A chapter dedicated to chiropractic treatment is included in a newly released textbook, Surgery for Low Back Pain, published last month by Springer Science+Business Media. Edited by preeminent spine surgeons from Europe, the inclusion of chiropractic methods in clinical decision-making by physicians is testimony to the research strides made over the past few decades and marks another example of the global growth and acceptance of the profession.
The chapter, "The Place of Chiropractic Care in the Treatment of Low Back Pain," was written by Christopher J. Colloca, DC, a Phoenix, Ariz.-based chiropractor with affiliations in the Department of Kinesiology at Arizona State University. Chiropractic education, training and practice are reviewed, followed by a description of the chiropractic patient encounter and a review of the mounting evidence on the subject of spinal manipulation.
Manipulative mechanisms and the positive reports for the clinical effectiveness in spinal manipulation for low back pain have paved the way recently for the inclusion of spinal manipulation into well-established clinical guidelines, including the American Pain Society / American College of Physicians clinical practice guideline. Dr. Colloca's chapter is a culmination of the entire profession's research, in addition to his own focusing on the use of chiropractic adjusting instruments and simultaneous dynamic stiffness assessments to improve objectifying chiropractic treatment. Dr. Colloca has published more than 50 scientific articles in the field.
Source: Springer-Verlag
