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The “subluxation” issue: an analysis of chiropractic clinic websites
BACKGROUND: Vertebral subluxation theories are controversial in chiropractic. Divisions are evident in the chiropractic community among those who align their practices to subluxation theories and those who do not. This study investigated how many clinics offering chiropractic in the Canadian provinc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6854675/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31754460 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40945-019-0064-5 |
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author | Marcon, Alessandro R. Murdoch, Blake Caulfield, Timothy |
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description | BACKGROUND: Vertebral subluxation theories are controversial in chiropractic. Divisions are evident in the chiropractic community among those who align their practices to subluxation theories and those who do not. This study investigated how many clinics offering chiropractic in the Canadian province of Alberta promote a theory of subluxation, which health ailments or improvements were linked to subluxation, and whether the subluxation discourse was used to promote chiropractic for particular demographics. METHODS: Using the search engine on the Canadian Chiropractic Associations’ website, we made a list of all clinics in Alberta. We then used Google searches to obtain a URL for each clinic with a website, totalling 324 URLs for 369 clinics. We then searched on each website for “subluxation” and performed content analysis on the related content. RESULTS: One hundred twenty-one clinics’ websites (33%) presented a theory of vertebral subluxation. The health ailments and improvements discussed in relation to subluxation were wide-ranging. An observed trend was the marketing of chiropractic for children, which was observed on 29 clinic websites (8%). CONCLUSIONS: Based on the controversy surrounding vertebral subluxation, the substantial number of clinic websites aligning their practice with vertebral subluxation should cause concern for regulatory bodies. |
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spelling | pubmed-68546752019-11-21 The “subluxation” issue: an analysis of chiropractic clinic websites Marcon, Alessandro R. Murdoch, Blake Caulfield, Timothy Arch Physiother Research Article BACKGROUND: Vertebral subluxation theories are controversial in chiropractic. Divisions are evident in the chiropractic community among those who align their practices to subluxation theories and those who do not. This study investigated how many clinics offering chiropractic in the Canadian province of Alberta promote a theory of subluxation, which health ailments or improvements were linked to subluxation, and whether the subluxation discourse was used to promote chiropractic for particular demographics. METHODS: Using the search engine on the Canadian Chiropractic Associations’ website, we made a list of all clinics in Alberta. We then used Google searches to obtain a URL for each clinic with a website, totalling 324 URLs for 369 clinics. We then searched on each website for “subluxation” and performed content analysis on the related content. RESULTS: One hundred twenty-one clinics’ websites (33%) presented a theory of vertebral subluxation. The health ailments and improvements discussed in relation to subluxation were wide-ranging. An observed trend was the marketing of chiropractic for children, which was observed on 29 clinic websites (8%). CONCLUSIONS: Based on the controversy surrounding vertebral subluxation, the substantial number of clinic websites aligning their practice with vertebral subluxation should cause concern for regulatory bodies. BioMed Central 2019-11-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6854675/ /pubmed/31754460 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40945-019-0064-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Marcon, Alessandro R. Murdoch, Blake Caulfield, Timothy The “subluxation” issue: an analysis of chiropractic clinic websites |
title | The “subluxation” issue: an analysis of chiropractic clinic websites |
title_full | The “subluxation” issue: an analysis of chiropractic clinic websites |
title_fullStr | The “subluxation” issue: an analysis of chiropractic clinic websites |
title_full_unstemmed | The “subluxation” issue: an analysis of chiropractic clinic websites |
title_short | The “subluxation” issue: an analysis of chiropractic clinic websites |
title_sort | “subluxation” issue: an analysis of chiropractic clinic websites |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6854675/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31754460 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40945-019-0064-5 |
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