Chiropractic treatment of chronic ‘whiplash’ injuries

作者: M.N. Woodward , J.C.H. Cook , M.F. Gargan , G.C. Bannister

DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(96)00096-4

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摘要: Forty-three per cent of patients will suffer long-term symptoms following 'whiplash' injury, for which no conventional treatment has proven to be effective. A retrospective study was undertaken determine the effects chiropractic in a group 28 who had been referred with chronic syndrome. The severity patients' assessed before and after using Gargan Bannister (1990) classification. Twenty-six (93 cent) improved (U = 34, P < 0.001). encouraging results from this merit instigation prospective randomized controlled trial compare injury.

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