COVID-19: how has a global pandemic changed manual therapy technique education in chiropractic programs around the world?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Manual therapy is a cornerstone of chiropractic education, whereby students work towards a level of skill and expertise that is regarded as competent to work within the field of chiropractic. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, chiropractic programs in every region around the world had to make rapid changes to the delivery of manual therapy technique education, however what those changes looked like was unknown.

Aims

The aims of this study were to describe the immediate actions made by chiropractic programs to deliver education for manual therapy techniques and to summarise the experience of academics who teach manual therapy techniques during the initial outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

A qualitative descriptive approach was used to describe the immediate

SUBMITTER: de Luca K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7849220 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature