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FCER News Release For Immediate Release: June 21, 2007 Contact: Tom Blackett, APR 380 Wright Road, Norwalk, IA 50211 USA Phone: 800-622-6309 or 515-981-9888 Fax: 515-981-9427 E-mail: teblackett@fcer.org
A Diversity of Research Singled Out at International Conference Chiropractic research papers covering topics as diverse as disability claims and the predictability of chiropractic success rates were honored as Poster Award Winners at the World Federation of Chiropractic/Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research International Conference on Chiropractic Research (ICCR) held May 15 to 19, 2007 in Vilamoura, Portugal. The award-winning research results including the project abstract, methods, results, discussion, graphics and so on were displayed as large posters at the conference. Winners earned cash awards along with the recognition. The awards were sponsored by the Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER). First place and $500 was awarded to Lise Hestbaek, DC, PhD, Claus Rasmussen. MD, and Charlotte Leboeuf-Yde, DC, MPH, PhD, all from the University of Southern Denmark, in Odense, Denmark. The paper was titled, Economic Compensation – For Better or For Worse? A Five-Year Follow-up Study Investigating the Association between Financial Claims and Staying at Work in Low-Back and Neck Pain Patients with Radiating Pain. Second place and $400 went to Dave Newell, PhD, and Jonathon Field, DC, PgD, from Anglo-European College of Chiropractic in Bournemouth, United Kingdom. Their project covered Initial Exploration of Possible Predictors of Chiropractic Success as Collected During Routine Practice. The third place winner of $300 was Cynthia Peterson, RN, DC, DACBR, MMedED, from Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Her work was titled, Inter- and Intra-Examiner Reliability of Chiropractic Students in Identifying and Classifying Degenerative Marrow (Modic) Changes in Lumbar Spine MRI Scans. Approximately 75 research posters were entered in the competition, which is held every other year at the ICCR. The awards announcement was made by Reed Phillips, DC, PhD, chair of FCER’s research committee and board member, during the closing meeting of the conference on May 19. “The awards were presented based on the quality of the research presented in the poster, the meaningfulness and relevance of the findings of the research, the quality of the poster presentation, and the potential for the work to support additional and advanced work in the same area of study,” Dr. Phillips said. FCER sponsored this research competition for the first time. The conference was held in conjunction with the World Federation of Chiropractic 9th Biennial Congress/European Chiropractic Union 75th Anniversary Convention. FCER is the chiropractic profession’s oldest not-for-profit foundation, serving the profession since 1944. FCER, based in Norwalk, Iowa, has as its mission to “Translate Research into Practice” by granting funds for research and producing practitioner and patient educational materials including teleconferences, CDs, books, and pamphlets. FCER is developing the profession’s only Evidence-Based Chiropractic Resource Center. -30- |
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