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January 2006, Vol. 16, No. 1
Table of Contents
CBP® Non-Profit Matches Dr. Bill Harris' $25,000 Research Grant • Counter Point Round III • Dr Deed Harrison is the Most Published Chiropractor in the Index Medicus • Flawed Thinking • It's Don's Opinion • JCCA Publishes CBP® Structural Rehab Protocol • More Studies to Confirm the Validity and Reliability of PosturePrint™ • Thriving in the New Health Care Marketplace • Organic Chiropractic • Patient Education • Point Round III • The Purpose Driven Practice • Radiation Hormesis • Research Corner • Subluxation Update • System Failure • Ten New Year's Resolutions for Your Practice • Chiropractic: A Useful Component of Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabiitation • Triano is a Chiropractic Pariah •
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CBP® Non-Profit Matches Dr. Bill Harris' $25,000 Research Grant
During a trip to Adelaide, Australia for a research project supported by CBP® Nonprofit, Dr. Chris Colloca was an invited guest speaker at the Royal Adelaide Hospital’s Spinal Unit in Adelaide on December 15, 2005. Dr. Colloca addressed the hospital’s multi-disciplinary physicians and staff from the departments of orthopaedics, neurology, and general practice among others. Colloca’s lecture entitled, Biomechanical and Neurophysiological Responses of Spinal Manipulation, presented the results of his team’s most recent collaborative chiropractic research being conducted in Australia. This work represents a multi-national and multi-disciplinary effort combining the fields of chiropractic (Colloca, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.; and Dr. Deed Harrison, Elko, NV, U.S.A.), biomechanics (Tony Keller, Ph.D., Tampa, FL, U.S.A.), ortho-paedics (Robert Gunzburg, M.D., Ph.D., Antwerp, Belgium), and pathology (Rob Moore, Ph.D., Adelaide, Australia).
“The nature of medical research generally requires a multi-disciplinary approach and the Department has developed substantial links with many departments and institutions both in Australia and overseas,” said Dr. Rob Moore, Head of the Adelaide Centre for Spinal Research, a division of the Institute for Medical and Veterinary Science (IMVS), who arranged the lecture. “Dr. Colloca’s presentation on our research being conducted here in Adelaide brought chiropractic to the forefront in what has traditionally been a very conservative medical community.”
All members of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS), the team of researchers met to dicuss the feasibility of their collaboration at the 2003 ISSLS Annual Meeting in Vancouver. Colloca and Keller have had a ten-year research tenure together, and over the past five years had teamed up with spine surgeon, Dr. Robert Gunzburg in his hospital’s department of orthopaedics in Antwerp, Belgium to investigate vertebral motions, needle EMG, and spinal nerve root responses during chiropractic adjustments in human subjects. This work has been published in a half a dozen journal articles culminating in the First Prize Scott Haldeman Award for the best research paper at the 2003 World Federation of Chiropractic (Colloca et al., JMPT 2004; 27(1):1-15). Desiring to expand their research to determine the effects of varying adjustment forces and speeds required the use of an animal model. Dr. Gunzburg, having completed a surgical fellowship in Adelaide, Australia, set-up the meeting with well known spinal researcher, Dr. Rob Moore at the IMVS in Adelaide. The research team convened three times in Adelaide in 2004 and 2005 to collect the data for their project.
“We chose Adelaide thanks to the relationships of our team there, but moreover, we’re able to use a validated disc degeneration model that has previously won the Volvo Award,” stated Colloca. “Now, we’ve been able to see how degenerated spines move during adjustments versus normal ones, and how the degeneration affects the nerve and muscle responses,” he said. “This kind of work will go a long way in helping us develop better kinds of adjustments for the differing patient populations that present to our offices, Colloca noted. “Further, we have been able to quantify spinal stiffness among normal and degenerated spines, and further investigate muscular contributions to dynamic spinal stiffness, added team member Dr. Tony Keller. This research has subsequently been presented at several scientific meetings and has been accepted in journal publications (Table 1). “Working together on this project with so many different specialties combined with our unique objectives makes this research especially novel for chiropractic,” Keller continued.
“This research would not be possible without the generous support of CBP® Non-profit, Inc., and especially, Dr. Bill Harris, who has been funding our work for the past decade,” said Colloca. This fall, Dr. Harris through his Foundation for the Advancement of Chiropractic Education (FACE) provided CBP® Non-profit, Inc. with a matching grant challenge of $25,000. CBP® supporters donated well over $50,000 in meeting the challenge and paving the way for Dr. Harris’ $25,000.00 check. Dr. Harris’ FACE has contributed nearly $100,000 to CBP® Non-profit, Inc. over the past four years and has funded numerous other chiropractic projects, benefiting several chiropractic institutions and most recently the revitalization of Life University. “Dr. Harris is the ultimate mentor in chiropractic,” said Dr. Colloca. “It should be the dream of all chiropractors to aspire to the level of philanthropy that Dr. Harris has so selflessly risen to,” he added.
Table 1. Recent publications and conference proceedings resulting from the Australia research collaboration
Publications
Keller TS, Colloca CJ. Dynamic dorsoventral stiffness assessment of the ovine lumbar spine. Journal of Biomechanics 2006; in press.
Colloca CJ, Keller TS, Harrison DE, Moore RJ, Gunzburg R, Harrison DD. Spinal manipulation force and duration affect vertebral movement and neuromuscular responses. Clinical Biomechanics 2006: in press.
Conference Presentations
Colloca CJ, Keller TS, Moore RJ, Gunzburg R, Harrison DE, Harrison DD. Vertebral motion responses are altered by force-time profiles and disc degeneration. 52nd Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, New Orleans, LA, March 5-8, 2006: accepted for presentation.
Colloca CJ, Keller TS, Moore RJ, Gunzburg R, Harrison DE, Harrison DD. Experimentally induced disc degeneration reduces vertebral motions and neuromuscular responses during lumbar spinal manipulation: an animal model. 8th Biennial Congress of the World Federation of Chiropractic, International Conference on Chiropractic Research, Sydney, Australia, June 16-18, 2005:171-3.
Colloca CJ, Keller TS, Harrison DE, Moore RJ, Gunzburg R, Harrison DD. Neuromuscular contributions to dynamic posteroanterior lumbar spinal stiffness. 32nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine, New York, NY, May 10-14, 2005:144.
Keller TS, Colloca CJ, Harrison DE, Moore RJ, Gunzburg R, Harrison DD. Frequency dependence of dynamic posteroanterior spinal stiffness. 32nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine, New York, NY, May 10-14, 2005:168.
Colloca CJ, Keller TS, Harrison DE, Moore RJ, Gunzburg R. Effect of spinal manipulation speed and force on vertebral movement and neuromuscular response. Proceedings of the Association of Chiropractic Colleges XII / Research Agenda Conference X. Las Vegas, NV, March 17-19, 2005. Journal of Chiropractic Education 2005; 19(1):4.
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