Chiropractic Care and Fall Prevention in Older Adults: What We Know, What We Can Do, and Steps We Can Take Going Forward

This educational lecture will discuss multimodal chiropractic care for fall prevention in older adults, a growing area of research, with three main goals. The first is to provide a rationale for the use of chiropractic care in fall prevention efforts. This rationale will summarize current evidence regarding key modifiable fall risk factors that may be targeted by multimodal chiropractic care. The second goal is to propose the implementation of fall prevention efforts in chiropractic practice. These fall prevention efforts will address fall risk screening in clinical practice and interventions that are both supported by current evidence and fall into the chiropractic scope of practice. The last goal is to offer recommendations for future research directions to begin addressing the evidence gap related to chiropractic care and fall prevention.