CJA Vol.18 Issue 4All Things Are Difficult Until They Are Easy Shoulder Asymmetry and Handedness in
Adolescents Vacuum Phenomenon Recently Graduated Chiropractors in Australia Part
5: Therapeutic Procedures Conference 88: History Celebrated—History Made An Historical Evaluation of Chiropractic Literature
in Periodicals and Journals 1896-1988 Magazines and Scholarly Journals: What's the
Difference and Who Cares? Peer Review of Manuscripts: Why Bother? Indexing the Chiropractic Profession: Acceptance by
the Orthodox Scientific Community The Role of the Individual Practitioners as a User
and Contributor to the Chiropractic Periodical Literature: The
Go-Between A Cynical Approach to the Chiropractic Periodical
Literature: An Uneasy Marriage A Critique of Chiropractic Periodicals and
Journals Scholarly Journals—Tools for Survival: A
Challenge Friends of Chiropractic—An Occasional Series: Charles A.
Morgan, MP ABSTRACTS Shoulder Asymmetry and Handedness in Adolescents CHARLOTTE LEBOEUF, RICHARD A. AMES, STEPHEN W. GRIFFITH and KRISHNA KESWANI The posture of 144 school children, aged 14-16 was examined. Shoulder height and side of dominant hand were recorded. Eighty-two percent were found to have an elevated shoulder contralateral to the side of the dominant hand. There was a significant association between high shoulder and dominant hand for dextral but not for sinistral children. Only 0.7% of the sample had equal shoulder height. INDEX TERMS: POSTURE; SCOLIOSIS. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1988 Dec;18(4):122-4 LINDSAY J. ROWE The vacuum phenomenon is the appearance of gaseous collection in the degenerating disc, most frequently seen in the lumbar spine. It is associated with degenerative disc disease. INDEX TERMS: RADIOLOGY; DISC DISEASE; VACUUM PHENOMENON. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1988 Dec;18(4):125-7 Recently Graduated Chiropractors in Australia Part 5: Therapeutic Procedures MICHAEL N. WEBB and CHARLOTTE LEBOEUF A survey of therapeutic procedures performed by recently graduated chiropractors in Australia revealed that most respondents saw between 3 and 6 patients per hour. The most commonly used techniques were the diversified and Gonstead techniques (87% and 81%). The ten most- and least-frequently utilised adjustive procedures for these two approaches were identified. The majority of respondents reported the use of some adjunctive therapies, with ice packs, vitamins, orthopaedic supports and mineral supplementation being the four most common. INDEX TERMS: CHIROPRACTIC; AUSTRALIA; THERAPEUTICS. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1988 Dec;18(4):128-30 An Historical Evaluation of Chiropractic Literature in Periodicals and Journals 1896-1988 RUSSELL W. GIBBONS D.D. Palmer published his first “broadsheet” called The Chiropractor in the last year of the 19th century. In 1904 he began publication of a regular journal, which eventually became the monthly Chiropractor and was to last for 57 years, the longest of any publication in the history of the profession. Soon journalistic competitors and imitators occupied the landscape of the emerging healing art. Initially, the editorial emphasis was on propaganda and the struggle for survival that occupied much of the time of pioneer chiropractors and their institutions. In time clinical literature would make its appearance, but without the formal style and referencing of the medical and biological communities. Rival schools and organisations gave birth to most of the journals, but only half a dozen would survive the first half century of chiropractic with continuous circulation. This study explores the origins of chiropractic journalism and the evolution of both editorial and clinical standards. It also reviews recent developments in both clinical journals and general readership periodicals that have emerged in chiropractic in this past decade. INDEX TERMS: HISTORY OF MEDICINE 19TH CENTURY; CHIROPRACTIC; JOURNALISM; SCIENTIFIC WRITING. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1988 Dec;18(4):134-6 Magazines and Scholarly Journals: What's the Difference and Who Cares? MARY ANN CHANCE and ROLF E. PETERS Innovative techniques and original concepts first published in the chiropractic literature have generally been ignored or disparaged by medicine and the scientific community. When chiropractic ideas and methods are adopted by others, the source is rarely acknowledged. This has perhaps been due less to bias against chiropractic than to deficiencies in our own research and standards of writing and publishing. This paper outlines the basic requirements and structure of a scientific paper and proposes a model for enhancing the stature of chiropractic through rationalisation of our professional journals. INDEX TERMS: SCIENTIFIC WRITING; CHIROPRACTIC; JOURNALISM. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1988 Dec;18(4):137-9 Peer Review of Manuscripts: Why Bother? PHILIP S. BOLTON Peer review is “one of the glories of science” and is now a prerequisite for publication of a manuscript in some journals published by the chiropractic profession. The present system of peer review is poorly understood by many authors and is expensive in terms of time and money. It is considered by some to be detrimental to the patient in certain instances, and some of the most flawed manuscripts will ultimately be published somewhere. However, there are many benefits from the peer review system. The constructive “critical” evaluation of a manuscript is the principal benefit of peer review. It assist the author to assure that the appropriate protocol and evidence were employed to justify the findings or proposals presented in the manuscript. Further, it assist to reduce the number of gross errors, enforces a standard of norms and stimulates better quality work and writing. The present peer review system has distinct advantages for the individual author. The same advantages can be extended to the chiropractic profession and thereby allow it to participate in the credible exchange of knowledge with both the scientific and general community. INDEX TERMS: INFORMATION SCIENCES; SCIENTIFIC WRITING; PEER REVIEW. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1988 Dec;18(4):140-1 Indexing the Chiropractic Profession: Acceptance by the Orthodox Scientific Community DANA J. LAWRENCE Indexing scientific information is the means whereby important information is placed onto various computerised databases for ease of dissemination, peer review and documentation. Major world-wide indexing agencies include Index Medicus (National Library of Medicine), Current Contents (Institute for Scientific Information), Biosis (Biosciences Information Agency) and the Soviet State Academy of Science. Indexing is critically important for documenting scientific information, because it allows work to be reviewed around the world shortly after that work is published, and it prevents research from being redundant and repetitive. Thus, indexing research is a high priority for the chiropractic profession, because it affords a means to allow our work to be reviewed by an interested party. Since non-indexed work cannot be found on the various databases, in the eyes of the scientific community that work does not exist; there is no mechanism by which an interested party may learn about it. Indexing status is gained after a period of review in which all aspects of the journal's operation are reviewed, including the quality of the papers published, the make-up of the editorial board, the qualifications of the editor, the manuscript processing procedures and other components. Generally, this review process takes about two years before a decision is rendered. Only one chiropractic journal has, at the time of this writing, gained full indexing status with the above-named agencies, though at least one other is in the process of review. Indexing benefits the entire profession by documenting the foundations of the chiropractic field. INDEX TERMS: SCIENTIFIC WRITING; CHIROPRACTIC; INDEXATION; DATA RETRIEVAL; INDEX MEDICUS. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1988 Dec;18(4):142-4 RUPERT D. MOLLOY This paper examines some issues concerning the relationship between the individual chiropractor and the periodical literature. It also examines the relationship that exists between the two and the wider scientific community. It shows that at best the association is tenuous and suggests some possibilities to redress the dilemma. INDEX TERMS: SCIENTIFIC WRITING; CHIROPRACTIC. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1988 Dec;18(4):145-6 A Cynical Approach to the Chiropractic Periodical Literature: An Uneasy Marriage SIMON M. LEYSON This paper will address the issues confronting both the consumer and producer of the periodical literature. Perhaps the lack of published material reflects an unwillingness of individual practitioners and their professional bodies to document their own history and progress. The survivalist psyche that has pervaded the chiropractic profession could be blamed for not allowing such luxuries. A cynical approach may allow us to highlight these issues and perhaps to break the mould creatively. INDEX TERMS: SCIENTIFIC WRITING; CHIROPRACTIC. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1988; 18:147-8. A Critique of Chiropractic Periodicals and Journals RUSSELL W. GIBBONS Professionalism has come with some difficulty to chiropractic journalism. For obvious reasons, the early profession could not afford the services of skilled editorial writers, and the conflict between trained editors and those who could employ them usually made their tenure of short duration. The early journals combined internal news with the struggle for survival, with occasional clinical contributions. It was not until the Journal of Clinical Chiropractic in the 1960s and later the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics that elements of style, criteria for references and guidelines for contributors were established. The evolution of literature toward acceptability in the health care and biological communities became an undertaking with international aspects for chiropractic in the 1970-80 decades. A summary of these efforts is presented. INDEX TERMS: SCIENTIFIC WRITING; CHIROPRACTIC JOURNALISM; CITATIONS. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1988 Dec;18(4):149-51 Scholarly Journals-Tools for Survival ROLF E. PETERS and MARY ANN CHANCE Credible publication like valid research, is an essential survival tool for any profession, and in its struggle for political legitimation, chiropractic has lagged seriously behind in both areas. It is now urgent that we address the question of establishing and consolidating an appropriate niche for chiropractic within the health sciences in a manner to which the scientific community and an informed public will respond positively. It is also important that steps be taken immediately to regain ground lost to other professions in the health care delivery system who have researched spinal manipulative therapy and published their findings in scientifically acceptable journals, which the chiropractors who pioneered the work have failed to do in the past. It is the duty of every chiropractic graduate to advance the science of chiropractic, and the responsibility of the profession collectively to develop suitable protocols and media for public documentation of chiropractic research, clinical innovation, case studies, history and other scholarly works. INDEX TERMS: SCIENTIFIC WRITING; CHIROPRACTIC. J Aust Chiropr Assoc 1988 Dec;18(4) |
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