One of the beautiful things about the work that we are now doing is that we are collaborating with mainstream researchers at leading universities around the world. They are collecting data for us and finding the same results that we are getting in our labs. So it’s not just chiropractors who will be saying how important these findings are, it will be leading neurophysiologists and clinical researchers who are discussing these amazing findings on the world stage. For example we recently received funding from Spinal Research and the Hamblin Trust for a project that aims to give us greater clarity regarding which structures in the brain are talking to each other prior to, and after, chiropractic adjustments. In other words we want to map the brain and see how communication networks and different brain areas change following chiropractic care. This project is bringing together some of the world’s leading neurophysiology researchers in Denmark, Canada, Germany and Australia to work with us in our labs in New Zealand.
Dr Haavik was able to spend three months this year at the University of Aalborg in Denmark with Dr Imran Khan Niazi, our amazing new bioengineer, and we were able to work with Dr Dina Lelic and Professor Asbjørn Drewes to collect pilot data for this study. The results of the preliminary work are quite frankly the most thrilling findings we’ve encountered to date in our research efforts! We are now going to complete data collection for this study in New Zealand, thanks to the funding raised by Spinal Research and Hamblin Trust. If we confirm the results we have already it may explain many of the amazing changes we see in everyday chiropractic practice as well as a great deal of the findings we have encountered in our previous research.
