Dr. Jeffrey Cates |
Since it was founded in 1985,
the Council on Chiropractic Guidelines
and Practice Parameters
(CCGPP) has produced a number
of best practice literature syntheses,
guidelines, companion documents
and programs to assist chiropractors
in providing the best care for
their patients.
Jeffrey Cates, D.C., Davenport ’83,
M.S., has been a commission member since 2004 and has worked
on several projects as well. He led a team that performed a formal
appraisal of the American College of Occupational and Environmental
Medicine Guidelines. It was published in 2006 in The Spine
Journal. He also was appointed to the lumbar systematic literature
review team which published its literature synthesis in 2008 in the
Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics.
In 2006, CCGPP Research Chairman John Triano, D.C., Ph.D.,
asked Dr. Jeffrey Cates to lead a team assessment of the
literature pertaining to chiropractic management of thoracic
spine conditions. The systematic review and synthesis completed
in 2009 and draft copy of this, and others, can be viewed
at: http://www.ccgpp.org/view.htm.
Currently, Dr. Cates is working with his team to edit the thoracic
spine data into six Journal of Manipulative and Physiological
Therapeutics articles. The works should provide an informed and
balanced evidence-based interpretation of the literature regarding
the appropriate chiropractic treatment of the thoracic spine and
related disorders.
“I would like to recognize the remarkable people that I have
had the pleasure of working with on these CCGPP projects,”
says Dr. Cates. “Their hard work and selfless dedication to the
profession and humanity has served as a source of inspiration.”