Differing Characteristics of Human-Shaped Visual Stimuli Affect Clinicians’ Dosage of a Spinal Manipulative Thrust on a Low-Fidelity Model: A Cross-Sectional Study
Steven R. Passmore DC, PhD , Quinn Malone BSc , Brian MacNeil PhD , Elizabeth Sanli PhD , David Gonzalez PhD
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Abstract
Objective
The purpose of this study was to determine whether chiropractic clinicians modulate spinal manipulation (SM) thrust characteristics based on visual perception of simulated human silhouette attributes.
Methods
We performed a cross-sectional within-participant design with 8 experienced chiropractors. During each trial, participants observed a human-shaped life-sized silhouette of a mock patient and delivered an SM thrust on a low-fidelity thoracic spine model based on their visual perception. Silhouettes varied on the following 3 factors: apparent sex (male or female silhouette), height (short, average, tall), and body mass index (BMI) (underweight, healthy, obese). Each combination was presented 6 times for a total of 108 trials in random order. Outcome measures included peak thrust force, thrust duration, peak preload force, peak acceleration, time to peak acceleration, and rate of force application. A 3-way repeated measures analysis of variance model was used to for each variable, followed by Tukey's honestly significant difference on significant interactions.
Results
Peak thrust force was reduced when apparent sex of the presented silhouette was female (F1,7 = 5.70, P = .048). Thrust duration was largely invariant, except that a BMI by height interaction revealed a longer duration occurred for healthy tall participants than healthy short participants (F4,28 = 4.34, P = .007). Compared to an image depicting obese BMI, an image appearing underweight lead to reduced peak acceleration (F2,5 = 6.756, P = .009). Clinician time to peak acceleration was reduced in short compared to tall silhouettes (t7 = 2.20, P = .032).
Conclusion
Visual perception of simulated human silhouette attributes, including apparent sex, height, and BMI, influenced SM dose characteristics through both kinetic and kinematic measures. The results suggest that visual information from mock patients affects the decision-making of chiropractic clinicians delivering SM thrusts.
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