ACA’s annual meeting, the National Chiropractic Leadership Conference, brings you cutting-edge, evidence-based education sessions featuring some of the chiropractic profession’s most respected thought leaders and content experts. Many sessions also offer continuing education credits. Here we pose questions to one...
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ACA and APTA Collaborate on Dry Needling Code
Following a successful nine-year collaboration between the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) and the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), a new CPT® code for dry needling will likely be available to providers sometime in late 2019, paving the way potentially for...
If Not Bone Out of Place, Then What?
Learn ACA Survey Course Shows How Chiropractic Theory Has Changed and Where the Science Is Taking Us Is it as simple as bone-out, pinched-nerve, cause dis-ease? For more than a century, chiropractic science—at least as offered by many chiropractors—was frozen...
5 Conditions Chiropractic Care Can Improve During Pregnancy
A recent study found that more than 75 percent of pregnant women experience pregnancy-related low back pain, pelvic pain, or a combination; and that this pain increases as pregnancy progresses.1 Chiropractic care is a safe, effective, and drug-free way to...
Chiropractic Education and Radiography Best Practices
ACA’s Choosing Wisely recommendations are consistent with X-ray guidance in today’s classroom and trusted texts. William* came to my office because he had hip and low back pain that had recently made even walking through the house an arduous task....
Essential Skills for Managing Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is the most common cause of dizziness and vertigo.1-4 The condition is characterized by brief episodes of dizziness, nausea, and/or nystagmus triggered by head movement.5 Over 7 percent of the population will experience BPPV at...
Language Matters: Spanish in the U.S.
Every year Sept. 15-Oct. 15 is recognized as National Hispanic Heritage Month in the United States. According to the United States Census Bureau, there are 58.9 million individuals of Hispanic heritage, making this group the largest minority group at 18.1...
SACA Leadership Conference: A Tribe of Future Leaders
More than 120 SACA members gathered Sept. 7-9 in Milwaukee, Wis., for the 2018 SACA Leadership Conference! An annual event for SACA members, Leadership Conference is a time for empowerment, community building and learning from some of the most influential...
Engaging the Community Through Diversity in Research
While a chiropractic student, I traveled with a group of medical providers to a community in Ghana to provide supplies, assist with health screens in remote villages, and work in a local hospital within a variety of departments. During my...
Learn ACA: You Have a New and Better Choice for Online Continuing Education
When ACA decided to make some transitions last year, we were determined that this process would go deeper than just a new logo design and some brighter website colors. Today, we are committed to “living our values” by putting patients...
