| The integration of chiropractors into healthcare teams: a case study from sport medicine. | |
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PMID: 18254831 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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This article examines the integration of chiropractors into multi-disciplinary healthcare teams in the specialisation of sport medicine. Sport medicine is practised in a number of contexts in professional and amateur sport. The current analysis focuses on the highest levels of amateur sport, as exemplified by the Olympics. Data are taken from interviews with 35 health professionals, including physicians, physiotherapists, athletic therapists and chiropractors. A defining feature of sport medicine is an emphasis on performance, which is the basis for a client-centred model of practice. These two elements have provided the main grounds for the inclusion of chiropractic in sport medicine. While the common understanding that 'athletes wanted them' has helped to secure a position for chiropractic within the system of sport medicine professions, this position is marked by ongoing tensions with other professions over the scope and content of practice, and the nature of the patient-practitioner relationship. In the context of these tensions, chiropractors' success in achieving acceptance on sport medicine teams is contingent on two factors: (a) reduced scope of practice in which they work primarily as manual therapists; and (b) the exemplary performance of individual practitioners who 'fit' into multi-disciplinary sport medicine teams. |
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Authors:
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Nancy Theberge |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Sociology of health & illness Volume: 30 ISSN: 0141-9889 ISO Abbreviation: Sociol Health Illn Publication Date: 2008 Jan |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2008-02-07 Completed Date: 2008-04-23 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8205036 Medline TA: Sociol Health Illn Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 19-34 Citation Subset: IM |
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University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. theberge@uwaterloo.ca |
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Chiropractic* Female Humans Interprofessional Relations* Male Ontario Organizational Case Studies Patient Care Team* Sports Medicine* |
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