Treatment of Adult Neck Pain Not Due to Whiplash Guideline

Chiropractic Clinical Practice Guideline

The draft of the new Clinical Practice Guideline: Evidence-Based Treatment of Adult Whiplash Associated Disorder Grades 1-4 of the Cervical Spine is now available here for your review and comment. (See interactive table of contents below).

On behalf of the Canadian Chiropractic Association and the Canadian Federation of Chiropractic Regulatory and Educational Accreditation Boards, you are encouraged to review this draft of the Guideline and provide your feedback. Once you have reviewed the documents, you are invited to submit your feedback to any of the 28 stakeholder organizations involved in the Guideline development process.

This draft Guideline has been developed to the highest standards and represents an important evolution in providing members with objective, evidence-based guidance on clinical practice issues.

One of the key aspects of the Guideline development process is feedback from practicing chiropractors who will be using the information in a clinical practice setting. We hope that every practitioner will take this opportunity to review the draft and provide important feedback for the refinement of the Guideline. Please take some time to contribute your expertise to this valuable development process. The finalized Guideline will be published in the Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association.

Clinical Advice for Treating WAD 

• Section 1. The WAD-plus model 
• Section 2. Practical treatment advice 
• Section 3. Administering manipulation and adjunctive therapies
• Section 4. Managing the risk of adverse events
• Section 5. Questions and answers about following the recommendations
• Section 6. Glossary

Evidence Based Treatment of Adults with WAD

• 1. Introduction 
• 2. Methods 
• 3. Results: general 
• 4. Results: a model for understanding the evidence and recommendations
• 5. Results: treating patients with acute WAD 
• 6. Results: treating a patient group with acute and subacute WAD 
• 7. Results: treating patients with subacute WAD 
• 8. Results: treating patients with chronic WAD 
• 9. Results: treating patients with WAD for an undefined period 
• 10. Results: managing the risk of adverse events 
• 11. Results: research recommendations 
• 12. Conclusion 
• Tables, Figures and Appendices