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While acknowledging that supporting research remains slim, the Canadian Chiropractic Association is defending the practice of manipulating babies’ spines.

The organization representing the nation’s 9,000 chiropractors says parents can be reassured that its members modify their techniques and the “application of force” when adjusting fragile newborns and infants.

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“While the evidence for pediatric conditions is limited, research in this area is ongoing and growing,” the group said in a public statement posted on its website, a rebuttal of a National Post story published earlier in July questioning infant chiropractic care.

Scientific evidence for the effectiveness and efficacy of spinal manipulation in children 'is not plentiful or definitive'

The Post noted that, while one state government in Australia has ordered an independent expert review of infant spinal manipulation after disturbing YouTube footage emerged of a Melbourne chiropractor treating a two-week-old, Canadian babies are increasingly being adjusted by chiropractors, some of whom are taking weekend training courses run by an organization that has promoted anti-vaccination misinformation.