The Chiropractic COVID-19 Global Impact Survey Is Ready to Make an Impact
DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE
Editor's Note: This article was submitted to raise awareness about practitioner participation in the upcoming Chiropractic COVID-19 Global Impact Survey research study. The article was submitted by the study chief-investigator, Dr. Craig Moore, who is a practicing chiropractor with a PhD in public health. Dr. Moore is a sessional lecturer at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, who has a strong research interest in epidemiology and disease prevention. A link to the survey will be sent via email as soon as it is available, and this article (including the link) will be featured in our next (November) print and digital issue, as well as all weekly e-newsletters promoting the November issue.
Subscribers of Dynamic Chiropractic will soon be invited to participate in an international survey of chiropractors being conducted in countries across five continents, including Australia, Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong (China), Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a highly transmissible disease with approximately 30 million confirmed cases and 1 million related deaths worldwide. While chiropractors in the United States have been essential health care workers addressing neuromusculoskeletal disorders during this challenging time, the impact and response by U.S. DCs to the pandemic is underresearched.
With over 100,000 practising chiropractors worldwide, this is the first international-based study that seeks to provide important insights into the impacts and changes to the health care delivered by chiropractors during COVID-19. Your participation will give you the chance to share your own experience and contribute new knowledge about the personal and professional impact of this historic pandemic.
This research project is being conducted by a large international team of chiropractic researchers including researchers from the U.S. Findings from this study may contribute vital knowledge that is needed to help inform future public health procedures within chiropractic settings that may benefit both you and your community.
You will soon receive a link to the online survey distributed via Dynamic Chiropractic, which supports practitioner participation in this study. If you are interested in more information, please send an email to the U.S. research representative on the study team, Dr. Katie Pohlman, at KPohlman@parker.edu.
Thank you in advance for your valued participation in this important upcoming global COVID-19 study.
Because they have yet to pass national legislation protecting the chiropractic profession, Japanese DCs are in a similar situation that U.S. DCs faced. We were fortunate enough to be able to pass chiropractic licensure state by state. The DCs in Japan must accomplish this nationally, which has proved to be an extremely difficult task. And in spite of their efforts, Japanese DCs are currently faced with two chiropractic professions.
This article focuses on nine severe injuries that are generally not diagnosable until the third to fourth week following the date of injury, including how to diagnose these severe injuries. The discovery of any of these injuries early can make a significant difference in the case outcome.
There has long been an attempt by those who are not legitimate doctors of chiropractic to usurp the title of chiropractor from those who have earned their degree from an accredited chiropractic program. This generally happens in countries where the local doctors of chiropractic have yet to pass legislation requiring a degree from an accredited institution. The result is essentially two chiropractic professions. Nowhere is this danger more pronounced than in Japan.
