National Chiropractic Health Month: Be Proactive
October is National Chiropractic Health Month, which means your opportunity to promote this year's theme – "Conservative Care First! – is right around the corner. How are you planning to participate? The American Chiropractic Association, which hosts the annual campaign, offers these and other tips / resources on its website:
The ACA offers a variety of free materials to help promote NCHM 2014, including an NCHM web button / logo, a "Conservative Care First" video, patient education handouts, infographics, and instructions on how to create / send a press release. To learn more, click here.
Collegiate Roundup: Academic Appointments at Parker, Logan
Drs. Ashley Cleveland and Kimberly Paddock-O'Reilly have new academic positions: vice president of Parker College of Chiropractic and vice president of academic affairs at Logan University, respectively. Dr. Cleveland is the former provost / associate dean at Cleveland Chiropractic College – Kansas City; Dr. Paddock-O-Reilly formerly served as associate vice president of new programs and professor at Salem International University in Salem, W.V.
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.
