• Blum CL

• Chiropractic
• Open Access Document
• Physician Self-Referral
• Wellness Practice, Chiropractic

Narrative: The decisions of two patients each who nominated their own schedule of care to minimise recurrence of a chronic non-musculoskeletal condition raises questions about how the experiences of patient-facing Chiropractors may better be conveyed to the discipline’s researchers and academics.

The matter deserves thought to ascertain the best way to study this phenomenon, using a method which controls for confounders such as placebo or ideomotor effect, regression to the mean, coincidental or casual patient interpretation to treatment response and many others.

Patients with self reported positive unexpected non-musculoskeletal outcomes to Chiropractic care or those patients who are self referring themselves for Chiropractic care for wellness or non-musculoskeletal care, deserve to be considered with a view to determining whether we can develop a prediction instrument for this subset of non-musculoskeletal patients who beneficially respond to chiropractic care.

Author keywords: Chiropractic - Non-musculoskeletal presentations - Self-referral.

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