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Advances in musculoskeletal health: A focus on practice, prevention, safety, and cost

Monday, November 4, 2013: 2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Oral
This contributed session offers a variety of presentations regarding musculoskeletal health issues related to practice, prevention, safety, and cost. Topics include management costs of neck pain, risk of stroke following chiropractic spinal manipulation, dose-response of spinal manipulation for chronic back pain, association of smoking with back pain, knee osteoarthritis in religious groups, and an overview of benign joint hypermobility syndrome. These presentations may be of interest to those involved in economic analysis of healthcare, risk reduction, primary care, conservative care, integrative, complementary, or alternative care, manual or physical therapy, and those in the ambulatory health care environment who specialize in musculoskeletal health.
Session Objectives: Discuss musculoskeletal health issues related to practice, prevention, safety, and cost.
Moderator:
Michael Clay, DC, MPH

2:30pm
Comparison of management costs of neck pain according to pattern of care: The North Carolina state health plan for teachers and state employees, 2000-2009   
Eric L. Hurwitz, DC, PhD and Dongmei Li, PhD
2:40pm
Likelihood of vertebrobasilar stroke following chiropractic spinal manipulation in US adults aged 65-99 with neck pain   
James Whedon, DC, MS, Yunjie Song, PhD and Jonathan Lurie, MD, MS
2:50pm
Determinants of responders in a dose-response trial of spinal manipulation for the care of chronic low back pain   
Darcy Vavrek, ND, MS, Mitchell Haas, DC, MA, David Peterson, DC, Moni Blazej Neradilek, MS and Nayak Polissar, PhD
     
3:00pm
Do people who smoke have more back pain?   
Bart Green, DC, MSEd and Claire Johnson, DC, MSEd, PhD
3:10pm
Knee pain: Osteoarthritis in some religious sectors due to biomechanical postural loading. a literature review   
Karol A. Donaubauer, BA, DC, CCSP
     
  
3:20pm
Benign joint hypermobility syndrome (BJHS): A public health clinical brief   
Michael Ramcharan, DC, MPH, EdD and Lyndsay Andrews, R.T. (R) (CT)
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Chiropractic Health Care
Endorsed by: Aging & Public Health, Medical Care, Oral Health, Public Health Nursing, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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