Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Autism Spectrum Disorder

Table 13

Chiropractic care in ASD.

Author	Year	Type and duration of study	Sample size	Type of intervention	Comparators	Outcome measure	Findings	Comments
Aguilar et al. [91]	2000	Open label; Duration: 9 months		Chiropractic care	None	Modified Autism Checklist CARS	Improvement	No control group; Open label design; Improvement potentially due to regression to the mean or normal development
Khorshid et al. [92]	2006	Randomized, parallel group; Duration: 3–5 months	(M 13; F 1); Age: 4–16 years	Atlas Orthogonal Upper Cervical SMT	Full spine SMT	ATEC	Improvement (more in AO)	Small sample size; No control group; Blinding not reported

ASD, autism spectrum disorder; ATEC, Autism Treatment Evaluation Checklist; CARS, Childhood Autism Rating Scale; SMT, Spinal Manipulative Therapy.