Funding

The PCCR has one of the largest internal budgets among chiropractic institutions, supplemented increasingly by financial support from outside sources, such as the NCCAM, the NIH, and the Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER). These funds have been instrumental in expanding PCCR's many programs including research education, clinical science and experimental biomechanics/neurosciences, and its opportunities to develop chiropractic research projects.

It was through NIH funding that the Consortial Center for Chiropractic Research (CCCR) was established in 1997. The CCCR is the first federally funded research center at a chiropractic institution. Based at the PCCR, the Center has been focused on clinical and technical support to chiropractic investigators, the development of research projects and building an infrastructure to support chiropractic research.

Funding also has led to the substantial remodeling of the research clinic, now triple its former size, and laboratories in kinesiology, human biomechanics, neuroscience, anatomy and physiology. In vitro bioengineering and electron microscopy labs are now housed in the lower level, with work station space for trainees created for seminars and lectures.

The PCCR continues to be the foremost research facility in chiropractic. In 2003, the Center for the Study of Mechanisms & Effects of Chiropractic Adjustment was created at the PCCR through a grant funded by NCCAM. For three years this multi-disciplinary will contribute significant insight into spinal manipulation and its physiological biomechanical mechanisms through research conducted in collaboration with investigators at National University of Health Sciences, Kansas State University, State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook and The University of Iowa.

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