physical injury assessment of male versus female chiropractic students when learning and performing various adjustive techniques a preliminary investigative study物理伤害评估男性与女性按摩学生当学习和执行各种调节的技术的初步调查研究.pdf

Chiropractic Osteopathy BioMed Central Research Open Access Physical injury assessment of male versus female chiropractic students when learning and performing various adjustive techniques: a preliminary investigative study Debra W Bisiacchi* and Laura L Huber Address: Division of Chiropractic Sciences, Life University College of Chiropractic, 1269 Barclay Circle, Marietta, GA 30060, USA Email: Debra W Bisiacchi* - debradc@; Laura L Huber - lhuber@ * Corresponding author Published: 24 August 2006 Received: 06 October 2005 Accepted: 24 August 2006 Chiropractic Osteopathy 2006, 14:17 doi:10.1186/1746-1340-14-17 This article is available from: /content/14/1/17 © 2006 Bisiacchi and Huber; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Reports of musculoskeletal injuries that some chiropractic students experienced while in the role of adjustor became increasingly evident and developed into the basis of this study. The main objective of this study was to survey a select student population and identify, by gender, the specific types of musculoskeletal injuries they experienced when learning adjustive techniques in the classroom, and performing them in the clinical setting. Methods: A survey was developed to record musculoskeletal injuries that