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Medical Physicians Ignore Low Back Pain Guidelines

By Frank M. Painter|February 11, 2010|Guidelines, Low Back Pain, News|

Medical Physicians Ignore Low Back Pain Guidelines

A February 2010 study of 3,533 general practice low back pain patients found that many providers are not following their own evidence based guidelines. [1] Guidelines do provide the overall best evidence but are not meant to be a cookbook approach to care. There is also a need for flexibility so the physician can deviate from guidelines when the specific needs and desires of the patient dictate. In addition, the clinical judgment of the physician may override the guidelines when in a particular patient’s case they are inappropriate.

There is, however, reason for concern when risky and or expensive unneeded procedures are used. The medical guideline for acute low back pain call for advice and analgesics, but 80% of the 3,533 patients in this study were not given advise and 82% were not given analgesics. More harmful medications that are not recommended in the guidelines were prescribed, with 37% getting anti-inflammatory drugs and ~20% opiods. (more…)

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Organized Medicine Attempts To Deny Chiropractors Right To Diagnose in Texas

By Frank M. Painter|February 4, 2010|News|

Organized Medicine Attempts To Deny Chiropractors Right To Diagnose in Texas

The Chiro.Org Blog

The AMA has joined the TMA (Texas Medical Association) in trying to challenge Texas chiropractor’s “right” to diagnose. They are doing this under the guise of trying to halt expansions of the scope of practice of various alternative pratitioners. The AMA News web site currently brags that they are involved in fighting more than 300 scope-increasing bills around the country. (more…)

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Announcement

By Frank M. Painter|February 3, 2010|News|

The members of Chiro.Org’s Board met last night for our yearly Board meeting.

To celebrate our almost 15 years of success, we decided to donate $2500 towards chiropractic research. This year’s gifts includes a $1250. contribution to AECC (Anglo European College of Chiropractic’s Research Department), to further basic chiropractic research, and another $1250 to the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association to support research demonstrating the benefits of chiropractic care for children. (more…)

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Lancet Retracts Controversial Autism Paper

By John Wiens DC|February 3, 2010|News|

Retraction of 1998 Wakefield Study May Not Sway Those Who Fear Vaccine-Autism Link
Source ABC News

It was the scientific paper that served as a central pillar for the idea that vaccination could increase children’s risk of developing autism.

Now, with a formal retraction from the Lancet, the medical journal which in 1998 published this piece of research by Dr. Andrew Wakefield, most researchers will view the study as if it had never been published in the first place.

In a statement explaining its retraction of Wakefield’s paper, the Lancet said: “Following the judgment of the U.K. General Medical Council’s Fitness to Practice Panel on Jan. 28, 2010, it has become clear that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield et al are incorrect … in particular, the claims in the original paper that children were ‘consecutively referred’ and that investigations were ‘approved’ by the local ethics committee have been proven to be false. Therefore we fully retract this paper from the published record.” (more…)

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Chiropractic and Stroke Incidence

By Frank M. Painter|January 30, 2010|Chiropractic Care, Education, Stroke|

Chiropractic and Stroke Incidence

The Chiro.Org Blog

SOURCE: Chiro.Org’s Stroke and Chiropractic Page

Recent reports of individuals suffering strokes proximal to receiving chiropractic care are sensationalized by the media all out of proportion to their actual frequency. Although medicine admits that tens of thousands die needlessly from medical accidents, even from things as innocuous as venipuncture, that doesn’t excuse chiropractors from their duty to protect our patients.

The Stroke and Chiropractic Page was crafted to keep our profession abreast of information that may help predict (and perhaps prevent) strokes.

This Introduction reviews those physical findings that may indicate whether a new or existing patient is in the prodromal state of stroke onset, so that we can refer them for co-management. I hope you will read this information closely.

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How To Do An Effective Online Search

By Frank M. Painter|January 29, 2010|Education|

When you want to find something online, it can be overwhelming to get thousands of responses. A typical example is a search for the term “chiropractic” on Google. You will get 14,200,000 responses, in no particular order. Who’s got the time to weed through that?

That’s why something called Boolian Logic can help you get the information you want faster. The idea is to string together several search words into a “search string”. Below is a list of the 4 Boolian “operators”, with a simple explanation of how you can use them to do a much more specific search. (more…)

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