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January 2007, Vol. 17, No. 1
Table of Contents
• Are You Busy Selling Chiropractic or Correcting Subluxations
• BJ's House Needs Repairs • Another Look At Cell Phones
• Chiropractic R.I.P. • Colloca and CBP Nonprofit Study Wins Best Paper Award • Help Us Locate Allen Botnick • Letters to the Editor
• Michigan Chiropractic Society Sees Evidence of Growing Need For Chiropractic • Meeting With Success • A New Look At Mirror Image Exercise • Mourning The Loss Of Tony Keller • Past Present and Future In Chiropractic • Posture Study By UQTR Researchers and CBP® Published by JCO • PostureRay™, PosturePrint™ Helping Doctors Help Patients
• The Importance of A Clinically Relevant Presentation of Findings
• It's Pauls Opinion • Research Corner • Scoliosis: SpineCor Brace
• Triano and CCGPP's Will Give You Six Visits
• Clinical Indications for Videoflouroscopy
• Western States Chiropractic College Receives NIH Grant •
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Colloca and CBP® Nonprofit Study Wins Best Paper Award
At International Symposium
Phoenix, Arizona based chiropractor, Dr. Chris Colloca and his research team (Deed Harrison, DC, Tony Keller, PhD, Robert Gunzburg, MD, PhD, Rob Moore, PhD) were awarded the prize for the Best Paper at the Fourth International Symposium on the Philosophy, Art and Science of Chiropractic, hosted by the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) in Madrid, Spain, October 6-8, 2006. The $500.00 cash award was presented to Dr. Colloca by the ICA president, Dr. John Maltby during the Gala Banquet held at the event.
The winning paper was entitled, Altered Spinal Motion Patterns and Neurophysiological Responses Associated With Intervertebral Disc Degeneration During Chiropractic Adjustments. The research presented data demonstrating differences in vertebral motions among different forces and speeds, and the beneficial effects of faster (Impulsive) adjustments in creating more vertebral motions among those with degenerated discs. Interestingly, the research also clearly demonstrated the decreased stabilizing ability of the spinal musculature in subjects with degenerated discs.
The research represents a rare multi-disciplinary collaboration in affiliation with the Adelaide Center for Spinal Research in Adelaide, South Australia combining talents from chiropractic (Colloca and Dr. Deed Harrison) with some of the world’s leading spine researchers including Dr. Tony Keller, (who, before his death, was Director of the Musculoskeletal Research Laboratory, a Division of the Florida Orthopaedic Institute in Tampa, FL) with experts in orthopaedic surgery and pathology, co-authors Robert Gunzburg, M.D., Ph.D., and Robert Moore, Ph.D. The research team has combined on a number of studies published in a variety of scientific journals including the Chiropractic & Osteopathy, Clinical Biomechanics, European Spine Journal, Journal of Biomechanics, Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, and Spine among others.
This research was supported by Chiropractic Biophysics Non-profit, Inc., through generous grants from its members and its largest individual supporter, Dr. William Harris’ Foundation for the Advancement of Chiropractic Education, who has selflessly donated $25,000 per year towards the research.
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