The Osteopathic Research Center

08/19/2026

Help expand the knowledge base for low back pain by participating in the PRECISION Pain
Research Registry. See if you are eligible to be a paid research participant. Screening link in the
comments below. ↓

08/07/2026

Your experiences may be the missing piece. Now enrolling for a low back pain research study!
See if you qualify to be a paid online research participant for PRECISION Pain Research Registry at the UNT Health Science Center.

07/17/2026

07/02/2026

The Osteopathic Research Center will be closed Friday, July 3rd in observation of the 4th of July. We will be back in the office Monday, July 6th, and will respond to email and voicemail messages then.
🌟🇺🇸Have a safe and Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸🌟

07/02/2026

As the didactic portion of the TCOM Summer Program in Clinical Research comes to an end, we're excited to transition into the next phase: continuing clinical research throughout the Fall 2026 and Spring 2027 semesters under the guidance of the Program Director.

Students will continue to: 🔬 Refine research hypotheses

📊 Analyze data
📝 Draft and revise manuscripts
📚 Submit manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed biomedical journals

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06/18/2026

In a 2×2 factorial randomized clinical trial of 1000 adults with acute or subacute low back pain (LBP) at moderate or high risk for chronicity, biopsychosocial clinician-supported self-management delivered by physical therapists or chiropractors resulted in a modest but statistically significant reduction in LBP impact scores at 1 year compared with guideline-based medical care.

More participants in the self-management group achieved at least 50% reduction in LBP impact, and this group performed better on most secondary outcomes, including lower rates of frequent activity-limiting pain, reduced health care and medication use, and greater satisfaction, compared to medical care. Spinal manipulation alone did not differ from medical care for LBP impact, and combining spinal manipulation with supported self-management provided no additional benefit.

Mediation analyses indicated that changes in self-efficacy, kinesiophobia, and pain catastrophizing accounted for 76% of the self-management effect at 1 year.

https://ja.ma/4dZwN3i

06/18/2026

First week of the UNT Health TCOM Summer Program in Clinical Research 2026 ✅️ - already learned so much! Looking forward to diving into journal clubs next week with this amazing group of students 🙌📚✨️

05/19/2026

🌎We are pleased to share that five second-year UNT Health Fort Worth TCOM students who completed the ORC’s Summer Program in Clinical Research 2025 are now co-authors on a study published recently in the International Society for the Advancement of Spine Surgery - ISASS

👏 This is an outstanding accomplishment, as these students have already contributed to a full-length, peer-reviewed publication in an international journal early in their medical training.

You can access the full article here > https://www.ijssurgery.com/content/early/2026/05/12/8893

04/24/2026

Congratulations to all students on their accomplishments!!