Chapman Smith Report November 2016

A time for resolutions

“There is now clear evidence that chiropractic treatment is effective in the management and cure of both common and classical migraine.
Th is has been accepted by government inquiries and medical researchers.”

So begins the first issue of Th e Chiropractic Report (TCR) 30 years ago in November 1986, referencing the new chiropractic and medical research evidence in support.

Chiropractic was then moving from adolescence to adulthood. Serious research was at last underway.

After exactly 30 years of publication, bringing summaries of the most significant new research and professional developments to chiropractors everywhere every two months, this is the final issue of TCR. In his 70th year the editor is turning to other pursuits.

It reviews the complete transformation of the profession over the past three decades from an upstart, healthcare outsider in the English-speaking world to an established global profession with a leading role in the research and management of spinal health.

TCR has reported the unfolding history of the profession. As Dr Phillip Ebrall of RMIT University in Melbourne commented some years ago now, “for the history of the profession since the 1980s just see the past issues of Th e Chiropractic Report.”

This closing issue of TCR provides an overview of this transformative era, then selects 10 of the most influential events and 10 of the most significant research studies.