“Reliability and Validity of Common Chiropractic Tests” by Dr. Michael Schneider

Talking points:

·         Evidence based practice demands that the best physical examination procedures should be both reliable and valid

·         Learn how reliability is assessed between examiners and why this is the foundation of any good clinical testing procedure

·         Knowing how to interpret Kappa values and intraclass correlation coefficients

·         Understand the important differentiation between reliability and validity

·         Why the validity of physical exam procedures is always compared to a gold standard diagnostic test

·         Making sense of terms such as sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative likelihood ratios

·         A summary of the most reliable and valid clinical examination procedures for the lumbar and cervical spine