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FCER News Release

For Immediate Release: July 16, 2008

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The Status of Chiropractic Pediatric Care: And Investigation of Research and Expert Opinion Supported via a Grant from FCER

The Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER) is pleased and excited to announce the beginning of a new FCER grant project—with Cheryl Hawk, DC, PhD, as the principal investigator—that will focus on the status of research and expert consensus in chiropractic care for the pediatric patient.

Children are an important but little studied group within the chiropractic patient population, with approximately 18% of chiropractic patients being under the age of 18. This group is also increasingly susceptible to back pain and other musculoskeletal and general health concerns. It is therefore imperative that the chiropractic profession examine all of the relevant research available for this patient population to determine the most effective way to approach these young patients. It is also necessary to determine what is not known so that future research can fill the gaps in knowledge.

The expert consensus will provide practitioners with what is currently known—via evidence and practice experience—about the chiropractic care of children. It is essential that children who receive chiropractic care benefit from their chiropractors having access to a document that clearly outlines the best possible chiropractic care of children.

“The chiropractic treatment of children is a subject that lacks much scientific documentation and yet it is the very absence of such documentation that necessitates a ‘first step’ in the process of accumulating such evidence,” said Reed B. Phillips, DC, PhD, FCER Director of International Programs and Research Development.

In addition to Dr. Hawk, the paper will be co-authored by Michael Schneider, DC, PhD(cand); Randy Ferrance, DC, MD; and Ronald Rupert, DC, MS.

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