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A united statement of the global chiropractic research community against the pseudoscientific claim that chiropractic care boosts immunity
BACKGROUND: In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) posted reports claiming that chiropractic care can impact the immune system. These claims clash with recommendations from the World Health Organization and World Federation of Chiropractic. We dis...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7197358/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32366319 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12998-020-00312-x |
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author | Côté, Pierre Bussières, André Cassidy, J. David Hartvigsen, Jan Kawchuk, Greg N. Leboeuf-Yde, Charlotte Mior, Silvano Schneider, Michael |
author_facet | Côté, Pierre Bussières, André Cassidy, J. David Hartvigsen, Jan Kawchuk, Greg N. Leboeuf-Yde, Charlotte Mior, Silvano Schneider, Michael |
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description | BACKGROUND: In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) posted reports claiming that chiropractic care can impact the immune system. These claims clash with recommendations from the World Health Organization and World Federation of Chiropractic. We discuss the scientific validity of the claims made in these ICA reports. MAIN BODY: We reviewed the two reports posted by the ICA on their website on March 20 and March 28, 2020. We explored the method used to develop the claim that chiropractic adjustments impact the immune system and discuss the scientific merit of that claim. We provide a response to the ICA reports and explain why this claim lacks scientific credibility and is dangerous to the public. More than 150 researchers from 11 countries reviewed and endorsed our response. CONCLUSION: In their reports, the ICA provided no valid clinical scientific evidence that chiropractic care can impact the immune system. We call on regulatory authorities and professional leaders to take robust political and regulatory action against those claiming that chiropractic adjustments have a clinical impact on the immune system. |
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spelling | pubmed-71973582020-05-05 A united statement of the global chiropractic research community against the pseudoscientific claim that chiropractic care boosts immunity Côté, Pierre Bussières, André Cassidy, J. David Hartvigsen, Jan Kawchuk, Greg N. Leboeuf-Yde, Charlotte Mior, Silvano Schneider, Michael Chiropr Man Therap Commentary BACKGROUND: In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) posted reports claiming that chiropractic care can impact the immune system. These claims clash with recommendations from the World Health Organization and World Federation of Chiropractic. We discuss the scientific validity of the claims made in these ICA reports. MAIN BODY: We reviewed the two reports posted by the ICA on their website on March 20 and March 28, 2020. We explored the method used to develop the claim that chiropractic adjustments impact the immune system and discuss the scientific merit of that claim. We provide a response to the ICA reports and explain why this claim lacks scientific credibility and is dangerous to the public. More than 150 researchers from 11 countries reviewed and endorsed our response. CONCLUSION: In their reports, the ICA provided no valid clinical scientific evidence that chiropractic care can impact the immune system. We call on regulatory authorities and professional leaders to take robust political and regulatory action against those claiming that chiropractic adjustments have a clinical impact on the immune system. BioMed Central 2020-05-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7197358/ /pubmed/32366319 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12998-020-00312-x Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 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 in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Côté, Pierre Bussières, André Cassidy, J. David Hartvigsen, Jan Kawchuk, Greg N. Leboeuf-Yde, Charlotte Mior, Silvano Schneider, Michael A united statement of the global chiropractic research community against the pseudoscientific claim that chiropractic care boosts immunity |
title | A united statement of the global chiropractic research community against the pseudoscientific claim that chiropractic care boosts immunity |
title_full | A united statement of the global chiropractic research community against the pseudoscientific claim that chiropractic care boosts immunity |
title_fullStr | A united statement of the global chiropractic research community against the pseudoscientific claim that chiropractic care boosts immunity |
title_full_unstemmed | A united statement of the global chiropractic research community against the pseudoscientific claim that chiropractic care boosts immunity |
title_short | A united statement of the global chiropractic research community against the pseudoscientific claim that chiropractic care boosts immunity |
title_sort | united statement of the global chiropractic research community against the pseudoscientific claim that chiropractic care boosts immunity |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7197358/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32366319 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12998-020-00312-x |
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