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Area of Science:

  • Chiropractic Education
  • Clinical Terminology Analysis

Background:

  • The term "subluxation" is central to chiropractic practice.
  • Understanding implicit definitions within educational materials is crucial for consistent terminology.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate implicit consensus definitions of "subluxation" within a chiropractic college curriculum.
  • To identify how the term "subluxation" is conceptualized by educators and students.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized WordSmith Tools for corpus analysis of an undergraduate chiropractic curriculum.
  • Employed discourse analysis on text blocks containing terms related to "subluxation".

Main Results:

  • Identified three distinct implicit definitions of "subluxation": an acute injury, a post-injury clinical syndrome, and a pain-generating lesion.
  • These concepts, while distinct, were all encompassed by the term "subluxation".

Conclusions:

  • Coherent, albeit subconscious, implicit definitions of "subluxation" exist within the analyzed curriculum.
  • Confusion arises from the failure to differentiate between these distinct concepts when using the term "subluxation".