The European research unit for Chiropractic, European Centre for Chiropractic Excellence (ECCRE) is now online.
You get to the website by typing www.eccre.org in your browser and press the Return button on your keyboard, you will enter the website. The website contains information, news and links to important forms and documents about ECCRE.
A new research project, Danish Chiropractic Cohort (ChiCo), which is carried out by the Nordic Institute of Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics (NIKKB), has received a grant of nearly 3 million DKK from the Foundation for Chiropractic Research and Post Graduate Education. The grant secures the accomplishment of a systematic collection of data from a large group of patients with low back pain from Danish chiropractic clinics.
Tue Secher Jensen, chiropractor, PhD, Senior Researcher at NIKKB and Spine Centre of Southern Denmark and Alice Kongsted, chiropractor, PhD, Senior Researcher at NIKKB and Associate Professor at the Department of Sports Science…
Patients with chest pain are often afraid that their pain is a sign of heart disease. This fear leads to increased health care costs because patients often have more re-admissions to hospital. This need not be. New research shows great advantages in referring some patients for treatment by chiropractors in the primary sector instead.
Over the past 25 years the number of hospital admissions due to chest pain and suspected heart attack has increased significantly in many countries. For a minority of patients the pain is due to heart disease. By contrast, many are diagnosed with other disorders or…
In connection with the re-entry into the European Chiropractors’ Union, The Danish Chiropractic Association has agreed to establish a European research centre, the European Center for Chiropractic Research Excellence (ECCRE) at the Nordic Institute of Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics (NIKKB) in Odense, Denmark.
NIKKB has appointed Lone Kousgaard Jørgensen and Michael Christensen to represent the NIKKB board. The ECCRE board will also consist of Øystein Ogre, Chairman of ECU and Vasileios Gkolfinopoulos, treasurer of ECU.
The founding meeting of ECCRE will be held on May 6th, in connection with the ECU Convention in Oslo, Norway. Among other things,…
NIKKB will be quiet towards the end of the week, when Henrik Wulff Christensen, Alice Kongsted, Tue Secher Jensen, Mette Jensen Stochkendahl and Lise Hestbæk all take part in the ECU Convention in Norway.
The ECU Convention is held in the Oslo-suburb of Lillestrøm from May 5th to May 7th. Researcher’s Day, which has been arranged in part by Mette Jensen Stochkendahl, Chiropractor, PhD and Senior Researcher at NIKKB, is held the day before.
The theme for the ECU Convention id Building Bridges, while the theme for Researcher’s Day is Down from the ivory towers: Breaking down the…
