*Member-Exclusive Content* There’s no doubt most all of us will develop some degree of decline in physical and cognitive capacity as we age. As America’s population matures, the need for health and wellness facilities and services will continue to increase....
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ACA-PAC Board Needs You: Apply Today
The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) is seeking interested volunteers to fill a vacant seat on the ACA-Political Action Committee (ACA-PAC) as officer-at-large. ACA-PAC is the voice of the ACA and doctors of chiropractic in the political arena. It consists of...
How Is the Clinical Compass Valuable to Your Practice?
The mission of the Clinical Compass is to provide consistent and widely adopted chiropractic practice information and to perpetually distribute and update this data as necessary so that consumers and others have reliable information on which to base informed healthcare...
Talking to People About Chiropractic Safety
*Member-Exclusive Content* It’s the issue that seems to dog the chiropractic profession—can chiropractic neck adjustments cause strokes? In episodes that range from a badly biased and ambiguous report from an otherwise respected organization like the American Stroke Society, to the...
U.S. Healthcare Payment Systems: Frequently Asked Questions
*Member-Exclusive Content* Health care payment systems in the United States have come a long way from the traditional fee-for-service model that dominated in year’s past. Today, numerous new payment models have emerged that aim to increase cost efficiency and enhance...
A Student’s Perspective: Last-Year Concerns
*Member-Exclusive Content* Last week was my first week treating the general public—instead of just other students—at our university clinic. It was completely frightening. When I was treating students at the university, I didn’t have any acute patients or a patient...
Take the Clinical Compass Chiropractic Guideline for Low Back Pain Challenge
In my last blog post, I talked about the unprecedented opportunity the chiropractic profession has to make a critical difference in areas of great public health impact, such as low back pain. I strongly believe that if we do the...
Pediatrics Council Invites Doctors, Students to Enter Research Competition
*Member-Exclusive Content* The American Chiropractic Association’s Council on Chiropractic Pediatrics (ACA-CCP) is excited to announce a research competition open to all doctors of chiropractic and chiropractic students. ACA and SACA members are invited to write a narrative literature review on...
Bill Would Include Chiropractors in U.S. Public Health Service
Those of you who attended the 2017 National Chiropractic Legislative Conference Congressional Reception will likely recall Rep. Gene Green’s (D-Texas) enthusiastic support for the profession, backed up by his intent to introduce legislation that would open up the U.S. Public...
The Evolution of Low Back Pain Treatment
*Member-Exclusive Content* In February 2017, the American College of Physicians (ACP) published a guideline calling for both physicians and patients to consider non-pharmacological options first when treating acute, subacute, and chronic low back pain (LBP). Specifically, it recommends superficial heat,...
