On Friday, September 11, 1992, the Chiropractic Centennial Foundation's Board of Directors met in Davenport, Iowa to make crucially important decisions regarding the Chiropractic Centennial Celebration in 1995. Due to our publication deadlines, the exciting announcements that will be forthcoming from the Board's meeting were not yet prepared for release.
In addition, on Saturday, September 12, 1992, the Foundation Board met with the Chiropractic Centennial Foundation's Advisory Committee. This meeting has also generated some dynamic plans for the 1995 Centennial Celebration.
Please be watching this page over the next several issues for these precedent-setting announcements.
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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A central challenge in creating our identity is that chiropractic is a method of care, not a technique or procedure. This is an important concept for us to promote. Our patients are treated with lifestyle modification, exercise, nutritional supplements, diet and a whole-body approach to accelerate the natural healing process. We are not simply CMT providers.
The results of a global survey released late last year (2023) unveiled some startling findings among medical and nursing students. The “Clinician of the Future: 2023 Education Edition” surveyed 2,212 students, of which 446 were in the United States, from 91 countries.
