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Alice Kongsted appointed Professor at the University of Southern Denmark

Details: 11 October 2018

Alice Kongsted, Senior Researcher at NIKKB and Associate Professor at the Department for Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, has been appointed Professor with special obligations (wso) of Musculoskeletal Research in Primary Care at the Research Unit of Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark from November 1st 2018.

Alice Kongsted will strengthen the University of Southern Denmark's practice-based research in musculoskeletal health focusing on back pain and strengthen the recruitment and development of new research talents.

Alice Kongsted's appointment is officially marked with a joint appointment seminar for her and Professor at IOB, Bart Koes, on November…

Read about award winning presentations from ECU Convention 2018

Details: 11 October 2018

Unable to make to the ECU Convention in Budapest last spring? Now you can read about the award winning oral presentations and poster presentations from the convention in a new paper in Chiropractic & Manual Therapies titled ECU Convention 2018 Congress proceedings.

The paper is laid out as an overview of the award winning presentations in the form of abstracts from each presentation. The overview includes Steen Harsted’s ’Capturing movement patterns in children using a novel 3d motion capture approach’, Henrik Hein Lauridsens ‘Motor control and musculoskeletal health in kingergarten children’ and Lise Hestbæk’s presentation of Sara Thunøe Jensen’s poster…

The addition of manipulative therapy to exercise and guidance does not lower the amount of recurrent episodes of back or neck pain in children

Details: 18 September 2018

Manipulative therapy is increasingly being used to treat children’s back or neck pain pain despite the lack of evidence for the effect of the treatment. It is generally recommended as a treatment option for adults, and various health professions deliver manipulative therapy either on its own or in combination with other types of therapy, e.g. advice, exercises and soft-tissue treatment.

The aim of the current study was to determine how effective manipulative therapy is when added to other treatment options on the number of recurrent episodes of back or neck pain in children aged 9 – 15 years.…

Remember to submit abstracts for WFC/ECU Congress 2019

Details: 17 September 2018

Be aware that the deadline for submitting abstracts and posters for the 2019 WFC/ECU Congress is october 1st 201O

Read the general information and information about submission of abstracts and posters here: https://www.wfc.org/website/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=475&lang=en

Abstracts and posters must be submitted via this link: https://wfc-ecu-berlin-2019.exordo.com/login

Decline in long term use of opioids

Details: 24 August 2018

Less and less people in Denmark are prescribed opioids as part of their long term treatment of pain according to figures from the period 2008 – 2017 released by the Danish Health Authority. During that period the number of long term users (more than 5 years) of opioids has dropped from 86,000 to 60,000. The number of opioid users in 2017 is the lowest number in ten years, writes the Danish Health Authority on its website.

Opioids are used to treat chronic back pain, but it is uncertain if the balance between beneficial and harmful effects is positive for…