September 2003 Contents

• New Study Questions Effectiveness of SMT for LBP
• The BACKLetter Launch - A New COCA Member Benefit
• President's Report
• Executive Director's Report
• Risk Management Program II '03
• Placebo - The Power behind the Throne?
  Part 2
• COCA's 5th Biennial Conference
• Why your research paper got rejected
• Legal-Chiropractic/Osteopathic Issues
• CA Acknowledgment Day
• Should Athletes Warm Up
• Hand Therapy - A Clinical Case
• Information Evening on Hand Physiotherapy
• Don’t Throw Away Your Trusty X-Ray Machine Just Yet!
• Premanipulative Screening of Vertebral Arteries using Doppler Velocimetry
• News from Overseas
• Marketing Report
• Abstracts
• Letters to the Editor