progression of this debate, and the future of the profession will be directly determined by the role that centrists choose to play. (Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities)
Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities - October 13, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Historical overview and update on subluxation theories
Conclusion The “subluxation concept” currently faces challenges, which are briefly reviewed in this article. The only way forward is to strengthen our efforts to investigate the “subluxation concept” with high-quality scientific studies including animal models and human clinical studies. (Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities)
Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities - October 13, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Constructing a philosophy of chiropractic I: an Integral map of the territory
Conclusion Integral Methodological Pluralism is a viable way to begin constructing a philosophy of chiropractic for the 21st century. (Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities)
Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities - October 13, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Reflecting on 115 years: the chiropractic profession's philosophical path
This article questions if the chiropractic profession is mature and wise enough to be comfortable in being proud of its past but still capable of continued philosophical growth. (Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities)
Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities - October 13, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
A historical lesson from Franciscus Sylvius and Jacobus Sylvius
Conclusion The lesson from this brief review of the 2 Dr Sylviuses may be that a teacher's historical legacy being preserved as an eponym may have more to do with his or her likability than productivity during his or her lifetime. (Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities)
Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities - October 13, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Potential unique causes of burnout for chiropractic professionals
Conclusions There are unique chiropractic-specific occupational characteristics that possibly contribute to burnout in the chiropractic professionals. These findings emphasize the need for assessing and measuring burnout and attrition within the chiropractic profession. (Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities)
Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities - October 13, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
A theoretical basis for maintenance spinal manipulative therapy for the chiropractic profession
Conclusions It is hypothesized that because spinal manipulative therapy brings a joint to the end of the paraphysiological joint space to encourage normal range of motion, routine manipulation of asymptomatic patients may retard the progression of joint degeneration, neuronal changes, changes in muscular strength, and recruitment patterns, which may result in improved function, decreased episodes of injuries, and improved sense of well-being. (Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities)
Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities - October 13, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Chiropractic physicians: toward a select conceptual understanding of bureaucratic structures and functions in the health care institution
Conclusion It is essential that future and current chiropractic physicians be aware of the structural and functional aspects of an organization so that chiropractic and other health care professionals are able to deliver care that involves the ingredients of quality, affordability, availability, accessibility, and continuity for their patients. (Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities)
Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities - October 13, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
Constructing a philosophy of chiropractic: evolving worldviews and postmodern core
Conclusion It is argued that Palmer was one of the first postrational individuals in America and that chiropractic was an attempt at the first postrational health profession. (Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities)
Source: Journal of Chiropractic Humanities - October 13, 2014 Category: Complementary Medicine Source Type: research
