Casper Nim

MSc, PhD

Spine Centre of Southern Denmark, University Hospital of Southern Denmark

Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark

Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark

Email: casper.nim@rsyd.dk

X: @Casper_Nim

ResearchGate: Casper Nim

 

Research interests and skills

  • Healthcare utilization of people with pain

  • Specificity of spinal manipulative therapy

  • Pediatric pain

  • Informal caregiver burden

 

Ongoing research

Major projects are:

  •  What factors influences healthcare utilization for people with spinal pain

  • What is the burden of informal caregiver to people with spinal pain

  • The importance of being specific with spinal manipulation

  • Exploration of rapid objective clinical assessment: subgroups and associations with clinical characteristics and outcomes

  • Further our understanding of children and adolescents with spine pain in a secondary care hospital setting.

 

Research publications

Nim C, Ziegler DS, Hansen A, O’Neill S. Patient satisfaction with clinical services provided by chiropractic students under supervision compared to licensed chiropractors: An observational study. Journal of Chiropractic Education. 2024 May 18 Available from: https://doi.org/10.7899/JCE-23-6

O’Neill SFD, Nim C, Newell D, Leboeuf-Yde C. A new role for spinal manual therapy and for chiropractic? Part I: weaknesses and threats. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. 2024 Mar 26;32(1):11.

O’Neill SFD, Nim C, Newell D, Leboeuf-Yde C. A new role for spinal manual therapy and for chiropractic? Part II: strengths and opportunities. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. 2024 Mar 27;32(1):12.

Roseen EJ, McNaughton DT, Harrison S, Downie AS, Øverås CK, Nim CG, et al. Association of back pain with all-cause and cause-specific mortality among older men: a cohort study. Pain Med. 2024 May 13;pnae040.

O’Neill S, Nim CG, Chang NHS. Validation of a spring loaded probe for single and repeat pressure pain testing, including public domain specifications for design and manufacture. PLOS ONE. 2024 Jan 12;19(1):e0292809.

Harsted S, Chang NHS, Nim C, Young JJ, McNaughton DT, O’Neill S. Exploring the association between patient-drawn pain diagrams and psychological and physical health variables: A large-scale study of patients with low back pain. Eur J Pain. 2024 Aug 7;

Aspinall SL, Nim C, Hartvigsen J, Cook CE, Skillgate E, Vogel S, et al. Waste not, want not: call to action for spinal manipulative therapy researchers. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. 2024 May 14;32(1):16.

Chang NHS, Nim C, Harsted S, Young JJ, O’Neill S. Data-driven identification of distinct pain drawing patterns and their association with clinical and psychological factors: a study of 21,123 patients with spinal pain. Pain. 2024 May 15;

McNaughton DT, Roseen EJ, Patel S, Downie A, Øverås CK, Nim C, et al. Long-term trajectories of low back pain in older men: A prospective cohort study with 10-year analysis of the MrOS Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2024 Jul 12;glae175.

Nim C, Downie AS, Kongsted A, Aspinall SL, Harsted S, Nyirö L, et al. Prospective back pain trajectories or retrospective recall - which tells us most about the patient? J Pain. 2024 May 6;104555.

Hvidkær IS, Harsted S, Hadizadeh M, O’Neill S, Kawchuk GN, Nim C. Static palpation ain’t easy: Evaluating palpation precision using a topographical map of the lumbar spine as a reference. PLOS ONE. 2024 May 30;19(5):e0304571.

Aspinall SL, Nim CG, Harsted S, Miller A, Øverås CK, Roseen EJ, et al. Presenters at chiropractic research conferences 2010–2019: is there a gender equity problem? Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. 2023 Aug 10;31(1):28.

Hansen A, O’Sullivan K, Nim C, O’Neill S. Comparing treadmill and overground versions of the two-minute walk test in people with low back pain. European Journal of Physiotherapy [Internet]. 2023 Dec 16; Available from: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21679169.2023.2294725

Hansen A, Nim CG, O’Sullivan K, O’Neill S. Testing walking performance in patients with low back pain: will two minutes do instead of six minutes? Disability and Rehabilitation. 2023 Apr 7;0(0):1–5.

Jenkins HJ, Downie A, Wong JJ, Young JJ, Roseen EJ, Nim CG, et al. Patient and provider characteristics associated with therapeutic intervention selection in a chiropractic clinical encounter: a cross-sectional analysis of the COAST and O-COAST study data. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. 2023 Sep 21;31(1):39.

Kawchuk GN, Harsted S, Hartvigsen J, Nyirö L, Nim CG. A two-year follow-up: Twitter activity regarding misinformation about spinal manipulation, chiropractic care and boosting immunity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. 2023 Jan 23;31(1):4.

Keter DL, Bent JA, Bialosky JE, Courtney CA, Esteves JE, Funabashi M, et al. An international consensus on gaps in mechanisms of forced-based manipulation research: findings from a nominal group technique. Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy. 2023 Oct 16;1–7.

Nim CG, Aspinall SL, Cook CE, Corrêa LA, Donaldson M, Downie AS, et al. The effectiveness of spinal manipulative therapy procedures for spine pain: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. 2023 May 24;31(1):14.

Nim CG, Hansen A, Backmann T, Ziegler DS, O’Neill S. Multidisciplinary team-based management approach for secondary-care patients with severe and persistent low back pain: A mixed-method feasibility trial. BMR. 2023 Jun 30;36(4):979–91.

Nim CG, Ravn SL, Andersen TE, Engelsholm E, Hestbech F, Hvidkær IS, et al. No effect of social interaction on experimental pain sensitivity: a randomized experimental study. Pain. 2023 Sep;164(9):2112–21.

Nim CG, Vach W, Downie A, Kongsted A. Do Visual Pain Trajectories Reflect the Actual Course of Low Back Pain? A Longitudinal Cohort Study. The Journal of Pain. 2023 Aug;24(8):1506–21.

Overgaard FG, Mau Brandt SL, Hansen A, Hestbæk L, Nim CG. Children and adolescents seen at a medical unit – A retrospective review of patient records from the Spine Center of Southern Denmark. International Journal of Healthcare Management. 2023 Jun 24;0(0):1–12.

Sørensen PW, Nim CG, Poulsen E, Juhl CB. Spinal Manipulative Therapy for Nonspecific Low Back Pain: Does Targeting a Specific Vertebral Level Make a Difference?: A Systematic Review With Meta-analysis. Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy. 2023 Sep;(9):1–11.

Eybye MN, Madsen SD, Schultz ANØ, Nim CG. Database coverage and their use in systematic reviews regarding spinal manipulative therapy: an exploratory study. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. 2022 Dec 19;30(1):57.

Nim CG, Aspinall SL, Weibel R, Steenfelt MG, O’Neill S. Pressure pain thresholds in a real-world chiropractic setting: topography, changes after treatment, and clinical relevance? Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. 2022 May 12;30(1):25.

Nim CG, Kongsted A, Downie A, Vach W. Temporal stability of self-reported visual back pain trajectories. Pain. 2022 Nov 1;163(11):e1104–14.

Harsted S, Nyirö L, Downie A, Kawchuk GN, O’Neill S, Holm L, et al. Posterior to anterior spinal stiffness measured in a sample of 127 secondary care low back pain patients. Clinical Biomechanics. 2021 Jul 1;87:105408.

Holm LA, Nim CG, Lauridsen HH, Filtenborg JB, O’Neill SF. “Convergent validity of the central sensitization inventory and experimental testing of pain sensitivity.” Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 2021 Oct 19;0(0):000010151520210090.

Nim CG, Downie A, O’Neill S, Kawchuk GN, Perle SM, Leboeuf-Yde C. The importance of selecting the correct site to apply spinal manipulation when treating spinal pain: Myth or reality? A systematic review. Sci Rep. 2021 Dec;11(1):23415.

Nim CG, Kawchuk GN, Schiøttz-Christensen B, O’Neill S. Changes in pain sensitivity and spinal stiffness in relation to responder status following spinal manipulative therapy in chronic low Back pain: a secondary explorative analysis of a randomized trial. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 2021 Jan 6;22(1):23.

Nim CG, O’Neill S, Geltoft AG, Jensen LK, Schiøttz-Christensen B, Kawchuk GN. A cross-sectional analysis of persistent low back pain, using correlations between lumbar stiffness, pressure pain threshold, and heat pain threshold. Chiropr Man Therap. 2021 Dec;29(1):34.

Nim CG, Weber KA, Kawchuk GN, O’Neill S. Spinal manipulation and modulation of pain sensitivity in persistent low back pain: a secondary cluster analysis of a randomized trial. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies [Internet]. 2021 Dec [cited 2021 Mar 10];29(1). Available from: https://chiromt.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12998-021-00367-4

O’Neill S, Holm L, Filtenborg JB, Arendt-Nielsen L, Nim CG. The inhibitory effect of conditioned pain modulation on temporal summation in low-back pain patients. Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 2021 May 26;0(0):000010151520210025.

Axén I, Bergström C, Bronson M, Côté P, Nim CG, Goncalves G, et al. Misinformation, chiropractic, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. 2020 Nov 18;28(1):65.

Côté P, Bussières A, Cassidy JD, Hartvigsen J, Kawchuk GN, Leboeuf-Yde C, et al. A united statement of the global chiropractic research community against the pseudoscientific claim that chiropractic care boosts immunity. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. 2020 May 4;28(1):21.

Kawchuk G, Hartvigsen J, Harsted S, Nim CG, Nyirö L. Misinformation about spinal manipulation and boosting immunity: an analysis of Twitter activity during the COVID-19 crisis. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. 2020 Dec 28(1). Available from: https://chiromt.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12998-020-00319-4

Nielsen J, Glissmann Nim C, O’Neill S, Boyle E, Hartvigsen J, Kawchuk GN. Self-reports vs. physical measures of spinal stiffness. PeerJ. 2020;8:e9598.

Nim CG, Kawchuk GN, Schiøttz-Christensen B, O’Neill S. The effect on clinical outcomes when targeting spinal manipulation at stiffness or pain sensitivity: a randomized trial. Scientific Reports. 2020 Dec;10(1). Available from: http://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71557-y

Nim CG, Lauridsen HH, O’Neill S, Goncalves G, Jensen RK, Leboeuf-Yde C. Chiropractic conservatism among chiropractic students in Denmark: prevalence and consequences. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies. 2020 Dec 4;28(1):64.

O’Neill S, Larsen JB, Nim C, Arendt-Nielsen L. Topographic mapping of pain sensitivity of the lower back – a comparison of healthy controls and patients with chronic non-specific low back pain. Scandinavian Journal of Pain. 2019 Jan 28;19(1):25–37.

Stochkendahl MJ, Nim CG, Boyle E, Larsen OK, Axén I, Kvammen OC, et al. Managing sickness absence of patients with musculoskeletal pain - a cross-sectional survey of Scandinavian chiropractors. Chiropr Man Therap. 2019;27:1.

Stochkendahl MJ, Larsen OK, Nim CG, Axén I, Haraldsson J, Kvammen OC, et al. Can chiropractors contribute to work disability prevention through sickness absence management for musculoskeletal disorders? - a comparative qualitative case study in the Scandinavian context. Chiropr Man Therap. 2018;26:15.