ON CAMPUS RESEARCH
“During qualitative research, such as the study at
Crotched Mountain, you spend time with people’s thoughts and words — interviewing people and analyzing the responses, rereading the material, studying where it fits into the current literature and asking yourself if there are new thoughts or ideas that need to be explored. This is the type of research mindset that students learn when they’re involved in studies at Palmer.” Currently, Dr. Salsbury is leading the Active Aging for
Spine Health Study to identify the best ways chiropractors can deliver patient education for middle-aged and older individuals. “I got interested in this topic when I started experiencing pain after doing everyday activities like gardening, and my doctor told me that maybe I needed to stop doing these things. That’s when I realized that there are a lot of people out there who need education about how chiropractic care can allow people to continue doing things they love. It’s just a matter of identifying the best ways to deliver that patient education.”
When asked about the impact of her research, Dr.
Salsbury reflects, “When I was a practicing nurse, I got to see how I helped individuals every day. When you’re a chiropractor, you see the impact of your work every day. Yet when you’re a researcher, you have to know that while your work has the potential to reach many people over a long period of time, you may never see that directly. We’re still creating new knowledge from studies we began 11 years ago when I started at Palmer — and that’s pretty exciting.”
“We’re still creating new knowledge from studies we began 11 years ago when I started at Palmer — and that’s pretty
exciting.”
—Stacie Salsbury, M.S.N., Ph.D., R.N.
WANT TO KNOW MORE about the research referenced in this story? View the full studies online:
Salsbury SA, Vining RD, Gosselin D, Goertz CM. (2018). Be good, communicate, and collaborate: a qualitative analysis of stakeholder perspectives on adding a chiropractor to the multidisciplinary rehabilitation team. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 26:29.
https://chiromt.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/ s12998-018-0200-4
Maiers M, Salsbury SA. (Published ahead of print). “Like peanut butter and jelly”: a qualitative study of chiropractic care and home exercise among older adults with spine disability. Arthritis Care & Research.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acr.24636
BIENNIAL REPORT
The Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research 2019-2021 Biennial Report is available online. Visit
palmer.edu/ research-annual-report to learn more.
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