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Author Archives: Dr. Shawn Thistle

What’s the harm? Incidence of adverse events related to chiropractic & physiotherapy treatment…

Chiropractor Adjusting His Male Patient's Lower Back In His Office

This week’ Research Review discusses a very important topic – patient safety, and what our profession is doing about investigating and reporting adverse events associated with chiropractic and physiotherapy treatments […]

Medications for lumbosacral radiculopathy – what does the evidence say?

Elderly woman feels back pain, massaging aching muscles

Globally, the number of years lived with disability due to low back pain increased by 52.7% between 1990 and 2015. In primary care offices, 38% of patients seek care for […]

Effectiveness of Postsurgical Rehabilitation Following Lumbar Disc Herniation Surgery

Medical Team Performing Surgical Operation in Modern Operating Room

Lumbar disc herniation (LDH) with radiculopathy is a common condition we encounter in clinical practice, with an annual prevalence of about 2% in the general population. Normally, the prognosis is […]

Influence of Active, Passive & Manual Therapy Interventions for Low Back Pain on Opioid Prescription and Health Care Utilization

woman with lower back pain

Should we combine active and passive interventions for low back pain? Is spinal manipulation an active or passive therapy, or both? A variety of treatments offered by chiropractors and physical […]

Chiropractic care reduces tramadol prescriptions for radicular low back pain!

Close up of man taking in pill and another hand holding a glass of clean water

A growing body of evidence suggests seeing a chiropractor can help keep radicular back pain patients off prescription drugs like benzodiazepines, gabapentin, opioids in general and now, tramadol (a synthetic […]