[DOWNLOAD] "Chiropractic Treatment and the Enhancement of Sport Performance: A Narrative Literature Review." by Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Chiropractic Treatment and the Enhancement of Sport Performance: A Narrative Literature Review.
- Author : Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Health & Fitness,Books,Health, Mind & Body,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 248 KB
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Introduction Can chiropractic care enhance sport performance? Do athletes treated by chiropractors obtain specific performance advantages from specific treatment techniques and/ or objectives? When treating athletes, do chiropractors specifically intend or claim to improve an athlete's performance, or do chiropractors simply offer efficient and effective treatment for injured athletes, thus allowing a return to sport as soon as possible? These questions have been asked infrequently in chiropractic and chiropractic related publications, and even less frequently have answers been postulated. However, it is not uncommon when reviewing chiropractic literature to come across information pertaining to chiropractors treating elite and/ or amateur athletes for the purpose of improving or enhancing athletic performance. (1-13) Such references typically represent the opinion or personal observation of an individual chiropractor treating an individual athlete or group of athletes. (2-7,11,12) Although anecdotal information can be thought provoking, the deleterious consequences of scientifically unsubstantiated claims of chiropractic benefit hurt the profession more often than not. (14) Uncritical empirical evidence and unsubstantiated claims of efficacy are frequently offered in marketing materials, professional and educational web sites, trade journals, and other public forums. (14) As Keating comments, "chiropractors' harshest critics continue to draw upon the chiropractic literature for ammunition to be used against the profession." (14(p.58)) This fact, commonly obscured by defensive comments of inter-professional persecution, would seem to be a direct result of our own profession's actions. Thus, it seems imperative that claims of "athletic performance enhancement" by chiropractic treatment be substantiated or at the very least, clearly delineated according to the standards of evidence-informed health care. It is the aim of this narrative literature review to determine the extent of current information and evidence supporting the use of chiropractic care for the purpose of sport performance enhancement.
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