tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Commentary on the United Kingdom evidence report about the effectiveness of manual therapies"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Commentary on the United Kingdom evidence report about the effectiveness of manual therapies. | Haldeman and Underwood Chiropractic Osteopathy 2010 18 4 http content 18 1 4 CHIROPRACTIC OSTEOPATHY COMMENTARY Open Access Commentary on the United Kingdom evidence report about the effectiveness of manual therapies Scott Haldeman1 2 3 Martin Underwood33 Abstract This is an accompanying commentary on the article by Gert Bronfort and colleagues about the effectiveness of manual therapy. The two commentaries were provided independently and combined into this single article by the journal editors. Introduction This paper is two commentaries on the article by Gert Bronfort and colleagues about the effectiveness of manual therapy 1 . The first commentary is provided by Professor Scott Haldeman and the second by Professor Martin Underwood. Discussion Evidence informed and guided clinical practice a clinician s point of view by Professor Scott Haldeman Bronfort et al 1 are to be congratulated on the production of this review of the clinical studies and systematic reviews of the scientific literature that have been published on the efficacy of the manual therapies and other treatments commonly offered by chiropractors. Although there are multiple other more detailed systematic reviews on the management of specific disorders I am not aware of any publication that has addressed the broader scope of manual therapy and chiropractic. His document should be of value to all chiropractors medical physicians who work closely with chiropractors as well as payers and health care policy makers. Although it is possible to argue over specific wording and disagree on the quality of some of the quoted studies in this document it is not possible to question the depth and scientific integrity of this work. Although I have been very active as a panellist or chairman of evidence based guidelines for a number of Correspondence Haldemanmd@ t Contributed equally department of Neurology University of California Irvine USA associations the American Academy of .