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Evidence is clearly not in line with most of the therapeutic claims made by chiropractors (Chaps. 10–12). Yet, few chiropractors seem worried about this fact; they tend to believe that their daily experience (and that of thousands of their colleagues as well as millions of patients) holds information about the effectiveness of their spinal manipulations.
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Ernst, E. (2020). What Is Evidence?. In: Chiropractic. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53118-8_9
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