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Focus On Research	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Chiropractic Updates	-	-	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Patient Updates	-	-	2002	2003	2004

Focus on Research 2000
Month	Title
December	Choosing Scientific Goals: The Need for a Normative Approach, etc

Focus on Research 2001
Month	Title
May	Can an upper cervical adjustment effect the sympathetic nervous system and thereby alter cardiovascular function?, etc
December	Upper Cervical Spine Adjustments And Alterations In Heart Rate Variability In Healthy Young Adults, etc

Focus on Research 2002
Month	Title
April	Diseases of Meaning, Manifestations of Health, and Metaphor, etc
October	The Vertebral Subluxation Complex,etc

Focus on Research 2003
Month	Title
January	Are Medical Undergraduates Being Taught Chiropractic in North American Medical Schools? etc
April	Demonstration of Brain-to-Immune System Interaction – first time in humans, etc
July	Complexity and Chiropractic:A scientific rationale for a Holistic Approach, etc
October	Chiropractic Adjustments Improve Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency: Two Case , etc

Focus On Research 2004
Month	Title
Feb	Referencing and Quotation accuracy in four Manual Therapy Journals, etc
May	The End of the Disease Era, etc
Aug	Lack of Physical Activity more Deadly than Smoking, etc
Nov	Chiropractic Maintanence Care , etc

Focus on Research 2005
Month	Title
March	Into what Risk Category does Chiropractic Adjustment of the Cervical Spine belong?
July	Self-reported Non-musculoskeletal Responses to Chiropractic: A Multination Survey
October	The Relationship between Spinal Dysfunction and Reaction Time Measures
December	Relief of Depression and Improvement in Global Well-Being in an Elderly Chiropractic Patient

Focus on Research 2006

Month

Title

April

When WorldViews Collide: Maintaining a Vitalistic Perspective in Chiropractic in the Postmodern Era

July

Integrating Evidence into Clinical Practice: An Alternative to Evidence-based Approaches

Oct

Atlas Vertebra Realignment and Arterial Pressure in Hypertensive Patients: A Pilot Study.

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ASRF Chiropractic Updates 2002
No.	Title
1	What are Symptoms? The Case of Morning Sickness
2	Results of a Placebo Controlled Clinical Trial of Arthroscopic Knee Surgery
3	Disease - a Slippery Concept
4	Hearing Improvement Following Chiropractic Care
5	How Long do We Need to Listen During a New Patient Consult?
6	Can Patient Expectation Specifically Modify Endogenous Opioid Activity?
7	Antimicrobial Household Products: Are We Searching in All the Wrong Places for Health?
8	Evidence Based Health Care: Can it be taught and does it make a difference?
9	The Role of Symptoms from a Chiropractic Perspective

ASRF Chiropractic Updates 2003
No.	Title
10	Chiropractic Adjustments, Vertebral Subluxations and Infant Skull Asymmetry
11	The Spine, the Nervous System, and the Cardiovascular System
12	Theorising about Subluxation and SIDS
13	Information Overload?
14	Values
15	Acute Activation of Sympathetic Nervous System can Cause Cytokine Network Imbalance
16	Loss of Joint Nerve Supply Impairs Healing & Promotes DJD
17	Genetic Determinism??
18	Chiropractic Care of a Patient with Vertebral Subluxation and Bell's Palsy
19	Subject: Why Patients Use Chiropractic
20	Should Chiropractic be Forced into the Evidence-based Health Care Box
21	The Effect of Chiropractic Adjustment on Serum Immunoglobulin M Levels
22	Are We any Closer to Understanding the Influence of Spinal Disturbances on the Central ervous System
23	Cervical Spine Adjustment & Short-Term Lymphocytic Response - A Pilot Study
24	Spinal Adjusting Versus Antimicrobial Therapy for Childhood Chronic Otitis Media
25	Further Misuse of the Term "Chiropractic"
26	What's The Truth Regarding Adverse Drug Events?
27	Is Acute Low Back Pain Benign?
28	Respecting the Body's Inborn Adaptive Responses - The Importance of Fever: An Update
29	Evidence-based Double Standards?
30	Searching the Health Care Literature using PubMed: A Brief Tutorial
31	Is Vitalism a Strong Foundation or Quicksand?
32	Questions Concerning Evidence-based Health Care's Hierarchy of Evidence

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ASRF Chiropractic Updates 2004
No.	Title
33	Attitudes Toward Research in Undergraduate Chiropractic Students
34	Conceptualising Paradigm Relevant Hypotheses- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
35	How Structural Networks Influence Cellular Information Processing
36	The Cervical Spine, Balance, and Risk of Falling in the Elderly
37	Letter to the Editor
38	Developmental Dyslexia and Chiropractic Care: A Case Series
39	Satisfaction with Chiropractic Treatment: What Role Does the Physical Outcome Play?
40	The Drug Industry and Medical Practice: A Case Study of Menopausal Hormone Therapy In Estonia
41	A Contemporary View of Subluxation that is Consistent with the Founder's View: A Commentary
42	Who was Alvan R Feinstein?
43	Is the Placebo Powerless?
44	Full-Body CT Screening of Health Adults
45	Effect of Antibacterial Home Cleaning Products on Infectious Disease Symptoms
46	A Review of How Individuals Think About Health
47	Effectiveness of Adenotonsillectomy in Children with Throat Infections or Tonsillitis
48	What Role for Chiropractic in the Care of those with Scoliosis?
49	Is Exposure to Household Chemicals Associated with Asthma in Young Children?
50	Regular Moderate Physical Activity Sustains The Aging Mind and Body
51	Physiotherapy compared with advise to stay active for low back pain
52	Facts' and 'Myths' about Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
53	New Study Suggests Chiropractic Care Reduces Overall Health Care Expenditures
54	Impact of Postural Deformities & Spinal Mobility on Quality of life of postmemopausal women
55	Belief & Behaviours: Understanding Chiropractors & Immunization
56	Does a patient's personality coping strategies, and / or social support network influence their use of chiorpractic?
57	The regulation & professionalization of chiropractic: a case study based on the UK experience.
58	Evidence-Based Medicine and its implications for the profession of Chiropractic
59	A non-randomized clinical control trial of Harrison Mirror Image Methods for Correcting Trunk List
60	Chiropractic Care for infants with colic: a case series
61	Does the Biomedical model of illness make for a good healthcare system?

ASRF Chiropractic Updates 2005
No.	Title
62	The Elusive Ethics of New Drug Development
63	The Rise and Rise of CAM: A Sociological Perspective
64	WFC Identify Survey Summary
65	Kinematic and Electromyographic Response to Whiplash
66	Mercury, Autism Connection Found in Study
67	Does the Medical Literature Represent a Selective and Biased Subset of Studies?
68	Poro-Elastic and Chemical Electric Model of Healthy and Degenerated Intervertebral Discs
69	Has Medicine's Conceptualisation of the Health Evolved over the last Two Decades?
70	Influence of Context on Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review
71	Does How Patients do Depend on How They Think They'll Do? A Systematic Review
72	Cervical Spondylosis Affects Gastrointestinal Function
73	Coherent Energy, Liquid Crystrallinity and Health
74	Cost Effectiveness of Complementary Care in the United Kingdom: A Systematic Review
75	Can Words Hurt?
76	Antibiotic Prescribing for Children who have a Medical Physician or Pharmacist as a Parent
77	Predicting the Failure of Disc Surgery by a Hypofunctional HPA Axis: Evidence from a Prospective Study.
78	Stressed or Stressed Out: What's the Difference?

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ASRF Chiropractic Updates 2006
No.	Title
79	The Spine-related Beliefs of Two Groups of Health Care Providers: Are We Fear-avoidant?
80	Judging A Book By Its Cover: Patients' Preferences For Doctors' Appearance
81	Improvement in Hearing after Chiropractic Care: A Case Series
82	Chiropractic and Pregnancy: A Retrospective Case Series.
83	Can Exercise Accelerate Wound Healing?
84	Chiropractic and Patients with Stable Angina Pectoris
85	Chiropractic and Phantom Limb Pain amongst People with Lower-limb Amputation
86	Does Continuity of Care Effect Patient Satisfaction, Patient Outcomes and Costs?
87	Are Medical Journals an Extension of the Marketing Arm of Pharmaceutical Companies?
88	A New Model To Help Explain Cervical Artery Dissection: A paradigm-shift?
89	The Transformation of Spinal Curvature into Spinal Deformity
90	Is LBP Just the Marker of a More Generalised Loss of Overall Spinal Health Status?
91	Journal Publications by Australian Chiropractic Academics: Are they enough?
92	Deconstructing the Evidence-based Discourse in Health Sciences: Truth, Power and Fascism
93	How far can Complementary and Aternative Medicine go?The case of Chiropractic and Homeopathy
94	Does Subluxation Actually Affect The Nervous System?

ASRF Chiropractic Updates 2007
No.	Title
95	Accuracy of Spinal Orthopaedic Tests: A Systematic Review
96	Does the risk of serious NSAID - related Gastrointesional Events - Decline during long term use

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ASRF Patient Updates 2002
No.	Title
1	What are Symptoms? The Case of Morning Sickness.
1a	What are Symptoms?
2	Self-healing Ability and Nerve Supply
3	Health: Are We Searching in All the Wrong Places?

ASRF Patient Updates 2003
No.	Title
4	Chiropractic Adjustments May Help Resolve Infant Skull Flattening
5	The Spine, the Nervous System, and the Cardiovascular System
6	Unequal Leg Increases Risk of Spinal Disorders and Degeneration
7	Increased Early Activity for those with Spinal Problems Reduces Sick Leave

ASRF Patient Updates 2004
No.	Title
8	Effect of Antibacterial Home Cleaning Products on Infectious Disease Symptoms
9	Effectiveness of Tonsillectomy in Children with Throat Infections and Tonsillistis
10	Is Exposure to Household Chemicals Associated with Asthma in Young Children?
11	Does Healthy Living Really Make a Difference?
12	New Study Suggests Chiropractic Care Reduces Overall Health Care Expenditures
13	Chiropractic Maintenance Care

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How far can Complementary and Aternative Medicine go?The case of Chiropractic and Homeopathy

Does the risk of serious NSAID - related Gastrointesional Events - Decline during long term use