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The first-ever practice guidelines by and for the profession! These proceedings are the result of the landmark Mercy Center Consensus Conference in which chiropractic practitioners in the academic, clinical, political, and regulatory sectors met to reach agreement on standards of practice, producing guidelines for practice that provide a major step toward addressing the needs of the patient and assuring the quality and acceptance of chiropractic health services. This publication represents the greatest consensus ever achieved by the profession and is a must have for every chiropractic student and practitioner.

This concise volume highlights effective evaluation and management practices in chiropractic care. This volume contains clinical information on a variety of conditions, including fatigue, hypertension, fever, cough, headache, and low back pain. Best Practices provides treatment information and algorithms you needed to optimize patient care.

First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Results of a project to inform the forest products industry and related agencies about the research achievements of and the services provided by the Forest Products Program. This report details activities of the program for the year, objectives for 1989/90, and the technical leadership and business development provided. During the year, scientific papers were prepared on the ARC 4' x 8' press, binder testing, codes and standards for foreign markets, and the development of the testing laboratory and the panel pilot plant.

Thorough analysis of technology assessment with resource list of government, association, periodical, database and server sources. Reprints from five years of Topics in Clinical Chiropractic updated with recent information Technical presentation

Three noted chiropractic educators from contending camps achieve surprising concord on many issues. This book is an omen of chiropractic's maturation and forthcoming integration with the larger health care community.

No other book offers a complete guide to chiropractic adjustive techniques! Chiropractic Technique, 3rd Edition makes it easy to understand essential procedures and provides a rationale for their use. Written by Thomas F. Bergmann, DC, FICC, and David H. Peterson, DC, and backed by the latest research studies, this bestseller describes the basic principles needed to evaluate, select, and apply specific adjustive procedures. With a review of chiropractic history, detailed descriptions of joint examination and adjustive techniques for the spine, pelvis, and extremities, and a companion Evolve website with how-to videos, this book is a must-have reference for students and clinicians. - Offers over 700 photos and line drawings depicting the correct way to set up and perform adjustive procedures, clarifying concepts, and showing important spinal and muscle anatomy. - Includes up-to-date research studies and methods for validating manual therapy. - Discusses mechanical principles so you can determine not only which adjustive procedure to use and when, but also why you should choose one approach over another. - Organizes content thematically with a discussion of practical anatomy, kinematics, evaluation, and technique for each joint. - Covers anatomy and biomechanics in detail, along with adjustive techniques for the spine, extraspinal techniques, and additional techniques for special populations, helping you fully prepare for board examinations. - Covers the manipulable lesion as a basis for treating disorders with manual therapy, including chiropractic techniques. - Includes content on low-force techniques to help you treat elderly patients and patients who are in acute pain. - Includes useful appendices with clinical information as well as interesting historical information, including a feature on practitioners who developed specific techniques. - NEW Evolve website with video clips of the author performing all the adjustive procedures in the book. - Updated and expanded content covers new information on joint anatomy and assessment including Newton's laws and fibrocartilage, joint malposition, joint subluxation, history of subluxation/dysfunction, and sacroiliac articulation. - A procedure index printed on the inside of the front cover makes it easier to find specific procedures.

Healthcare decision makers in search of reliable information that compares health interventions increasingly turn to systematic reviews for the best summary of the evidence. Systematic reviews identify, select, assess, and synthesize the findings of similar but separate studies, and can help clarify what is known and not known about the potential benefits and harms of drugs, devices, and other healthcare services. Systematic reviews can be helpful for clinicians who want to integrate research findings into their daily practices, for patients to make well-informed choices about their own care, for professional medical societies and other organizations that develop clinical practice guidelines. Too often systematic reviews are of uncertain or poor quality. There are no universally accepted standards for developing systematic reviews leading to variability in how conflicts of interest and biases are handled, how evidence is appraised, and the overall scientific rigor of the process. In Finding What Works in Health Care the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends 21 standards for developing high-quality systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research. The standards address the entire systematic review process from the initial steps of formulating the topic and building the review team to producing a detailed final report that synthesizes what the evidence shows and where knowledge gaps remain. Finding What Works in Health Care also proposes a framework for improving the quality of the science underpinning systematic reviews. This book will serve as a vital resource for both sponsors and producers of systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research.