The growth of complementary therapies is seen by the worldwide acceptance and ascendancy of chiropractic. It has been remarkable.
Chiropractic care is no longer on the fringe of health care. It has gained mainstream acceptance in the spinal musculoskeletal arena, and continues to strive as an alternative approach to nonskeletal complaints. Surveys of employees indicate a greater desire for chiropractic coverage to be included within basic health plans.
With greater research efforts, chiropractic care for some visceral complaints will also become mainstream.
But is research data enough? For our advancement to continue, the application of the data to everyday practice is critical. If better practice models are utilized in patient care, these models must be based on data gained from credible research.
The monthly issue of the Chiropractic Research Review (CRR), a partnership between Dynamic Chiropractic and NCMIC, helps all practicing DCs improve patient care. There is no doubt that the CRR scans more journals for the latest research than any of us could do individually. Thus, the opportunity to garner timely, clinical information in a user-friendly format is within your grasp. Read CRR; utilize CRR; and enjoy your practice like never before.
Arnold Cianciulli, DC
Bayonne, New Jersey
Many relevant diagnostic signs are not performed deliberately by the examiner or by the patient at the examiner’s direction. They are observed as the patient reacts to their condition. Fortin’s finger sign, Minor’s sign, and Vanzetti’s sign are three examples of this principle.
Spearheaded by burgeoning scientific and clinical research literature, psychedelics have reached a level of media coverage and popular interest that has not been seen for over half a century. By “psychedelics,” we are referring to the unique class of substances that includes psilocybin (the active compound found in so-called “magic mushrooms”), LSD, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ayahuasca, 5-MeO-DMT, and mescaline – each of which occurs in the natural world (except for LSD, which is a semi-synthetic compound).
While working at the Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, N.M., one of the primary care physicians stated that imaging every patient prior to receiving chiropractic was not medically necessary. It was at that point I reconsidered the need for the imaging of every patient to avoid malpractice.
