Marietta, Georgia –December 4, 2025- Researchers from Life University’s (Life U) Dr. Sid E. Williams Center for Chiropractic Research have recently published the third in a series of three articles based on a study of motion and forces of side-posture adjustments performed at Life U. It is titled “Kinematic assessment of hip, shoulder, and elbow movements of a chiropractor performing side posture adjustments: results from a biomechanical analysis.” The article is now available online and can be downloaded or read at this link on ScienceDirect before December 6, 2025.
The study profiles the extremity movements of 10 student volunteers most directly involved in side-posture adjustments, as performed by Dr. Linda Mullin Elkins. The implementation, data analysis, results presentation, writing and journal submission process required teamwork by Drs. Brent Russell, Michael Weiner, Ron Hosek, Ed Owens and Gabriel Kelly. The authors also wish to acknowledge the editor and staff of the Journal of Manipulative & Physiological Therapeutics, as well as Drs. Jonathan Bryson, Lori Beth Bryson and Kelly Kang.
Founded in 1974, Life University is a health sciences institution most known for its College of Chiropractic, the largest single-campus College of Chiropractic in the world. Undergraduates can pursue 12 undergraduate degrees; a pre-chiropractic, degree-seeking pathway; and three graduate degrees within the College of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies. Some degree programs are offered to distance learners through the College of Online Education.
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Life U’s 110-acre campus in Marietta, Georgia, just northwest of Atlanta, is home to more than 2,400 undergraduate, graduate and professional students who come from all 50 United States and more than 60 countries.
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Life University is regionally accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) to award baccalaureate, master’s and Doctor of Chiropractic degrees, and also has programmatic accreditation through the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) and the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND). The mission of Life University is to empower students with the education, skills and values necessary for career success and life fulfillment, based on a vitalistic philosophy.
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