April 2005, Vol. 15, Iss. 2
Table of Contents
Altered Cervical Lordosis and DJD • Chiropractor Invents Car Seat Headpiece • DACBRs Cause Professional Embarrassment at RAC • Eight Major Aberrant Forms of the Lumbo-Pelvic Spine • European Spine Journal to Publish 6th CBP® Clinical Control Trial • Evidence Based or Not • Glutamate/Aspartame - Pain and Your Brain • Greg Buchanan Donates $30,000 to CBP® Nonprofit • Inappropriate Characterization of CBP® Technique • Missed Appointments and Patient Education • Money, Taxes, Life and Practice • Palmer College Takes Alumni Group to Court • PosturePrint™ Research with ICA • Presenting Defendable Care Options to Patients • Published Papers Near 81 • Resign or be Terminated • Thermography: Renewed Interest • Using Silence to Communicate • Whiplash Injuries: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Medical Management and Prognosis
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PosturePrint™ Research with ICA
by Donald Hirsh, MS, DC & Denise Perron, BS, DC
ICA and Biotonix have combined to study posture and any correlations to health status. Posture will be evaluated with Biotonix’s new PosturePrintTM computerized postural analysis program, while health status will be assessed with SF36, NDI, Oswestry, Rolland-Morris, and VAS scales. The new PosturePrintTM program measures head, rib cage, and pelvic postures in 3-D in terms of rotations and translations on each axis to an accuracy of 1.5 degrees and 1.5 mm from 3 digital photographs of a subject. This excellent accuracy was determined at the University of Quebec at Three Rivers‚ Biomechanics Laboratory. In December 2004, from over 700 photographic evaluations of a mannequin placed in different positions, the PosturePrintTM computer analysis compared extremely well to the pre-determined mannequin positions.
To start this ground-breaking research, a pilot study is planned with 200-300 cases needed. Each of 25 clinics will need to collect data on each of 4-6 patients. We need some PosturePrint™ users to donate their time and evaluations to this exciting project.
After collecting data, data analysis, rough drafts, we plan to publish our pilot study. However, the most important step comes next; we wish to collect data on 2000-5000 subjects and use our pilot study to apply for an NIH grant.We need volunteers to get the PosturePrint™ system up and running in their offices, do a minimum number of examples before going through a quality control procedure at Biotonix to insure proper usage before data is collected. If you wish to help, contact Dr. Denise Perron (perrond@biotonix.com) or Dr. Don Hirsh (donald.hirsh@verizon.net).
