From the *Division of Outcomes and Population Health, Toronto Western Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; †Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ‡Section for Personal Injury Prevention, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; §Institute for Work & Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and ∥Department of Public Health Sciences and the Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Acknowledgment date: August 10, 2004. First revision date: November 22, 2004. Acceptance date: January 11, 2005.
Supported by a research grant from the Chiropractors’ Association of Saskatchewan. Dr. Cassidy is supported by a research fellowship at the University Health Network and was supported by a Health Scholar Award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. Dr. Carroll is supported by a Health Scholar Award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. Dr. Côté is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research through a New Investigator Award and by the Institute for Work & Health by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario. Vicki Kristman is supported by a Doctoral Training Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research in partnership with the Physical Medicine Research Foundation’s Woodbridge Grants and Awards Program and by the Institute for Work & Health by the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario.
The device(s)/drug(s) is/are FDA-approved or approved by corresponding national agency for this indication.
Professional Organization funds were received in support of this work. No benefits in any form have been or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this manuscript.
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