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From Classroom to Clinic: How Early Exposure to Patients Is Shaping Future DCs | Dynamic Chiropractic
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (944+ words) Ask most chiropractors about their first few months of school and you'll hear about the same gauntlet: the smell of the anatomy lab and months of being buried in the "ologies" of the basic sciences. It was a soul-crushing volume…...
Severe Post-MVA Injuries That Can Be Challenging to Diagnose (Pt. 4) | Dynamic Chiropractic
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (332+ words) Post-concussion syndrome (PCS) is an m TBI that survivors of MVA can develop from blunt-force trauma to the brain as a result of direct impact with a component of the vehicle or another occupant in the same vehicle. Rapid rotational…...
Your Patients Are on Drugs | Dynamic Chiropractic
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (257+ words) What's more, a study in Pediatrics found that during 2013-2014, 19. 8% of children took at least one prescribed drug, with 7. 5% taking multiple prescriptions. 5 As you might expect, painkillers were the most often taken OTC drugs. Atorvastatin (to lower cholesterol), lisinopril (for high…...
Chiropractic for Low Back Pain: Effectiveness vs. Awareness | Dynamic Chiropractic
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (270+ words) The chiropractic profession has never had stronger scientific backing " and yet patient awareness of that evidence remains stubbornly low. Many patients still go to their primary care physician first, walk away with a prescription, and only end up at a…...
Chiropractic Management of a Recalled Cervical Disc Implant | Dynamic Chiropractic
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (448+ words) Over the past two decades, more than 18 million spinal surgeries have been performed in the United States, and cervical disc replacements represent a fair share of those. 3 Long-term outcomes depend heavily on the structural integrity and design of the implanted…...
Chiropractic's Continuing-Education System Is Holding Us Back | Dynamic Chiropractic
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (471+ words) Continuing education is meant to serve a simple purpose: to help healthcare professionals remain current, competent and responsive to evolving evidence. When done well, it strengthens clinical judgment and improves patient care. When done poorly, it becomes a box-checking exercise…...
Corporate Medicine's Attack on Chiropractic | Dynamic Chiropractic
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (1170+ words) How the Attack Was Defined Over the past 5-10 years, chiropractic has achieved broader acceptance among medical providers, third-party payers and the public. Simultaneously, insurers have expanded coverage for conservative spine care while maintaining defined utilization thresholds (e. g. , visit caps). From a…...
Confronting the Threat to Chiropractic Education | Dynamic Chiropractic
3+ week, 4+ hour ago (575+ words) Editor's Note: Article submitted by Dr. Deborah Bushway, vice chair, Association of Chiropractic Colleges (ACC), and president, Northwestern Health Sciences University; and Ms. Anne Marie Munson, ACC executive director. Look for updates to this article as additional information becomes available....
United Healthcare Removing Prior Authorization for Chiropractic | Dynamic Chiropractic
3+ week, 6+ day ago (308+ words) United Healthcare Removing Prior Authorization for Chiropractic'Dynamic Chiropractic. com United Healthcare Removing Prior Authorization for Chiropractic United Health Group, parent company of United Healthcare, has announced sweeping changes to its prior authorization (PA) requirements that will eliminate the requirement for…...
NBCE-FCLB Merger Approved | Dynamic Chiropractic
4+ week, 2+ day ago (267+ words) The proposed merger of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners and Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards was approved by NBCE delegates and FCLB members at their respective annual meetings, held jointly in Atlanta, Ga. , this year. Per the new bylaws,…...