Martha Funabashi, PhD
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Email: mfunabashi@cmcc.ca

CMCC Phone #: 647-805-2024

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Research Interests/Topics

  • Adverse events
  • Biomechanics
  • Clinical studies
  • Manual therapy
  • Patient safety
  • Mixed methods
  • Mechanistic studies


Background

I am passionate about manual therapies, biomechanics, and patient safety. My research includes both basic science and clinical research, using quantitative and qualitative approaches (mixed methods), focused on improving patient outcomes and quality of care.



Publications

ORCiD

Role: Supervisor
Level: Resident
Student Name: Rachel Zevy
Institution: Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Thesis/Project Title: Understanding the characteristics of pregnant patients who seek chiropractic care and the characteristics and practices of the chiropractors who treat them

Spinal manipulation therapy causes lumbar disc herniation: myth or fact?

Advancing Patient Safety for Special Populations: Active Surveillance Reporting to Identify Adverse Events Following Chiropractic Care in Older Adults

Symptom change, including adverse events, following chiropractic care during pregnancy: an observational study

Defining and classifying adverse events following joint manipulation and mobilization: an international e-Delphi study and focus groups

Improving patient safety culture within international chiropractic teaching settings: a qualitative analysis from a mixed method survey

What does it mean to feel “worse”? Patients’ perception of being worse based on changes in pain and disability

Investigating force-time characteristics of prone thoracic SMT and patient self-reported outcome measures – Development of a clinical database

Influence of patients’ expectations and therapeutic alliance on clinical outcome measures in patients with thoracic spine pain – A feasibility study

From manikins to humans – are spinal manipulative therapy force-time characteristics delivered to manikins replicable in humans?

Adjunct Professor, Department of Chiropractic, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada>

Adjunct Professor, Research Center, Parker University, Dallas, Texas, USA

Visiting Scholar, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (6 months)


Damian Keter, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department, United States Department of Veterans Affairs

Diana De Carvalho, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Greg Kawchuk, University of Alberta

Isabelle Page, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Joel Bialosky, University of Florida

John Costi, Flinders University

Katie de Luca, Central Queensland University

Katie Pohlman, Parker University

Lindsay Gorrell, University of Zurich

Michael Schneider, University of Pittsburgh

Stacie Salsbury, Palmer College of Chiropractic


Agency/Organization: Canadian Tri-agency (CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC), New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF)-Exploration Grant
Title: Spinal manipulation therapy causes lumbar disc herniation: myth or fact?
Role: Principal Investigator

Agency/Organization: Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation
Title: Advancing patient safety for special populations: Active surveillance reporting to identify adverse events following chiropractic care in older adults
Role: Principal Investigator

Agency/Organization: Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation, Ontario Chiropractic Association, British Columbia Chiropractic Association, Chiropractor’s Association of Saskatchewan
Title: C-Prior: Implementation of the MAINTAIN instrument for patients with dysfunctional spinal pain – a randomized clinical trial
Role: Primary Investigator

Agency/Organization: Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation
Title: Symptom change, including adverse events following chiropractic care during pregnancy
Role: Co-Investigator

Agency/Organization: Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation
Title: Aligning Chiropractic Care with Aging Needs: Bridging the Practice-Belief Gap
Role: Co-Investigator

Agency/Organization: RAND RPRG
Title: SafetyNET AE Reporting active surveillance for the clinical setting: a feasibility study
Role: Co-Investigator