Exercise for Low Back Pain: What Works Best?

November 16, 2022

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...

Pain is Multifaceted, Your Treatment Should Be Too

November 15, 2022

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...

Choosing Wisely: Separating Facts from Fears

September 7, 2018

It has been just over a year since many in the chiropractic profession first learned that the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) joined more than 80 medical specialty society partners to participate in an initiative that is sponsored by the American...

What I Wish My Commencement Speaker Had Told Me 30 Years Ago

April 25, 2018

Recently I was invited to give the commencement address at my alma mater, Northwestern Health Sciences University (NWHSU). I would like to share that commencement address with you in this blog post, in honor of the NWHSU spring graduating class...

Research Review: Best Practices for Chiropractic Care of Children

November 30, 2017

Article: “Best Practices for Chiropractic Care of Children: A Consensus Update” Authors: Hawk C, Schneider MJ, Vallone S, & Hewitt EG Publication Information: Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics 2016; 39(3): 158-168. Comment from Dr. Shawn Thistle Integrating high-quality evidence...

VA Residency: Anatomy of a Day in Greater Los Angeles

October 17, 2017

Part of a series on the chiropractic residency program in the VA health care system The saying goes: If you’ve seen one VA hospital, you’ve seen one VA hospital. Across the board, there are many similarities between the chiropractic residency...