July 2002

CBP® 's 4th Clinical Control Trial to be published in JMPT

By Deed E. Harrison, DC

In March, we received a letter from Dr. Dana Lawrence, editor of JMPT, that our 4th CBP® Clinical Control Trial had been accepted at the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. This paper is entitled “Increasing the Cervical Lordosis with CBP® seated combined extension-compression and transverse load cervical traction with cervical manipulation: Non-randomized Clinical Control Trial,” by Harrison DE, Harrison DD, Betz JJ, Janik TJ, Holland B, and Colloca CJ. In this paper, we compared 30 treatment subject patients to 33 control subjects.           While control subjects showed no change in VAS scores and x-ray measurements, the treatment group showed marked improvement in both measures.

            Our 1st ever Clinical Control Trial (DeGeorge extension-compression cervical traction) was published in JMPT in 1994, our 2nd Clinical Control Trial (2-way cervical extension traction) was recently published in the April 2002 issue of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and our 3rd CBP® Clinical Control Trial (lumbar extension traction) is in press for Fall 2002 at the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

            These four CBP® Clinical Control Trials have been of major significance for a number of CBP® Practitioners in different states and countries. It seems that some boards are bringing CBP® practitioners up on charges for “over-utilization” because they are providing long-term structural care.  These CBP® DCs have gotten the board members off their backs. The CBP® DCs used the results of our four clinical control trials to show proof of how they scientifically estimated the amount (visits & time) of care that specific patients required to correct the patients’ spines and postures to as near normal as humanly possible. Of course, the Harrison Normal Spinal Model (published in JMPT, Spine, J Orthopedic Research, and J Spinal Disorders) is used for the spine normal goal and our reliability studies (published in Spine and JMPT) are used to show that the x-ray measurements were/are accurate.

            We have four other, new Clinical Control Trials and/or Cohort Studies in various stages of completion. When these are published, CBP® will have eight published clinical studies. However, our four completed studies are more than any other chiropractic technique has published at the present time.

            After his undergraduate pre-chiropractic courses at the University of Utah, Dr. Deed Harrison graduated from Life-West in 1996. He is co-author of more than 50 peer-reviewed, indexed, research articles. These include 32 in JMPT, 3 in Chiropractic Technique, and 15 at major Index Medicus journals. He is a Reviewer for an Index Medicus Orthopaedic journal. He is a certified instructor for CBP® Seminars, has written three new CBP® text books, and is Vice-President of CBP® Nonprofit, Inc. He has a private practice in Elko, Nevada.