Chiropractic care for children: Too much, too little or not enough?

Chiropractic and Osteopathy

Volumn 18, Issue , 2010, Pages

  French, Simon D ^a,b   Walker, Bruce F ^c   Perle, Stephen M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILD HEALTH; CHIROPRACTIC; CHIROPRACTIC EDUCATION; CHIROPRACTIC PRACTICE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COLIC; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MANIPULATIVE MEDICINE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NOCTURNAL ENURESIS; OTITIS MEDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 77954062013     PISSN: 17461340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1746-1340-18-17     Document Type: Editorial

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