By Robert C. Jones, DC, ACA President Forty-seven years is a long time to work toward anything. Yet that’s what the chiropractic profession has been doing since 1972, the year chiropractic services were first included in the Medicare program. Back...
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Young Professionals: What Is Your Vision for Practice?
By Robert C. Jones, DC, ACA President It has become quite evident that our profession is at a watershed moment. Some want no differential diagnosing, high-volume, no-insurance practices. Others want integrated, very clinically interprofessional practices that participate in the evolving...
Top 4 Most Commonly Missed Hip Diagnoses
By Tim Bertelsman, DC Problems involving the hip are some of the most frequently undiagnosed or misdiagnosed conditions. When a patient presents with hip pain, chiropractors immediately consider the most probable culprits——like greater throchanteric pain syndrome and osteoarthritis. But what...
Social Factors: A Sometimes-overlooked Opportunity
By Anna-Marie Schmidt, MM, DC, and Robert Vining, DC, DHSc The biopsychosocial model is a widely recommended method of clinical evaluation and management.1–5 The model identifies three important areas. “Bio” refers to evaluating/treating biological problems (e.g., pathology), “psych” refers to psychological...
Population Spine Health Management
Enhancing clinical outcomes for spine pain patients while establishing a progressive identity for chiropractic David J. BenEliyahu, DC Introduction The health care landscape in the United States is rapidly evolving with a shift to new payment models such as “pay...
‘Stop the Bleed’: A Nationwide Call to Action
By Sienna Shoup In the early 1990s, now ACA Board of Governors member Karen Konarski-Hart, DC, MSDPEM, DABCO, was witness to or first on the scene of motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) where the victims were injured. Despite her first aid...
ACA Staff and Consultants Lay Groundwork for New Medicare Parity Bill
By John Falardeau ACA continues its work to re-introduce a bill that would increase access to chiropractic services for Medicare beneficiaries. A similar bill introduced in 2018 is being used as a starting point for a 2019 bill and was...
My VA Experience with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain
By Jamie Zeman, DC “As our understanding of pain within the biopsychosocial model has increased, behavioral interventions for chronic [low back pain] have become commonplace. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has accumulated a sufficient evidence base to justify a “Strong for”...
Research Review: Can Pregnancy-related Pelvic Pain Be Predicted?
Review written by: Dr. Ceara Higgins (for RRS Education) Title: Can a bothersome course of pelvic pain from mid-pregnancy to birth be predicted? A Norwegian prospective longitudinal SMS-Track study Authors: Malmqvist S, Kjaermann I, Andersen K, et al. Publication Information: BMJ Open 2018; 8:...
Opening the Door to Integrated Health Care: A Chiropractic Internship Spotlight
By Sienna Shoup While preparing for graduation, many chiropractic students are carefully considering the next steps in their career. No matter your goals, clinical experience is the key to finding a great job, according to Logan University student Kaelyn Mead....
