November 2006

HRSA awards grant to Logan College

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) awarded a $234,000 grant to Logan College of Chiropractic to fund its Musculoskeletal and Obstetric Management Study (MOMS).

Rodger Tepe, PhD, dean of research and development at Logan College, noted that this is the first federal grant awarded to the research department at Logan College.

Since 1998, internal funding from Logan College has been supporting this project, resulting in a successful and ongoing collaboration between Logan College of Chiropractic and Washington University School of Medicine’s clinics at Barnes-Jewish and Missouri Baptist hospitals. MOMS has developed solid interdisciplinary relationships among chiropractic physicians, medical physicians, and nurses in hospital-based clinic settings serving the healthcare needs of pregnant women in the St. Louis community.

Tepe said, “All of this research is motivated by a single purpose — to help identify and provide solutions for musculoskeletal problems in pregnant women. We believe the MOMS project is a step in this direction, a step in which an interdisciplinary team (including chiropractic and medical physicians) works together to treat and prevent pregnancy-related musculoskeletal pain.”

Logan College’s current research initiatives encompass studies of numerous chiropractic spinal manipulation (adjusting) methods and cooperative research at a Barnes-Jewish Hospital clinic specializing in musculoskeletal pain in pregnancy.

Source: Logan College of Chiropractic, www.logan.edu

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