A Comparison of Active and Simulated Chiropractic Manipulation as Adjunctive Treatment for Childhood Asthma

Abstract

In children with mild or moderate asthma, the addition of chiropractic spinal manipulation to usual medical care provided no benefit.

Models of headache and their implications for treatment using manual therapies

“…Research articles studying specific conditions responding to manual therapy have documented improvement relative to specific conditions. The improvement is often discounted as placebo affect (2,33). Such assessment discounts the value of human interaction within the therapeutic relationship.…”

Does manual therapy provide additional benefit to breathing retraining in the management of dysfunctional breathing? A randomised controlled trial

“…In addition, there was no evidence of statistical adjustment for baseline inequalities, with the control group demonstrating more severe airflow obstruction. In a well-designed RCT, Balon et al (1998) [38] investigated the effects of chiropractic SMT versus that chiropractic SMT provided no additional benefit to usual medical care in children with mild or moderate asthma. Indeed, this paper accounts for more than 50% of the subjects (1 of 3 papers) considered in a recent Cochrane systematic review [19], which concluded "there is insufficient evidence to support the use of manual therapies for patients with asthma".…”

Chiropractic manipulation: Reasons for concern?

“…Despite the increasing number of randomized controlled trials focused on its efficacy for the treatment of a multitude of diseases [11][12][13][14][15][16], the benefits of chiropractics are still not well established [9]. On the other hand, there is only one controlled trial published concerning the safety profile [17].…”