Steven Passmore

Dr. Passmore is a Chiropractor and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology & Recreation Management at the University of Manitoba. He also holds adjunct appointments in the College of Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Manitoba, and the Research Department at New York Chiropractic College. His sub-specialization in Kinesiology is human perceptual learning and motor control.

Dr. Passmore explores performance-based outcome measures related to chronic spine pain conditions. His research looks at quantifying human movement to assess pain based on how an individual is able to move. He previously practiced as a chiropractor at the Buffalo Veterans Affairs Medical Center (2007-09), where he treated Veterans with chronic pain conditions and complex comorbidities alongside a multidisciplinary team. Dr. Passmore has aided the Mount Carmel Clinic, a publicly subsidized clinic with a chiropractic program for people in poverty, through research and data collection since 2011, examining how patients with musculoskeletal pain respond to non-pharmacologic intervention.

Dr. Passmore is a member of the Canadian Chiropractic Association (who named him Researcher of the Year in 2020), the Manitoba Chiropractors Association, the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology and the World Spine Care Research Committee. Dr. Passmore has been a co-author on clinical practice guidelines for the conservative management of neck and back pain. In 2019, Dr. Passmore was appointed by the Federal Government of Canada (Health Canada) as the Chiropractic profession’s representative on the External Advisory Panel of the Canadian Pain Task Force.