Casper Glissman Nim

MSc, PhD

Senior Researcher/Chiropractor, Spine Centre of Southern Denmark, University Hospital of Southern Denmark; Assistant Professor, Department of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark

Email: casper.nim@rsyd.dk

Twitter: @CasperGNim

ResearchGate: Casper Glissman Nim

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Research interests and skills

  • Development of spinal pain over time

  • The specificity of spinal manipulation

  • Children and adolescent with spine pain in a hospital setting

 

Ongoing research

  • Gender distribution of speakers at chiropractic conferences (CARL project with Sasha Aspinall, Eric Roseen, Casper Glissman Nim, Cecilie K Øverås, Steen Harsted, James Young, Amy Miller, Greg Kawchuk, and Jan Hartvigsen)

  • Spine pain trajectories: Stability, comparison between retrospective and prospective data, associations with the care course and clinical information

  • 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.

  • Quantitative sensory testing: Validation and segmental importance

 

Research publications

Pressure pain thresholds in a real-world chiropractic setting: topography, changes after treatment, and clinical relevance? (2022). Nim, Casper G. and Aspinall, Sasha L. and Weibel, Rasmus and Steenfelt, Martin G. and O’Neill, Søren. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 30(1) https://doi.org/10.1186/s12998-022-00436-2 (CARL)

Temporal stability of self-reported visual back pain trajectories (2022).  Nim, Casper Glissmann and Kongsted, Alice and Downie, Aron and Vach, Werner. PAIN 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000002661 (CARL)

Nim, C. G., Downie, A., O’Neill, S., Kawchuk, G. N., Perle, S. M., & Leboeuf‑Yde, C. (2021). The importance of selecting the correct site to apply spinal manipulation when treating spinal pain: Myth or reality? A systematic review. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 23415. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02882-z (CARL)

Nim, C. G., O’Neill, S., Geltoft, A. G., Jensen, L. K., Schiøttz‑Christensen, B., & Kawchuk, G. N. (2021). A cross-sectional analysis of persistent low back pain, using correlations between lumbar stiffness, pressure pain threshold, and heat pain threshold. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 29(1), 34. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12998-021-00391-4 (CARL)

Nim, C. G., Weber, K. A., Kawchuk, G. N., & O’Neill, S. (2021). Spinal manipulation and modulation of pain sensitivity in persistent low back pain: A secondary cluster analysis of a randomized trial. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 29(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12998-021-00367-4 (CARL)

Holm, L. A., Nim, C. G., Lauridsen, H. H., Filtenborg, J. B., & O’Neill, S. F. (2021). “Convergent validity of the central sensitization inventory and experimental testing of pain sensitivity.” Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 0(0), 10151520210090. https://doi.org/10.1515/sjpain-2021-0090

Harsted, S., Nyirö, L., Downie, A., Kawchuk, G. N., O’Neill, S., Holm, L., & Nim, C. G. (2021). Posterior to anterior spinal stiffness measured in a sample of 127 secondary care low back pain patients. Clinical Biomechanics, 87, 105408. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinbiomech.2021.105408 (CARL)

O’Neill, S., Holm, L., Filtenborg, J. B., Arendt‑Nielsen, L., & Nim, C. G. (2021). The inhibitory effect of conditioned pain modulation on temporal summation in low‑back pain patients. Scandinavian Journal of Pain, 0(0), 000010151520210025. https://doi.org/10.1515/sjpain-2021-0025

Nim, C. G., Kawchuk, G. N., Schiøttz‑Christensen, B., & O’Neill, S. (2021). 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, 22(1), 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-020-03873-3 (CARL)

Kawchuk, G., Hartvigsen, J., Harsted, S., Nim, C. G., & Nyirö, L. (2020). Misinformation about spinal manipulation and boosting immunity: An analysis of Twitter activity during the COVID‑19 crisis. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 28(1), 34. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12998-020-00319-4 (CARL)

Nim, C. G., Kawchuk, G. N., Schiøttz‑Christensen, B., & O’Neill, S. (2020). The effect on clinical outcomes when targeting spinal manipulation at stiffness or pain sensitivity: A randomized trial. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71557-y  (CARL)

Nim, C. G., Lauridsen, H. H., O’Neill, S., Goncalves, G., Jensen, R. K., & Leboeuf‑Yde, C. (2020). Chiropractic conservatism among chiropractic students in Denmark: Prevalence and consequences. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 28(1), 64. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12998-020-00352-3

Nielsen, J., Glissmann Nim, C., O’Neill, S., Boyle, E., Hartvigsen, J., & Kawchuk, G. N. (2020). Self‑reports vs. Physical measures of spinal stiffness. PeerJ, 8, e9598. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9598

O’Neill, S., Larsen, J. B., Nim, C., & Arendt‑Nielsen, L. (2019). 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, 19(1), 25–37. https://doi.org/10.1515/sjpain-2018-0113

Stochkendahl, M. J., Nim, C. G., Boyle, E., Larsen, O. K., Axén, I., Kvammen, O. C., & Myburgh, C. (2019). Managing sickness absence of patients with musculoskeletal pain ‑ a cross‑sectional survey of Scandinavian chiropractors. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 27, 1. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12998-018-0230-y

Stochkendahl, M. J., Larsen, O. K., Nim, C. G., Axén, I., Haraldsson, J., Kvammen, O. C., & Myburgh, C. (2018). Can chiropractors contribute to work disability prevention through sickness absence management for musculoskeletal disorders? ‑ a comparative qualitative case study in the Scandinavian context. Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 26, 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12998-018-0184-0