Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis and most commonly occurs in the hands, knees, hips, and spine. According to the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH),...
A recent article from Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) titled, Laughter Leaves Me Lighter, provides some evidence for the benefits of laughter in coping with stress such as COVID-19 as well as some...
The American Journal of Managed Care published an August 1, 2019 retrospective cohort study of a combination of national data of the conventional medical system for Medicare. The combined data illustrate 84,679 older adults...
A systematic search by MEDLINE, PUBMED, EMBASE, Cochrane Library, and SCO-PUS from inception to January 2019 produced interesting results in patients presenting to emergency departments for low back pain (LBP). All together 41,320 patients...
A November 15, 2019 article in ‘Scolio Smart Clinics’ by Clayton Stitzel DC, describes benefits of massage therapy for treatment of scoliosis. Benefits from massage include temporary pain relief, heightened body awareness (which may...
Want to keep up with notices from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and others? The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) publishes regular updates and notices from...
An article in the December 17, 2019 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), highlighted the outcome of a systematic review designed to look at a rational clinical examination to identify the presence of a...
In Wuhan, China, late December 2019 saw many cases of a pneumonia that proved fatal quickly for an alarming number of those who were sick. Chinese researchers soon after identified a new virus that...
The Number Needed to Treat (NNT) is a simple and effective way to communicate the potential benefit or harm of a treatment. While it is a statistical concept it is also quite intuitive and...
If you are a massage therapists and you weren't able to attend the International Massage Therapy Research Conference (MTRC) last year in Virginia, you now have access recordings of the presentations and can receive...