Re-establishing the cervical lordosis after whiplash: a Chiropractic Biophysics® spinal corrective care methods pre-auto injury and post-auto injury case report with follow-up.
Tim C Norton, Paul A Oakley, Deed E Harrison
PMID 36866005WHAT IT FOUND
In one teen, Chiropractic BioPhysics® traction and exercises increased cervical lordosis before and after a whiplash injury.
Neck pain and disability scores fell. This describes what happened to one person, not evidence that the method works.
Key findings
01A single case report describes a 16-year-old male whose cervical lordosis was altered by a motor vehicle collision and later re-established using Chiropractic BioPhysics® techniques.
02Post-treatment, the patient reported reduced neck and low back pain, with Neck Disability Index scores improving from 22% to 8%.
03The authors state that larger case series and randomized trials are needed to fully document the effects of restoring abnormal sagittal cervical alignment.
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What it does not show
This is a single subject case report, not a controlled study. The authors have conflicts of interest, including paid consultancy for the CBP NonProfit and sales of related products. The study relies on radiographic changes as the primary measure of success, which may not correlate with clinical outcomes in all patients. No comparison group was used, so it is impossible to determine if the improvement was due to the specific CBP techniques or natural recovery.
Declared interests
Dr. Paul Oakley is a paid consultant for CBP NonProfit, Inc. Dr. Deed Harrison teaches chiropractic rehabilitation methods and sells products used in this manuscript.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that Chiropractic BioPhysics® is an effective treatment for whiplash or cervical lordosis restoration. This is a single case report with significant conflicts of interest, and the authors themselves state that randomized trials are needed to document the effects.