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Abstract
Forty-three per cent of patients will suffer long-term symptoms following ‘whiplash’
injury, for which no conventional treatment has proven to be effective. A retrospective
study was undertaken to determine the effects of chiropractic in a group of 28 patients
who had been referred with chronic ‘whiplash’ syndrome. The severity of patients'
symptoms was assessed before and after treatment using the Gargan and Bannister (1990)
classification. Twenty-six (93 per cent) patients improved following chiropractic
treatment (U = 34, P < 0.001). The encouraging results from this retrospective study merit the instigation
of a prospective randomized controlled trial to compare conventional with chiropractic
treatment in chronic ‘whiplash’ injury.
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Accepted:
May 22,
1996
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© 1996 Published by Elsevier Inc.
