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What Is the Chiropractic Summit?

By Frank M. Painter|June 22, 2010|News|

What Is the Chiropractic Summit?

The Chiropractic Summit was created in September 2007 in recognition of the profession’s desire for unity. The first Summit meeting, held in Washington, D.C., was comprised of 13 organizations; three years later, the Summit has 41 members, representing leadership from education, research, regulatory bodies, political action, practice management, chiropractic media and national associations. Within the Summit, there are four key committees: Communications, Documentation, Finance, and Government Relations.

The Group has since released a white paper titled:

“The Path To Change in the US Healthcare System: The Chiropractic Perspective”.

The Executive Summary states: (more…)

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Commonly Used Meridian Points

By Frank M. Painter|June 20, 2010|Acupuncture, Diagnosis, Education, Meridian Points|

Commonly Used Meridian Points

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 3 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 3: Commonly Used Meridian Points

This chapter delineates a few of the many theories attempting to explain the mechanisms of acupuncture point (acupoint) stimulation and meridian therapy. Stimulation of specific points on the body as a mechanism for pain control has achieved great interest in this country in recent years. The majority of studies center on stimulating endorphin production in the body. See Table 3.1. Antidotal and clinical evidence as well as patient records from Oriental cultures point to numerous cases where specific point stimulation has affected visceral and functional disease processes. In the context of physiologic therapeutics, the location, primary indications, and precautions associated with the major points (ie, those most commonly used) are reviewed.

Both Western and Eastern cultures developed systems for treating specific points on the body. It is hoped that future generations will be able to integrate the best of traditional Western and Oriental medicine into a single health-care delivery system for all people. [1]

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Spine Task Force Neck Pain Evidence Summary

By Frank M. Painter|June 19, 2010|Guidelines, News|

Spine Task Force Neck Pain Evidence Summary

The Chiro.Org Blog

Toronto, June 18, 2010 – A new neck pain guide offers a concise summary on both helpful and unhelpful approaches to treating Neck Pain, based on the evidence synthesis completed by the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain. IWH worked with the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, the Ontario Chiropractic Association and some members of the task force’s executive committee to prepare the summary.

In February 2008, Spine published a special edition dedicated to the task force’s reviews on the prevention, prognosis, diagnosis and management of neck pain. After publication, a network of Canadian chiropractic opinion leaders, coordinated by IWH, suggested distilling the evidence into a summary. “It’s exciting to see the chiropractic community take up the work of the task force this way,” says Dr. Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, a task force member and IWH senior scientist. “The Neck Pain Evidence Summary provides a way for health-care professionals to review the evidence easily in their practice, and if they need further information, they can refer to the full research papers.”The task force recommends treatments or further assessments, based on the severity of neck pain. They classified severity into four grades. In the Evidence Summary, a chart outlines the signs and symptoms, and further assessments for each grade. Then both helpful and unhelpful treatments are presented by grade and type of injury. (more…)

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Cost-Effectiveness Revisited

By Frank M. Painter|June 14, 2010|Low Back Pain, Neck Pain, News|

Cost-Effectiveness Revisited

The Chiro.Org Blog

SOURCE: The Chiropractic Report

David Chapman-Smith, LL.B (Hons)

As the United States faces the prospect of major reform to its healthcare system a dramatic new expert study from leading US health economists from Mercer Health and Benefits, and Harvard University analyses chiropractic management of back and neck pain and reports:

“Almost half of US patients with persistent back pain” seek chiropractic care.
“Low-back and neck pain are extremely common conditions that consume large amounts of healthcare resources”.
“Effectiveness: chiropractic care is more effective than other modalities for treating low-back and neck pain”.
“Cost-effectiveness: when considering effectiveness and cost together, chiropractic physician care for low-back and neck pain is highly cost-effective, and represents a good value in comparison to medical physician care and to widely accepted cost-effectiveness thresholds”. (more…)

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New Research Chair

By John Wiens DC|June 10, 2010|Research|

From The Canadian Chiropractic Association Update

The Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation (CCRF) is pleased to announce that Dr. Paul Bruno has been awarded the new and distinguished Research Chair in Neuromusculoskeletal Health in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies at the University of Regina.

The Faculty of Kinesiology and Health Studies is located in the $32 million Centre for Kinesiology, Health and Sport, which opened in 2004. The Centre has outstanding laboratory and research facilities, which includes the fully equipped Neuromechanical Research Centre and houses the Allied Health Centre. The $500,000 investment in this Chair builds on CCRF’s research capacity program across Canada.

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Chiropractic Insights — Right From the Brigadier General

By Frank M. Painter|June 10, 2010|News|

Source: Dynamic Chiropractic

Retired Brigadier General Rebecca Halstead was interviewed several times this past Memorial Day. During one interview, she commented on a recent Johns Hopkins study that revealed musculoskeletal and connective-tissue injuries, not combat injuries, are the top reasons for medical evacuations from Iraq. Halstead then shared the following:

“Think about the conditions that our soldiers are living and performing in. I just recently visited the Connecticut VA center, and I was speaking to a young sergeant who had redeployed from Iraq … He spent two years getting physical therapy for a herniated disc, and finally he was able to get to a chiropractor within the VA system, and I happened to be at the VA center the day he was being helped [by the chiropractor], and he said, ‘Ma’am, think about it; if when we came in off our patrols – if we could see a chiropractor down range, can you imagine how much better we would feel on a daily basis?'” (more…)

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