For a given, well-defined musculoskeletal disorder, what works best? Is a question like this even fair to ask? More to the point, is such a question answerable? As practicing chiropractors, we get asked this “what works best” question for any...
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Pain is Multifaceted, Your Treatment Should Be Too
Vanessa Morales, DC, is a professor and director of clinical assessment at Parker University in Dallas, Texas. She developed an online clinical curriculum focused on evidence-based practices, utilizing best practice guidelines and applying them to various clinical scenarios, from documentation to...
2022 Opioid Prescribing Guideline Acknowledges Value and Barriers to Non-drug Treatments for Pain
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week released its 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain. CDC offers clinicians 12 recommendations for treating acute, subacute and chronic pain, providing specific guidance for the use...
Chiropractic and Fall Prevention: What We Know
Wren Burton, DC, is completing a research fellowship at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, based at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She is concurrently pursuing a Master of Public Health degree at Harvard T.H....
Looking Forward: Engage 2023, Medicare, Student Leadership
While I try my best to live in the moment, lately I find myself looking forward to 2023 and anticipating coming together as an organization at ACA’s annual meeting, ACA Engage. I look forward to reconnecting with so many special...
Celebrating a Successful NCHM: Chiropractic is ‘On the Frontline for Pain’ Year Round
Throughout October, doctors of chiropractic nationwide joined ACA in celebrating National Chiropractic Health Month (NCHM) 2022 with the theme “Chiropractic: On the Frontline for Pain.” This theme brought attention to research and growing support in the healthcare community for non-drug...
ACA Chiropractors ‘On the Frontline for Pain’
During National Chiropractic Health Month (NCHM), ACA and doctors of chiropractic nationwide have been working together to promote better access to non-drug therapies and remind people that chiropractic’s non-drug approach is on the “Frontline for Pain” management, offering evidence-based treatments...
Rehabilitation for Lower Extremity Tendinopathies
Michael Braccio, DC DACRB, was always interested in treating sports injuries when he launched his career in chiropractic. He has had the opportunity over the years to assist athletes of all levels at events such as the National Senior Games,...
Improving Your Notes: Tips from Someone Who’s Reviewing Them
Morgan Price, DC, is a staff chiropractor at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle Division, as well as a medical legal summarizer with West Coast Chiropractic Experts. In the latter role, she works as part of team that...
The Chiropractic Profession Must Make Its Voice Heard on the Campaign Trail
With Lewis Squires, DC, ACA-PAC chair As the presidential and congressional campaigns begin to heat up, the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) is asking all doctors of chiropractic, chiropractic patients, and anyone else with an interest in the services provided by...
