Jonathon Kirsch's research while affiliated with Canadian College of Osteopathy and other places

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Context: Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) has been utilized by osteopathic clinicians as primary or adjunctive management for dizziness caused by neuro-otologic disorders. To our knowledge, no current systematic reviews provide pooled estimates that evaluate the impact of OMT on dizziness. Objectives: We aimed to systematically evaluate...
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Background Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) has been increasingly adopted by osteopathic practitioners to treat dizziness from neuro-otologic disorders. However, no systematic review has investigated effectiveness of OMT on benefit outcomes and harm outcomes associated with OMT for these conditions. The current protocol will provide pooled...

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... We provided our conclusion based on the overall published literature and not only on the three pooled analyses. The quality of evidence in our pooled analysis was moderate [3]. According to the Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development, and Evaluations (GRADE) criteria [4], with moderate quality evidence, further research is likely to impact confidence in the estimate of effect and may change the estimate. ...
... All studies that specifically defined cervicogenic dizziness as a form of vertigo caused by vascular impingement within the cervical spine were excluded from the study. We stated this in our published protocol as an exclusion criterion [2]. Consistent with our inclusion of neuro-otological disorders, studies that defined cervicogenic dizziness as an impaired or altered interaction between cervical proprioceptive input and vestibular function met our inclusion criteria. ...