Hola! Me llamo Bryan Kent, soy un voluntario doctor para World Spine Care en Republica de Dominicana! For those of you who don’t speak Spanish, I will translate; Hello! My name is Bryan Kent, I am a volunteer doctor for...
ACA Professional Development
Taking an Evidence-Based Approach to Patient Care
By now you are no doubt familiar with the concept of evidence-based clinical practice (EBCP). But what does that really mean for the doctor of chiropractic? How does one actually implement the “the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current...
Upcoming Webinar: The Treatment of Whiplash Associated Disorders: A Clinical Practice Guideline
Representatives of ACA and the Canadian Chiropractic Guideline Initiative together will present a free webinar on guidelines for whiplash-associated disorders on June 20 at 9 p.m. ET. Presenters Dr. Andre Bussieres, Dr. Joel Weisberg and Dr. Michele Maiers take a...
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...
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...
Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (RED-S)
Part of the Evidence in Action series by Palmer College of Chiropractic By Robert Vining, DC, and Breanne Bovee, DC In 1992, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) encouraged and supported scientific inquiry into and public awareness of a...
Metabolic Syndrome Becoming More Prevalent
Metabolic syndrome is a collection of risk factors that increase a person’s chances of developing heart disease, stroke and diabetes. The condition is also known as Syndrome X, insulin resistance syndrome, hypertriglyceridemic waist, and obesity syndrome (also sometimes known as...
Joining the Big League: Chiropractic and Professional Baseball
Professional baseball organizations have come a long way in providing chiropractic to their players. Chiropractic care has been a vital component of helping many of the biggest stars in Major League Baseball (MLB) to play and avoid injuries, but also...
DC2017 Opening Speakers Stress Chiropractic’s Opportunity to Make an Impact
Chiropractors are part of the solution to opioid addiction, high costs of spinal pain treatment and health care collaboration. The chiropractic profession must take bold, innovative steps forward and collaborate with other professions to make an impact on some of...
A POLITE Method for Proprioception
When a patient’s symptoms overwhelm me, I have a system that I developed and that I can count on. I use the acronym POLITE as a reminder of the things I may need to discuss, check or perform with my...
