| Titles: | Director, Life Sciences Laboratories |
| Professor | |
| Department: | Research and Innovation |
| bbudgell@cmcc.ca |
I am the Director of Life Sciences Laboratories at Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College and was in full time clinical practice for approximately six years before turning to a career in research. For seven years, from 1993-2000, I had the pleasure of working under the late Professor Akio Sato in the Department of the Autonomic Nervous System at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology. The focus of our research was the neurobiological basis of somatic therapies, most particularly somatoautonomic reflexes. Somatoautonomic reflexes are thought to provide the principal mechanisms by which somatic stimuli, such as back pain or spinal manipulation, modulate the behavior of the internal organs. Between my time with Dr. Sato and returning to CMCC, I was an associate professor for approximately seven years in the Faculty of Medicine at Kyoto University where I worked on both human and animal investigations. My most recent experimental work concerns the effects of somatic stimulation on spinal cord blood flow, and the influence of spinal cord compression on the modulation of somatoautonomic reflexes. Of course, research is not much good without publication, and I have a strong interest in understanding how, as chiropractors, we can improve our publication track record. Consequently, I also have a strong interest in biomedical and health linguistics, and have published several peer-reviewed papers in linguistics and a text on biomedical writing.
Meta-research, biomedical and health literacy, neurophysiology
1. Faye LJ, Budgell BS. Presumptive Spondylogenic Pruritus - a case study. J Can Chiropr Assoc 2020. (Accepted for publication)
2. Budgell B, Bakaa N, Stunden K. (2019) The Canadian Chiropractic Research Enterprise 2012-2017. Toronto: Published privately. Doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.12251.31524.
3. Millar N, Salager-Meyer F, Budgell B. “It is important to reinforce the importance of…” - Hype in reports of randomized controlled trials. English for Specific Purposes 2019 54:139-151.
4. Ammendolia C, Côté P, Rampersaud YR, Southerst D, Schneider M, Ahmed A, Bombardier C, Hawker G, Budgell B. Effect of active TENS versus de-tuned TENS on walking capacity in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis: a randomized controlled trial. Chiropr Man Therap. 2019 Jun 19;27:24.
5. Millar N, Budgell BS. The passive voice and comprehensibility of biomedical texts: an experimental study with 2 cohorts of chiropractic students. J Chiropr Educ. 2019 Mar;33(1):16-20.
6. Ammendolia C, Côté P, Southerst D, Schneider M, Budgell B, Bombardier C, Hawker G, Rampersaud R, the University of Toronto Spine Program Comprehensive non-surgical
treatment versus self-directed care to improve walking ability in lumbar spinal stenosis: A randomized trial. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2018 Dec;99(12):2408-2419.e2.
7. Budgell BS, Yee B. A scoping review of chiropractic management of female patients with infertility. J Can Chiropr Assoc. 2018 Aug;62(2):117-124.
