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Chiropractic is hugely popular—at least this is what we are often told, usually by interested parties. But how popular is it really? The answer is, as we shall see, that its popularity is variable and usually modest.
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Ernst, E. (2020). Current Popularity of Chiropractic. In: Chiropractic. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53118-8_3
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