A number of high-profile cases have frightened the public regarding chiropractic and a supposed risk of vertebrobasilar artery system stroke.
VBA stroke is rare but can occur following violent neck movements that apply unusual forces to the neck. However, a number of studies have already demonstrated that there is no assocation between chiropractic visits and VBA strokes in older patients.
Aaaah—nothing beats the feeling of a good back stretch. At its simplest, inversion therapy does just that—helping the body turn nearly upside down to defeat the effects of gravity and gently decompress the spine, stretch your muscles and reduce back pain. Susan Spinasanta of Spine Universe provides valuable information about inversion therapy that you can share with your patients.
In the vast majority of people reporting back pain, their symptoms have absolutely nothing to do with the discs or vertebrae.
It is not uncommon to hear that the average student graduating from a four-year college today has a portion of debt to pay off. One step farther, postgraduate students have even more. This burden has created hardships for recent graduates and much more to consider when moving into the workforce. Every career path is different, especially if you intend to open your own private practice as a chiropractor. There is a lot of upfront cost that may seem like large hurdles to cross. With the help of ChiroFusion, they are paving the way for students and new graduates to find ways to save money in the beginnings of their chiropractic career and set for success.
Over time, chiropractors do some heavy lifting. While manual tables have long been a standard, more practitioners today are looking at electric, or motorized tables. Whether you’re looking at adjusting treatment tables or need a new decompression table, motorized models can facilitate your treatments and improve both patient and practitioner comfort. ChiroEco.com’s Brandi Schlossberg explains.
Forget about slick, overpriced campaigns. Marketing your practice today comes down to five simple strategies that are easy for any practice to implement. Dr. Noel Lloyd, DC, owner of a consulting service based in Seattle, Wash., shares his best advice on how practices can continue to attract qualified new patients in today’s competitive health care environment.
What goes down must go up. At least, that's the goal when patients present with neck pain caused by hunching over their smartphones and other mobile devices. iTrac Extension Traction therapy can help bring sufferers back to a neutral spine and help create a sustainable patient base for your practice. CBS News shares more about "tech neck" and a recent study on this growing issue.
This article, originally published in Dynamic Chiropractic, was written by Joseph M. Horrigan, DC, DACBSP and originally appeared here.
Over the past decade, chiropractors have begun to significantly expand their practices to include athletes. Even professional athletes have begun to benefit from soft tissue manipulation by sports chiropractors. In an article in Dynamic Chiropractic, Joseph M. Horrigan, DC, DACBSP, examines how chiropractic knowledge of the process of soft tissue injuries can help chiropractors better work with athletes and provide helpful early interventions.
It's no wonder so many of us suffer from neck pain. Tech-neck--a condition caused from hunching over a smartphone--has many of us in permanently forward positions, according to a recent article by Voice of America. To fix this issue, clinicians should advise their patients to try to work and play on their smartphones with a neutral spine and to seek therapy using devices such as iTrac Extension Traction Therapy System. PHS also has a free webinar on this issue: "The Tech-Neck Epidemic."
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