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Record W4414778664 · doi:10.18103/mra.v13i9.6839

Perceptions of the Chiropractic Profession: An American perspective

2025· article· en· W4414778664 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
James Lehman

Bibliographic record

VenueMedical Research Archives · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicMusculoskeletal Disorders and Rehabilitation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsChiropracticSpecialtyPerspective (graphical)PerceptionAlternative medicineMedical profession

Abstract

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The chiropractic profession was created in America by a former Canadian, D.D. Palmer in 1895. Although chiropractors are licensed in all fifty states in America, the profession is still misunderstood. Insurance companies continue to label chiropractic as a specialty rather than a profession. The integration of chiropractic medicine and chiropractic postdoctoral training into medical organizations has been occurring since the 1970’s. Yet the majority of chiropractors, medical doctors and medical organizations know little about chiropractic postdoctoral training. This editorial intends to illustrate the perceptions of chiropractic patients, Federally Qualified Health Centers, medical physicians, and chiropractic physicians in the United States of America. Searches of the literature included peer-reviewed articles, professional magazines, and tabloids.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.841
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.003
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.473
Teacher spread0.447 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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