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Tiger Woods Flunks Chiropractic 101

By John Wiens DC|May 13, 2010|Sports|

Oh that crafty Tiger Woods.

His chiropractic/diagnostic skills are about as good as his golf game these days.

The man who left us with a self-diagnosed “bulging disc” in his neck last Sunday, the man who has become his own pain in the neck, has exactly that.

Woods said on Wednesday that tests showed an inflamed neck joint that causes pain and makes it hard to turn his head. This latest Tiger trauma will require little more than medicine, massage, and rest.

There were no tests conducted on his inflamed scorecards from his past two tournament.

Woods withdrew from the Player’s Championship Sunday after seven holes.

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New Report Warns About Chemicals and Cancer

By Frank M. Painter|May 6, 2010|Health, News|

SOURCE: The New York Times: May 5, 2010

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

The President’s Cancer Panel is the Mount Everest of the medical mainstream, so it is astonishing to learn that it is poised to join ranks with the organic food movement and declare: chemicals threaten our bodies.

The cancer panel is releasing a landmark 200-page report on Thursday, warning that our lackadaisical approach to regulation may have far-reaching consequences for our health. (more…)

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Do health care professionals perform hand hygiene? UI has an app for that

By John Wiens DC|May 6, 2010|News|

Source PhysOrg.com

The availability of the free application on May 5 at the iTunes store coincides with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) “5 Moments for Hand Hygiene” campaign. The campaign, which is part of the WHO’s “Save Lives: Clean Your Hands” annual initiative, spells out the standard opportunities for health care workers to practice hand hygiene.

“iScrub simplifies the time-consuming and error-prone process of recording observations, analyzing the data, and feeding results back to health care professionals and managers,” said Philip Polgreen, M.D., one of the application’s developers and an assistant professor of internal medicine at the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine.
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Doctors of Chiropractic and Patients Included in UnitedHealth Group Settlement

By John Wiens DC|May 6, 2010|News|

Source The American Chiropractic Association

A record-breaking settlement has been reached between the American Medical Association, et al. and UnitedHealth Group—the nation’s largest health insurer— for 15 years of artificially low payments for out-of-network services. More than $350 million has been allocated to compensate impacted providers and subscribers, including doctors of chiropractic and their patients, according to the American Chiropractic Association (ACA).

Affected providers and subscribers should have received mailings from UnitedHealth Group that include an overview of the settlement, instructions for filing a claim for payment and proof of claim forms. Claims for payment must be filed by Oct. 5, 2010. Anyone filing objections to the settlement or opting out of the settlement must do so by July 27, 2010.

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Chiropractic Research Capacity in Canada in 2008

By John Wiens DC|May 4, 2010|Research|

Source Journal of the Canadian Chiropractic Association December ’09 (PDF)

Introduction

These findings are based on a two part survey that went out to Canadian chiropractors in the field and then to chiropractors with post-graduate training.

The main findings of the first part of the survey were that there were 94 chiropractors who either have or are in the process of completing a master’s degree, along with 30 who either possess or are completing a PhD. Most of these are found in Ontario and Quebec.

The second part of the survey found that there were 20 full time chiropractic researchers and 55 part time researchers. Again, the vast majority of these were found in Ontario and Quebec. Among the full time researchers 8 were conducting clinical research, 9 were doing epidemiological research, 6 were neurophysiologists, and there were 4 biomechanists. Ten of the full time researchers indicated receiving government funding for their work, 5 received institutional funding, 3 received private funding, and 4 received funding from the profession.

Conclusion

While still few in numbers, it appears that a core group of highly dedicated researchers with clinical training in chiropractic is ready to undertake collaborative research. Professorships and Research Chairs in major universities across the country are now being established, including the recently announced position at McGill University. With such opportunities , many more researchers and trainees are expected to consider a fulltime career in research.

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A Constitutional Challenge to DCs Diagnosing – What This Means for Health Care

By John Wiens DC|April 27, 2010|Legal Action|

A Constitutional Challenge to DCs Diagnosing –
What This Means for Health Care

The Chiro.Org Blog

SOURCE: ProviderLaw.Com

By Keith Pendleton, JD

I. The Lawsuit in Texas

In January, 2006, the American Medical Association (AMA) announced an industry consortium known as the “Scope of Practice Partnership” (SOPP).

The consortium was originally formed by the AMA, along with 6 national medical specialty societies and 6 state medical associations, including the Texas Medical Association (TMA).

As part of its formation, the original members of SOPP agreed that they needed to begin reigning in the scope of practices of various professions, the chiropractic profession included.

Specifically, SOPP members agreed that it was “necessary to concentrate the resources of organized medicine to oppose scope of practice expansions by allied health professionals that threaten the health and safety of the public … through a wide-range of efforts, including … judicial advocacy….” (emphasis added).

“Organized medicine?” Are we talking about a nationwide campaign here?

“Threaten the health and safety of the public?” Is this really what this is about?

As part of the announcement, organized medicine resolved to challenge the scope of practice of various health care professions in a comprehensive, nationwide, consistent manner, including through use of the courts.
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