manipulation techniques, exercise, and other modalities. Tail wagging the dog We now enter a scenario where we have trained and hired chiropractic re-searchers, but we have not adequately funded them. In turn, they have been left to survive in mainstream academic settings. To compete in this field, work collaboratively, gain grants and pub-lish, they have morphed what they do, and adopted a more medical view of physiology and what a chiropractor can, does, and does not do. There are now few chiropractic researchers in Canada that research traditional chiro-practic. The focus of the research, for the most part, is biomechanics, pain and epidemiology. In turn, the main questions that come from practicing chiropractors are ignored. Why do miracles happen in chiropractic offices? Why is chiropractic unique and distinct from medicine and physiotherapy, and how come patients improve under our care when they have failed in the care provided by the more mainstream health professions? Why do some chiropractors continue to make claims about the remarkable healing that chiropractic can bring, and why do they insist on practicing in a vitalistic way? Is this just ignorance, charlatanism, laziness or a lack of sci-entific credentials, as some have claimed or it there something more? Is this a “something” that should have further scientific research? We need our chiropractic researchers to move be-yond the “low hanging fruit.” Evidence-based chiropractic does not have all the answers. The concepts of subluxation and the neurological component of chiropractic are vitalistic and are not allowed for in the mecha-nistic, or evidence-based views. Chiro-practors in the field have seen many consistent findings that are ignored and bypassed by the researchers. These observations need scientific research to explain why they occur. We need researchers willing to research these findings and unique elements of chiro-practic within health care. Some of the most current science in support of vi-talistic chiropractic is now coming from humanities outside of chiroprac-tic (from fields like physics, epigenetics, and adaptability). This is cutting-edge scientific advancement outside of chi-ropractic, providing necessary scientific foundations for vitalistic chiropractic thoughts. We now have a group of chiropractic researchers in Canada who are no longer working to give scientific sup-port to our profession. Instead, they are trying to morph the definition and scope of our job to fit their research agendas – “the tail wagging the dog.” Unfortunately, if the “evidence-based” splinter groups agenda is successful further medical standards will be forced on the profession, we will lose our unique and distinct status, and chiropractic will become an offshoot of physiotherapy. STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR THE CHIROPRACTIC PRACTICE -mobl-]bm;-v11;vv=Ѵou]-mb-ঞomb|_o|-v|u-|;]b1bvbomĵb;m b;mѴ mѴƔ |o ƐƏ r;u1;m|o=1_buoru-1|ouv-1|-ѴѴ_-;-ub;mrѴ-m=ouv11;vvĺ e;Ѵ-mmbm]oub7;-Ѵru-1ঞ1;bv;-vb=o=oѴѴo|_;;b]_|;;mv|;rŊ0Ŋv|;r exercises in "|u-|;]b1e;Ѳ-mmbm]=ou|_;_buoru-1ࢼ1e;u-1ࢼ1;ĸ $_uo]_7;;Ѵorbm] m] ] -lbvvbomv|-|;l;m|ķo0f;1ঞ;vķ-m7or;u-ঞom-ѴrѴ-mvķ|_bv]b7;bѴѴ_;Ѵro o 1u;-|;-1v|olŊ0bѴ|-1ঞomrѴ-m|o]uoouru-1ঞ1;-m7--bmou]o-Ѵvĺ Ѵvobm1Ѵ7;vv|u-|;]b1rѴ-m;-lrѴ;vķ|;lrѴ-|;vķ-m7;;u1bv;v|o_;ѴrblrѴ;l l; l ;m| ourѴ-mub]_|--ĺ ŪƐƓƐĺƕƏ|;lŲƏƕѵƒƕƔƏѶƔƔ Ѷƕƕ҃Ƒѵƕ҃ƒƓƕƒ annexbookstore.com www.canadianchiropractor.ca October 2019 Canadian Chiropractor 23
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