Adverse effects of spinal manipulation

Adverse effects of spinal manipulation: a systematic review.

OBJECTIVE To identify adverse effects of spinal manipulation. DESIGN Systematic review of papers published since 2001. SETTING Six electronic databases. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Reports of adverse effects published between January 2001 and June 2006. There were no restrictions according to language of publication or research design of the reports. RESULTS The searches identified 32 case re...

Replication of the study 'Adverse effects of spinal manipulation: a systematic review' peter tuchin

A replication of the study ‘Adverse effects of spinal manipulation: a systematic review’

UNLABELLED OBJECTIVE To assess the significance of adverse events after spinal manipulation therapy (SMT) by replicating and critically reviewing a paper commonly cited when reviewing adverse events of SMT as reported by Ernst (J Roy Soc Med 100:330-338, 2007). METHOD Replication of a 2007 Ernst paper to compare the details recorded in this paper to the original source material. Specific i...

Adverse events associated with pediatric spinal manipulation: a systematic review.

BACKGROUND Spinal manipulation is a noninvasive manual procedure applied to specific body tissues with therapeutic intent. Although spinal manipulation is commonly used in children, there is limited understanding of the pediatric risk estimates. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to systematically identify and synthesize available data on adverse events associated with pediatric spinal manipulation. ME...

The immediate effects of spinal thoracic manipulation on respiratory functions

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of thoracic spinal manipulation therapy on respiratory function including forced vital capacity and forced expiratory volume in one second in young healthy individuals. [Subjects and Methods] Thirty young healthy subjects recruited from a local university participated in this study. Subjects were randomly allocated into an exper...