With the new year and the second session of the 115th Congress now underway, the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) is ready to tackle several important legislative issues on behalf of chiropractors and their patients nationwide. From Medicare equality to health care reform and more, learn which topics ACA will put at the forefront of its advocacy efforts.

'safety net settings' such as community health centers that serve 24 million people across the country—would be an effective and perhaps transformative strategy. And it has been." 

For only the 11th time in the past 45 years, the ACA Council on Sports Injuries and Physical Fitness (the Sports Council) joined with members and colleagues last fall to name the latest inductee into its Hall of Fame (HOF). Two days of educational sessions, social events and poster presentations were highlighted by the induction of Ira A. Shapiro, DC, who received the HOF distinction during the organization’s 2017 Annual Sports Symposium held in Denver.

*Member-Exclusive Content* This is a case study of a patient with severe cervical sprain/strain and segmental dysfunction following trauma of the cervical and thoracic spine with predisposing multiple levels of disc degeneration and herniation. A 46-year-old male presented himself for examination and treatment. He relayed that the weekend before he had been playing with his nephews in the swimming pool, where they were standing on his shoulders and jumping off into the pool. One of the boys slipped and fell on his head, where he reported that he heard several cracking noises and immediately felt pain in his neck. He had severe muscle spasms from the back of his head down to the middle of his shoulder blades. He could not turn his head to the left, right, nor up or down. He reported the pain worsened upon standing and eating.

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While the content of Dr. Stephen Perle’s 2018 McAndrews Leadership Lecture has been intentionally kept under wraps, the title, “Grilled Cheese, Candles and Beer,” has raised a lot of questions (and a few eyebrows, frankly). In this Q&A with Dr. Perle, a respected academic and researcher, ACA Blogs tries to find some answers. To get the whole story, plan on attending the National Chiropractic Leadership Conference in person to hear Dr. Perle’s presentation on Saturday, March 3.