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Chiropractor helps PGA players work through their aches and pains

By John Wiens DC|July 28, 2010|Sports|

Source Observer-Dispatch
by FRAN PERRITANO

Tom LaFountain hails from a very athletic family, so it would be natural that his career is somehow connected to sports. LaFountain is a chiropractic orthopedist who practices in Utica, but he also has been a member of the PGA sports medicine team since 1997. He has worked with some famous golfers including Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Jim Furyk, Vijay Singh, Davis Love, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer.

Question: You’ve been involved as a chiropractor on the PGA Tour since 1997. How did that come about?

Answer: I had worked for seven years for the U.S. Speedskating Team and had done the Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France, in 1992 and Lillihammar, Norway, in 1994. I became friends with a physical therapist who worked on the U.S. Luge team. He left to work with the PGA Tour after the 1992 Olympics. In 1997, he called me and said that they needed someone to work on the PGA Tour that had a specialty in spinal problems, and that he thought that I would be a good fit. I did a trial tournament at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, signed on and have been there since. (more…)

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Applied Physiotherapy: Rehabilitation Methodology

By Frank M. Painter|July 27, 2010|Diagnosis, Education, Rehabilitation|

Applied Physiotherapy: Rehabilitation Methodology

The Chiro.Org Blog

We would all like to thank Dr. Richard C. Schafer, DC, PhD, FICC for his lifetime commitment to the profession. In the future we will continue to add materials from RC’s copyrighted books for your use.

This is Chapter 13 from RC’s best-selling book:

“Applied Physiotherapy in Chiropractic”

These materials are provided as a service to our profession. There is no charge for individuals to copy and file these materials. However, they cannot be sold or used in any group or commercial venture without written permission from ACAPress.

Chapter 13: Rehabilitation Methodology

The topics of this chapter have been adapted from Volume 1, Chiropractic Rehabilitation, by K. D. Christensen, DC, © 1990, and used here with permission.

INTRODUCTION

Strengthening exercises for the muscular system play an essential role in the chiropractic management of various neuromusculoskeletal disorders. Knowledge of various training methods and exercise techniques are thus among the most important requirements for effective treatment. [1] Properly conducted individual exercise programs help prevent many injuries and serve to shorten the recovery period necessary to restore the patient back to health. [2] Exercise programs can be designed to increase strength, aid weight loss, increase cardiorespiratory efficiency, or simply improve overall musculoskeletal performance.

All exercise programs should have specific goals in mind. The cornerstone of exercise is Davis’ Law, or the (SAID) principle that states that the body makes specific adaptation to imposed demands. [3] The more specific the exercise, the more specific the adaptation. Exercise, therefore, should be as specific as possible to the individual’s goals and needs. (more…)

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Instrument Adjusting: Chiropractic Research

By Frank M. Painter|July 22, 2010|Research|

Instrument Adjusting: Chiropractic Research

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SOURCE: Chiropractic Economics

An overview of the study of instrument adjusting

By Arlan W. Fuhr, DC

Nearly 40 years ago, Drs. Scott Haldeman and Jay Triano, along with a small collection of college presidents, attended the National Institute for Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS) Conference, and, at that time, there were no clinical trials on chiropractic or manipulation.

Those esteemed visionaries lamented how unscientific the chiropractic profession appeared to the greater scientific community, and dedicated themselves to improving the availability of research to provide evidence of chiropractic’s efficacy.

Much progress has been made since that fateful conference in 1974. Today, a commitment to research endures, as doctors have recognized how necessary research is to the ongoing acceptance of chiropractic into traditional medicine.

You will also enjoy reviewing our
Instrument Adjusting Research Page

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Demand Chiropractic in the New National Health Care Plan

By Frank M. Painter|July 21, 2010|News|

Demand Chiropractic in the New National Health Care Plan

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The government is currently deciding the “minimum” benefits that will be provided in the new National Health Care Plan. Chiropractic services are in danger of being left out.

When Congress passed national healthcare legislation in March, they gave the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) the authority to determine the categories of services which must be included in future health plans. The initial categories being considered do not include “neuromusculoskeletal care”, which is the core of what is treated by chiropractors. Unless neuromusculoskeletal care is added as an essential benefit category, chiropractic care will be left out of the plan. (more…)

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TMA v TBCE–TRIAL UPDATE.

By John Wiens DC|July 21, 2010|Legal Action|

Source Texas Chiropractic Association

This situation was reported on in a previous article.

August 16th Trial Date POSTPONED

On Wednesday, July 7, 2010, two matters were heard in the TMA v. TBCE lawsuit…

In the first matter, the TMA and the TMB questioned the TCA’s “standing” to be a party in the suit – they claimed Doctors of Chiropractic have no legal interest in the position taken by the Texas Medical Board under its act about what constitutes the unauthorized practice of medicine. TCA responded with legal argument and testimony on all the reasons why Doctors of Chiropractic would be significantly affected by the outcome in this lawsuit, including being threatened with criminal action, civil action, TBCE discipline, and potentially being shut down if diagnosis is ruled to be exclusive to medical doctors. TCA presented testimony on all of the ways in which the profession and the public would be harmed by the position being taken by the TMA and TMB. The TMA and TMB backed off from any claim that TCA cannot defend the TBCE scope of practice rule. The Judge has yet to rule on the TCA’s standing to challenge the Texas Medical Board’s statute.

The second motion was the TMA’s and TMB’s motion to strike TCA’s request for a jury trial. After extensive argument, the Judge directed the parties to submit questions of law regarding diagnosis to him in a process of cross-briefing that will not be complete for a month. The Judge indicated that, once all the legal questions are resolved, if a disputed question of fact remains, he would not deprive TCA of a jury trial. He did not expressly rule on the motion to strike.

TBCE and TCA attorneys, including appellate attorney former Texas Supreme Court Justice Tom Phillips, felt that the proceeding was productive and not unfavorable.

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Medical Pushback on Provider Nondiscrimination Law

By Frank M. Painter|July 18, 2010|News|

Medical Pushback on Provider Nondiscrimination Law

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SOURCE: Health Insights Today

By Daniel Redwood, DC

Among the important changes in the recently passed health reform law is Section 2706, which makes it illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against providers acting within the scope of their state licenses. Predictably, medical physicians who have benefited from many decades of discrimination now seek to turn back the clock and reinstate the pro-discrimination policies that have served them so well for so long.

Meeting in Chicago in mid-June (as reported in the “Contain and Eliminate” post below) , the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association (AMA) passed a resolution sponsored by the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Society of Anesthesiologists. This new AMA policy directs the organization to use its considerable firepower to overturn the provider nondiscrimination clause, citing its “troubling language” that upsets the “dynamic balance” under which insurers were free to discriminate against a long list of non-MD providers, including optometrists, chiropractors, podiatrists, nurse anesthetists, nurse midwives, psychologists, clinical social workers, acupuncturists, and other groups of licensed health practitioners. (more…)

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