Medical Errors Kill 15,000 Medicare Patients a Month The Chiro.Org Blog SOURCE: AOL Health A new report from the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General reveals that 13 percent of Medicare patients in the U.S. experience an adverse event each month in American hospitals, and some 15,000 of them die [...]

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This new, single blinded placebo controlled study, conducted by the Faculty of Medicine at Mansoura University, conclusively demonstrates that maintenance care provides significant benefits for those with chronic low back pain. [1]

Participate in Practice-Based Research with a Focus on Wellness The Chiro.Org Blog SOURCE: ChiroACCESS ~ January 21, 2011 Dr. Cheryl Hawk [*] invites all DCs to participate in a new practice-based research program: ICON — The Integrated Chiropractic Outcomes Network. It is open to any licensed chiropractic practitioner, and eventually we hope to include other [...]

Finally! FDA Limits Acetaminophen in Prescription Analgesics The Chiro.Org Blog From Medscape Medical News January 13, 2011 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced that it is asking drug makers to limit the amount of acetaminophen in prescription combination pain relievers to no more than 325 mg per tablet or capsule to [...]

Primary Care MDs Decline Training In Pain Management The Chiro.Org Blog The following survey reveals a depressing new trend in medicine. Although primary care physicians (PCPs) see the largest percentage of chronic pain patients (52%), they are also the least likely to feel confident in their ability to manage musculoskeletal and neuropathic pain conditions, and [...]

Source Anglo-European College of Chiropractic Postgraduate students at the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC) are enrolling on the AECC’s Master of Science Advanced Professional Practice (Clinical Sciences) following a unique agreement forged between the two institutions. Canadian-based students entering the three-year programme have access to a CMCC Research Supervisor and also benefit from being able [...]

Interview with Dr David Sackett, epidemiologist, pioneer in evidence-based medicine. Share this article: Recommend on Facebook Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

SPECT/CT Imaging of the Lumbar Spine in Chronic Low Back Pain The Chiro.Org Blog Chiropractic & Manual Therapies 2011 (Jan 11); 19: 2 ~ FULL TEXT Michael H. Carstensen, Mashael Al-Harbi, Jean-Luc Urbain, Tarik-Zine Belhocine Department of Medical Imaging, St Joseph´s Hospital, 268 Grosvenor Street, N6A 4V2, London, Ontario, Canada docmike@nl.rogers.com Abstract Mechanical low back [...]

Historical Overview and Update on Subluxation Theories The Chiro.Org Blog Journal of Chiropractic Humanities 2010 (Dec); 17 (1): 22–32 By Howard Vernon, DC, PhD Introduction Manual therapy has, arguably, best been described by a Polish medical manipulation practitioner, Arkuszewski, [1] as “a mechanical therapy with reflex effects.” The phrase mechanical therapy can be further characterized [...]

Chiropractic: A Profession Coming of Age ~ An Interview with David Chapman-Smith, LL.B. The Chiro.Org Blog SOURCE: Health Insights Today David Chapman-Smith, the Secretary-General of the World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC), is a New Zealand-born attorney who now resides in Toronto, Canada. Chapman-Smith’s introduction to chiropractic came when he represented the New Zealand Chiropractic Association [...]

Whiplash, aka Cervical Acceleration – Deceleration Injury, aka, Whiplash – Associated Disorder The Chiro.Org Blog A rose by any other name can still be a thorny experience for our patients, no matter what you call it. Chiropractic care is very effective at reducing the pain, and for promoting healing, following a whiplash injury. The Whiplash [...]