Adjustment of Lower Extremity Joint Subluxation-Fixations The Chiro.Org Blog We would all like to thank Dr. Richard C. Schafer, DC, PhD, FICC for his lifetime commitment to the profession. In the future we will continue to add materials from RC’s copyrighted books for your use. This is Chapter 1 from RC’s best-selling book: “Lower Extremity [...]

Where is the money going? A couple of recent articles on the Dynamic Chiropractic website provide the answer. End of an Era: FCER Decides on Self-Liquidation announces that “The Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research (FCER) will self-liquidate, meaning the organization will cease operations after serving the chiropractic profession for more than 60 years. The [...]

Introduction to Symptomatology The Chiro.Org Blog We would all like to thank Dr. Richard C. Schafer, DC, PhD, FICC for his lifetime commitment to the profession. In the future we will continue to add materials from RC’s copyrighted books for your use. This is Chapter 1 from RC’s best-selling book: “Symptomatology and Differential Diagnosis” These [...]

By Jeffrey Tucker, DC, DACRB Thanks to Dynamic Chiropractic for access to this article! When I was in chiropractic college more than 25 years ago, I was taught to use isometric exercises for whiplash trauma recovery. The technique was pretty simple: Place one hand on the back of your head and push the hand and [...]

An Introduction to the Principles of Chiropractic The Chiro.Org Blog We would all like to thank Dr. Richard C. Schafer, DC, PhD, FICC for his lifetime commitment to the profession. In the future we will continue to add materials from RC’s copyrighted books for your use. This is Chapter 1 from RC’s best-selling book: “Basic [...]

Biomechanics: Body Alignment, Posture, and Gait The Chiro.Org Blog We would all like to thank Dr. Richard C. Schafer, DC, PhD, FICC for his lifetime commitment to the profession. In the future we will continue to add materials from RC’s copyrighted books for your use. This is Chapter 4 from RC’s best-selling book: “Clinical Biomechanics: [...]

2 and 2 is? [Humor Alert!] The Chiro.Org Blog The news media has been having a LOT of fun reporting on the Congressional Health Care Overhaul lately, so I will too. Chiropractic’s *scientific critics* state we don’t have the kind of statistics they (grin) rely on, so we shouldn’t toot our own horn like they [...]

The Evaluation of Joint Trauma The Chiro.Org Blog We would all like to thank Dr. Richard C. Schafer, DC, PhD, FICC for his lifetime commitment to the profession. In the future we will continue to add materials from RC’s copyrighted books for your use. This is Chapter 1 from RC’s best-selling book: “Upper Extremity Technic” [...]

The following is taken from TheScientist.com’s Blog entry from Friday (09/18/2009) Posted by Margaret Guthrie: “The book presents detailed nutritional information on food plants, including insight into hybridization and genetic modification, such as genetic engineering to reduce cell-wall softening in tomatoes, one of the world’s most popular “vegetables.” …… Details of vegetative components are given, [...]

The Rationale of Physiotherapy in Chiropractic The Chiro.Org Blog We would all like to thank Dr. Richard C. Schafer, DC, PhD, FICC for his lifetime commitment to the profession. In the future we will continue to add materials from RC’s copyrighted books for your use. This is Chapter 1 from RC’s best-selling book: “Applied Physiotherapy [...]

An interesting perspective from Wired This Week In Tech Events that Shaped the Wired World by Tony Long September 18th, 1895: The first chiropractic adjustment is performed, and a new field of medicine is born, along with a healthy number of skeptics. It was the age of the talented dilettante, and the world’s first chiropractor [...]

For CAs: Introduction to a Rewarding Career The Chiro.Org Blog We would all like to thank Dr. Richard C. Schafer, DC, PhD, FICC for his lifetime commitment to the profession. In the future we will continue to add materials from RC’s copyrighted books for your use. This is Chapter 1 from RC’s best-selling book: “The [...]

Association of NJ Chiropractors Brings Class Action Suit against Aetna for Post Payment Audit Practices The Association of New Jersey Chiropractors (ANJC), one of the largest chiropractic state associations in the nation, today announced that it has filed a lawsuit against Aetna seeking nationwide relief on behalf of chiropractors and other healthcare professionals. The ANJC [...]

Source Quad-Cities Online Posted Online: Sept. 10, 2009 Palmer Receives HRSA Grant Award to Study Co-Management of Older Adults With Low Back Pain by M.D.s and D.C.s (Davenport, IOWA) The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded a three-year grant for approximately $1.3 million to the Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research (PCCR) for [...]

Source Risk and Insurance Online Individuals with musculoskeletal disorders who received chiropractic care or physical therapy had lower health care costs and were less likely to have surgery than employees who did not receive those services, according to a recent report. The findings come from a one-year pilot program designed by Wellmark Blue Cross and [...]

Let’s Talk Supplements: Part II The Chiro.Org Blog In the last year there has been a disappointing series of nutritional studies published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. JAMA was rabidly opposed to supplementation until 2002, when they finally published an excellent article that proposed that taking supplements could reduce the risk of [...]

Let’s Talk Supplementation The Chiro.Org Blog The debate over using supplements vs. getting “all you need from your diet” has raged on for years. Competent medical professionals are actually telling people that they get everything they need from their diet. Seriously? What exactly is the “minimum daily requirement” of vitamins? A quick review of the [...]