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Editorial: Choosing the Shape of Things to Come Chiropractic for Animals Persistent Pain; A Review A Chiropractic Conceptual Framework: Pad 1:
Foundations The Fee for an Adjustment-past, Present and Future Peter S. Cowie Commentary: "Doctor...'' Usage, Law and Culture In Memoriam: Virgil Victor Strang ABSTRACTS Stanley lnnes Current research suggests that attentional processing biases may be a contributing factor to pain-related avoidance behaviours in persistent musculoskeletal pain conditions. There is extensive research exploring attentional biases as a mediating factor of avoidance behaviours in anxiety and phobic disorders, Recent chronic low-back pain (CLBP) studies also suggest that anxiety and phobic tendencies may also play a role in avoidance behaviours and significantly contribute toward disability levels. The physical therapists should be able to recognise these factors, assess them, construct appropriate interventions, monitor gains and refer on if these gains are not being achieved. INDEX TERMS: MeSH: PAIN INTRACTABLE; LOWBACK PAIN; NON-MeSH: PERSISTENT PAIN; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR. Chiropr J Aust 1998; 28:83-90. A Chiropractic Conceptual Framework: Part 1: Foundations Andries M. Kleynhans This study progressively explores various aspects of chiropractic as an evolving health care discipline and chiropractors as a cultural group, including: chiropractic's philosophical foundations, identifiable belief system and principles. A continuum is demonstrated between the philosophical foundations, belief system, principles and clinical art of chiropractic and is seen as a validation of the premise that chiropractic has an organised body of knowledge and is well-founded in scholarship, research and application to human problems. A detailed description shows what philosophy in relation to chiropractic is all about and how philosophy articulates with science and art to contribute to a conceptual framework of chiropractic. It is argued that limiting our description of chiropractic to philosophy science and art is unnecessarily restrictive and that a more comprehensive approach is required to explain the multi-faceted mosaic of chiropractic as a health care discipline. This includes sociocultural and psychosocial issues. INDEX TERMS: MeSH: AUSTRALIA; CHIROPRACTIC CULTURE, HEALTH, PHILOSOPHY; SOCIOLOGY: OTHER: BELIEFS; VALUES Chiropr J Aust 1998; 28: 91-109. The Fee for an Adjustment -Past, Present and Future Peter S. Cowie This paper reviews the fees that New South Wales chiropractors have charged for an adjustment since 1962. A relationship is noted between chiropractic fees and the average weekly wage, and a prediction of future fees is made based on this relationship. A formula whereby chiropractors are able to set fees that maintain parity with economic trends is proposed. INDEX TERMS: MeSH: CHIROPRACTIC. OTHER: ADJUSTMENT FEE; WAGE ADJUSTMENT RATIO Chiropr. J Aust 1998; 28:110-3. |
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