Clinical trials: Chiropractic
Herniated Disc, Lower Back Pain
Chiropractic Prone Distraction for Lower Back Pain
Back pain is a major cause of disability in the United States. The lifetime prevalence of low back pain is estimated at 60-90%. Back pain has conservatively been estimated to involve total direct and indirect costs of over $25…
- Conditions
- Herniated Disc, Lower Back Pain, Sciatica
- Trial name
- NCT00269503
- Testing
- Prone Distraction, Side-Posture Manipulation, Side-Posture Manipulation & Prone Distraction
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- Samueli Institute for Information Biology
Vertebral Artery Dissection, Traumatic, Neck Pain
Effects of Spinal Manipulation on Vertebrobasilar and Internal Carotis Arteries in Healthy Population
After lumbar pain, neck pain is the most common cause of patients needing chiropractic care; the second most common cause of spinal manipulation use (1).
- Trial name
- NCT03435159
- Testing
- Doppler Ultrasonography, Manual Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation, Instrumental Chiropractic Spinal Manipulation
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bahçeşehir University
Hip Osteoarthritis
Effects of Chiropractic Care in Patients With Hip Osteoarthritis
The purpose of the study is to explore the short term effects of chiropractic care on pain and function in patients with hip osteoarthritis.
- Trial name
- NCT01025661
- Testing
- Chiropractic care
- Where
- Sweden
- Volunteers
- 14 people
- Sponsor
- Scandinavian College of Chiropractic
Low Back Pain
Education/Exercise and Chiropractic for Chronic Back Pain
As a needed first step prior to a planned full-scale RCT, in order to assess the feasibility of the RCT and refine its design and protocols, we will perform a pilot study with the following objectives:1.To assess whether enough…
- Trial name
- NCT00561652
- Testing
- Education & Exercise, Chiropractic treatment (plus Education & Exercise)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- US Department of Veterans Affairs
Low Back Pain
Integrated Chiropractic and Acupuncture Treatment for Low Back Pain
This study is being conducted to compare the effectiveness of integrated chiropractic and acupuncture care for the management of low back pain.
- Trial name
- NCT01357343
- Testing
- Chiropractic, Acupuncture
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 103 people
- Sponsor
- Southern California University of Health Sciences
Low Back Pain
measurINg forceS durInG cHiropractic Treatment
The INSIGHT pilot study will measure forces applied by a doctor of chiropractic (DC) during the delivery of a specific, manually based chiropractic treatment for participants with low back pain.
- Trial name
- INSIGHT (NCT02409797)
- Testing
- Flexion-Distraction (non-thrust) spinal manipulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people
- Sponsor
- Palmer College of Chiropractic
Stress
Stress, EEG, ECG, and Chiropractic
The Life University Center for Chiropractic Research is conducting a study to better understand the relationship between subjective stress measures and brain patterns during resting state and an auditory oddball task.
- Trial name
- BLI (NCT05245409)
- Testing
- Chiropractic adjustment using an activator
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Life University
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
Effect of Manual Medicine or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy With Chronic Uncontrolled Diabetes
Effects of manual medicine or cognitive behavioral therapy with chronic uncontrolled diabetes within a shared primary care visit.
- Trial name
- NCT02971865
- Testing
- CBT/CMT, Control group traditional primary care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 72 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Community Wellness Center, West Linn, OR
Stroke
Stroke Patients Receiving Chiropractic Care Post-rehabilitation
The Life University Center for Chiropractic Research is conducting a research study to better understand how 12-weeks of chiropractic care differentially affects the post-rehabilitation brain electrical patterns and body movement…
- Trial name
- NCT05027178
- Testing
- Chiropractic Care
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 6 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Life University
Neck Pain
Testing the Feasibility of Intervening to Optimize Chiropractic Care for Adults With Neck Pain Disorders
To assess the feasibility of conducting a larger cluster randomized controlled trial to facilitate the effectiveness of a complex Knowledge Translation (KT) intervention, i.e.
- Trial name
- NCT02483091
- Testing
- Multifaceted KT intervention
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 32 people
- Sponsor
- McGill University
Low Back Pain, Nutrition Poor
Nutrient Nutritional Advise for Low Back Pain Patients Seeking Chiropractic Care
The nutritional intervention will reduce LBP and cause 10% weight loss.
- Trial name
- NCT04134013
- Testing
- Combination: Nutrition AND Chiropractic Adjustment, Chiropractic Adjustment: Spinal Manipulation Therapy
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 9 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Parker University
Chronic Pain Syndrome
PET Imaging of Chronic Pain Syndromes
Central nervous system (CNS) changes associated with pain have been difficult to measure until the development of functional neuroimaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET).
- Trial name
- NCT03233594
- Testing
- Chiropractic Group, Healthy Control Group
- Where
- 2 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 32 people
- Sponsor
- Thomas Jefferson University
Back Pain
Descriptive Analysis: STarT Back Screening Tool: Cross-sectional Survey & Chart Review
Keele STarT Back SCreening Tool (KSB) is a practical and validated bio-psychosocial questionnaire that stratifies lower back pain patients into 3 risk groups (low, medium, high), with suggested treatment guidelines for each…
- Trial name
- STarT Back (NCT03848988)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 87 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Parker University
Cerebral Palsy
Effects of Intensive Chiropractic Care to Usual Care for Children With Cerebral Palsy.
To determine the effects of chiropractic care on spasticity, functional outcomes and quality of life in spastic cerebral Palsy children.
- Trial name
- NCT05315102
- Testing
- Chiropractic Care, Physical therapy intervention
- Where
- Pakistan
- Volunteers
- 39 people
- Sponsor
- Riphah International University
Autonomic Nervous System
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Responses to Specific Chiropractic Adjustments
A study to determine if a chiropractic adjustment in the cervical spine will effect the parasympathetics and a chiropractic adjustment in the thoracic spine will effect the sympathetics.
- Trial name
- NCT00632164
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 40 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic
Chronic Headache
Chiropractic Treatment for Headache Among Children Aged 7-14
The primary aim of the study is to assess the effectiveness of chiropractic manipulation treatment versus placebo treatment in children suffering from headache for more than six months.
- Trial name
- NCT02684916
- Testing
- Chiropractic treatment
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 200 people
- Sponsor
- Nordic Institute of Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics
Osteoarthritis, Hip
Conservative Treatment for Hip Osteoarthritis
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effect of manual treatment and a patient education programme for patients without indication for hip surgery.
- Trial name
- COHART (NCT01039337)
- Testing
- Hip School, Hip School and Manual Treatment, Minimal control intervention
- Where
- Denmark
- Volunteers
- 118 people
- Sponsor
- Nordic Institute of Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics
Pain, Back, Pregnancy Related
Ciropractic Care and Pregnant Women
Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of Chiropractic care on pain, quality of life and sleep in pregnant women compared to a control group. The study is designed as non-randomized controlled trial.
- Conditions
- Pain, Back, Pregnancy Related, Sleep, Quality of Life
- Trial name
- ChiroPW (NCT04919278)
- Testing
- Chiropractic adjustments
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 42 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Barcelona College of Chiropractic
Athletic Performance, Neuromuscular Adaptations
Squat Jump Performance and Chiropractic Ankle Manipulation
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if chiropractic ankle manipulation can improve squat jump performance. It will also learn about the relationship among chiropractic ankle manipulation, ankle range of motion, and squat…
- Conditions
- Athletic Performance, Neuromuscular Adaptations, Lower Limb, Chiropractic Manipulation
- Trial name
- NCT07641621
- Testing
- Manual Therapy Procedure: Chiropractic Ankle Manipulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Northeast College of Health Sciences
Recurrent Low Back Pain
B Vitamin Supplementation to Chiropractic Management of Chronic LBP: Pilot Clinical Trial (VCLBP)
The purpose of this investigation is to assess the effects of a combination of B vitamins (B6 [pyridoxine],, B9 [folate], and B12 [cyanocobalamin] upon the efficacy and duration of spinal manipulation in its treatment of chronic…
- Trial name
- VCLBP (NCT06576739)
- Testing
- Spinal Manipulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 60 people
- Sponsor
- University of Western States