COVID-19: how has a global pandemic changed manual therapy technique education in chiropractic programs around the world?

Katie de Luca; Marcus McDonald; Laura Montgomery; Stephen Sharp; Anika Young; Simon Vella; Michelle M Holmes; Sasha Aspinall; Danica Brousseau; Chris Burrell; David Byfield; Dawn Dane; Philip Dewhurst; Aron Downie; Roger Engel; Brian Gleberzon; Dana Hollandsworth; Anne Molgaard Nielsen; Laura O'Connor; Michael Tunning; David Starmer; Paul Wanlass; Simon D French

doi:10.1186/s12998-021-00364-7

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COVID-19: how has a global pandemic changed manual therapy technique education in chiropractic programs around the world?

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COVID-19: how has a global pandemic changed manual therapy technique education in chiropractic programs around the world?

Katie de Luca, Marcus McDonald, Laura Montgomery, Stephen Sharp, Anika Young, Simon Vella, Michelle M Holmes, Sasha Aspinall, Danica Brousseau, Chris Burrell, …

Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, Vol.29, Article 7

01/02/2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12998-021-00364-7

PMID: 33522933

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Chiropractic - education

COVID-19

Education, Distance - methods

Humans

Musculoskeletal Manipulations - education

Qualitative Research

SARS-CoV-2

United States

Background Manual therapy is a cornerstone of chiropractic education, whereby students work towards a level of skill and expertise that is regarded as competent to work within the field of chiropractic. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, chiropractic programs in every region around the world had to make rapid changes to the delivery of manual therapy technique education, however what those changes looked like was unknown. Aims The aims of this study were to describe the immediate actions made by chiropractic programs to deliver education for manual therapy techniques and to summarise the experience of academics who teach manual therapy techniques during the initial outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. Methods A qualitative descriptive approach was used to describe the immediate actions made by chiropractic programs to deliver manual therapy technique education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chiropractic programs were identified from the webpages of the Councils on Chiropractic Education International and the Council on Chiropractic Education – USA. Between May and June 2020, a convenience sample of academics who lead or teach in manual therapy technique in those programs were invited via email to participate in an online survey with open-ended questions. Responses were entered into the NVivo software program and analysed using a reflexive thematic analysis by a qualitative researcher independent to the data collection. Results Data from 16 academics in 13 separate chiropractic programs revealed five, interconnected themes: Immediate response; Move to online delivery; Impact on learning and teaching; Additional challenges faced by educators; and Ongoing challenges post lockdown. Conclusion This study used a qualitative descriptive approach to describe how some chiropractic programs immediately responded to the initial outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in their teaching of manual therapy techniques. Chiropractic programs around the world provided their students with rapid, innovative learning strategies, in an attempt to maintain high standards of chiropractic education; however, challenges included maintaining student engagement in an online teaching environment, psychomotor skills acquisition and staff workload.

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Title: COVID-19: how has a global pandemic changed manual therapy technique education in chiropractic programs around the world?
Creators: Katie de Luca - Macquarie University
Marcus McDonald - RMIT University
Laura Montgomery - Macquarie University
Stephen Sharp - Macquarie University
Anika Young - Macquarie University
Simon Vella - Macquarie University
Michelle M Holmes - Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation
Sasha Aspinall - Murdoch University
Danica Brousseau - Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Chris Burrell - Macquarie University
David Byfield - UNSW Sydney
Dawn Dane - Central Queensland University
Philip Dewhurst - Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation
Aron Downie - Macquarie University
Roger Engel - Macquarie University
Brian Gleberzon - Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Dana Hollandsworth - Parker University
Anne Molgaard Nielsen - University of Southern Denmark
Laura O'Connor - Durban University of Technology
Michael Tunning - Palmer College of Chiropractic
David Starmer - Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Paul Wanlass - Southern California University of Health Sciences
Simon D French - Department of Chiropractic, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Publication Details: Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, Vol.29, Article 7
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd.
Identifiers: 991013002592202368
Copyright: © The Author(s). 2021 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
Academic Unit: Faculty of Health
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

COVID-19: how has a global pandemic changed manual therapy technique education in chiropractic programs around the world?

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