The American Chiropractic Association (ACA) would like to send special thanks to everyone who participated in National Chiropractic Health Month 2024. With this year’s “Plan for a Strong Healthspan” theme, together we raised awareness of the importance of musculoskeletal health...
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Healthspan: Not Easily Defined or Measured, But a Key Goal to Pursue
Healthspan has been described as the period of life spent in good health, free from diseases and disabilities.(1) The concept of healthspan can be confusing. For example, good health has different meanings to different people. And, because health exists in...
Members Need to Know
Your ACA Membership Department is constantly looking for ways to improve your member experience and to keep you informed of important information and opportunities that can enhance your practice as well as advance the chiropractic profession. To that end, below...
An Evolving Understanding of Chronic Pain: Challenges and Opportunities
A Brief History Not so long ago, our understanding of pain was less complicated. Apart from pain associated with psychological disorders, there was essentially one type, presumed to be caused by injury, dysfunction or irritation of a body part. Pain...
Celebrating a Successful NCHM: Chiropractic is ‘On the Frontline for Pain’ Year Round
Throughout October, doctors of chiropractic nationwide joined ACA in celebrating National Chiropractic Health Month (NCHM) 2022 with the theme “Chiropractic: On the Frontline for Pain.” This theme brought attention to research and growing support in the healthcare community for non-drug...
‘Keep Moving’ (and Get Going) on Your National Chiropractic Health Month 2021 Proclamation
It is always with much anticipation that the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) posts the first piece of its National Chiropractic Health Month toolkit each summer. While the bulk of the toolkit is posted in September, the sample proclamation comes a month early...
NCHM 2020: Active, Adaptive…and Pretty Amazing
Texas Chiropractors Lead the Way to a New NCHM Proclamation Record: 51! In planning this year’s National Chiropractic Health Month observance, the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) wanted to provide the chiropractic profession with a way to connect with patients and...
National Chiropractic Health Month: Help America Prevent MSK Conditions While Adapting to the New Normal
This October during National Chiropractic Health Month (NCHM), chiropractors nationwide will do their part to help people navigate the new normal without adding extra aches, pains and injuries to their concerns. With the theme “Active and Adaptive,” NCHM 2020 aims to raise...
Go “Back to Basics” During National Chiropractic Health Month: Here’s How!
Back pain remains a persistent and debilitating problem for many people in the United States and around the world. News that the opioid crisis in America has been fueled in part by the overprescribing of pain medications for low back...
