New York Chiropractic College (NYCC) recently announced it has partnered with the Canandaigua VA Medical Center in Canandaigua, N.Y., to create an integrated care chiropractic residency program – the first such program to be established at a Veterans Administration health care facility, according to the college.
NYCC residents will work alongside VA providers and experience rotations with specialists in neurology, orthopedics, physiatry, pain management, primary care and physical therapy at the medical center. NYCC has an existing relationship with Canandaigua VAMC; it operates several academic and research programs at the center.
When I graduated from chiropractic college in 1981 and started practice, I heard it all, and very little was positive. “You are a quack; you do not know what a subluxation is; you couldn’t get into a real health care program, so you chose the one that is slightly above a mail-order degree; you have no proof that chiropractic works; Are you really licensed?”, and so much more.
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