Dr. Cesar Hincapie and I discuss his research involving chiropractic, lumbar disc herniations and nerve root injections. He describes the ongoing SALuBRITY trial which is the first-ever chiropractic randomized clinical trial funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and is also partially funded by the European Centre for Chiropractic Research Excellence.
Dr. Cesar Hincapié completed his clinical training as a Doctor of Chiropractic (DC, 2003) at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, in Toronto, Canada. While maintaining a clinical practice, he earned a MHSc (2008) and a PhD (2015) in epidemiology at the University of
Toronto. During his PhD, he was awarded a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellowship in knowledge translation. After several years of research, clinical, and teaching activities, Dr. Hincapié completed postdoctoral training in clinical trials and injury epidemiology at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael’s Hospital (University of Toronto affiliated academic hospital). In 2019, he was recruited to the University of Zurich as an International Chiropractic Research Fellow and served as head of clinical research within the Department of Chiropractic Medicine at Balgrist University Hospital and University of Zurich. As of August 2022, Cesar joined the Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute at the University of Zurich as Senior Scientist and Head of the Musculoskeletal Epidemiology Research Group.
The Musculoskeletal Epidemiology Research Group is an interdisciplinary research team focused on producing high quality and relevant research related to musculoskeletal and spine health and care. Their work applies a clinical epidemiological perspective to the area of musculoskeletal health and care. Dr. Hincapié is the principal investigator of the SALuBRITY randomised clinical trial, which is assessing the comparative effectiveness of spinal manual therapy and corticosteroid nerve root injection for the management of patients with sciatica.
Here is the video of our conversation.
Please see Dr. Hincapie’s researchgate.net profile here.
Here are the articles we discussed in this episode.
Listen as Dr. Cassidy and I discuss his career in chiropractic, research, and hear his thoughts on a variety of important issues including the powerful role of psychosocial factors on health. Dr. Cassidy is a Professor of Epidemiology and Health Policy at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. He is also an Adjunct Globalization Professor at the Faculty of Health at the University of Southern Denmark. He began his career as a chiropractor (CMCC 1975) and later obtained graduate degrees in Surgery (MSc University of Saskatchewan), Pathology (PhD University of Saskatchewan) and Injury Epidemiology (DrMedSc Karolinska Institute, Sweden). His past appointments include Assistant Professor of Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan (1994-1999), Associate Professor of Public Health and Medicine at the University of Alberta (2000-2003), Senior Scientist at the Toronto Western Hospital Research Institute (2003-2017) and Professor of Sport Science and Clinical Biomechanics at the University of Southern Denmark (2011-2016).
Listen as Dr. Pierre Côté and I discuss his involvement in hugely impactful research on stroke, lumbar disc herniations and neck pain. He provides chiropractors with key information that helps de-mystify these topics. Pierre Côté DC, PhD is an epidemiologist. In 2013, he was awarded the prestigious Canada Research Chair in Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation from the Canadian Government. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, director of the UOIT-CMCC Centre for the Study of Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation and an Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Côté graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 1989. In 1996, he obtained a Master’s Degree in Surgery from the University of Saskatchewan. He completed his PhD in epidemiology at the University of Toronto in 2002. In 2003, he received a New Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
