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Christine Goertz

Christine Goertz

Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery
Orthopaedic Surgery
christine.goertz@duke.edu
816 Woodland Road, Oskaloosa, IA 52577
300 W Morgan St, Office #441, Durham, NC 27701

Scholarly Works - Conferences

Randomized effectiveness trial of a brief course of acupuncture for posttraumatic stress disorder.

Conference Med Care · December 2014 BACKGROUND: Initial posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) care is often delayed and many with PTSD go untreated. Acupuncture appears to be a safe, potentially nonstigmatizing treatment that reduces symptoms of anxiety, depression, and chronic pain, but litt ... Full text Link to item Cite

Focus article: report of the NIH Task Force on Research Standards for Chronic Low Back Pain.

Conference Eur Spine J · October 2014 UNLABELLED: Despite rapidly increasing intervention, functional disability due to chronic low back pain (cLBP) has increased in recent decades. We often cannot identify mechanisms to explain the major negative impact cLBP has on patients' lives. Such cLBP ... Full text Link to item Cite

Forces applied during manual assessments of low back pain patients

Conference ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Proceedings Imece · January 1, 2014 Doctors of chiropractic (DCs) use manual palpation to subjectively assess the relative "stiffness" (resistance) of spinal articulations to help inform decisions regarding where to focus treatment. The objective of this study was to quantify the forces gene ... Full text Cite

Development of force-feedback technology for training clinicians to deliver manual cervical distraction

Conference ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Proceedings Imece · January 1, 2013 Objective: Neck pain is a prevalent musculoskeletal (MSK) complaint and costly societal burden. Doctors of chiropractic(DCs) provide manual therapies for neck pain patients to relieve discomfort and improve physical function. Manual cervical distraction (M ... Full text Cite

Results of the Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy

Conference CIRCULATION · December 4, 2012 Link to item Cite

Neck pain participant's perception of traction forces during chiropractic manual cervical distraction

Conference ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition Proceedings Imece · January 1, 2012 In this exploratory study, we measured applied traction forces during a chiropractic manual cervical distraction procedure for each of three "treatment" perceptions; (i) beginning to feel a stretch, (ii) stretch feels like it could be a treatment, and (iii ... Full text Cite