Spotlight on Integrative Care
The Academy of Integrative Health & Medicine (AIHM) hosts its annual conference Oct. 25-29, 2015 in San Diego. Titled "People, Planet, Purpose: Global Practitioners United in Health & Healing," the event features a wide range of speakers representing integrative health care: Deepak Chopra, MD, Daniel Cherkin, PhD, Dean Ornish, MD, Joseph Pizzorno, ND, John Weeks, and others. DC presenters include Drs. Scott Haldeman, Christine Goertz, William Meeker and Datis Kharrazian.
The AIHM "is dedicated to engaging a global community of health professionals and health seekers in innovative education, certification, leadership, inter-professional collaboration, research, and advocacy that embraces all global healing traditions, to promote the creation of health and the delivery of evidence-informed comprehensive, affordable, sustainable person-centered care." To learn more about the academy and the 2015 conference, visit http://aihm.org and read an interview with AIHM Executive Director Nancy Sudak, MD, ABIHM, published in Acupuncture Today.
Tour a World Spine Care Clinic
World Spine Care's flagship clinic in Shoshong, Botswana, is enjoying a steady stream of patients since opening its doors in 2011. Learn more about WSC and the Shoshang clinic in a video tour with Dr. Richard Brown, secretary-general of the World Federation of Chiropractic.
When sports chiropractors first appeared at the Olympic Games in the 1980s, it was alongside individual athletes who had experienced the benefits of chiropractic care in their training and recovery processes at home. Fast forward to Paris 2024, where chiropractic care was available in the polyclinic for all athletes, and the attitude has now evolved to recognize that “every athlete deserves access to sports chiropractic."
It is estimated that 61% of patients with CTS avoid taking surgical options due to postoperative complications and costly surgical procedures. Chiropractic care offers a comprehensive and effective treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome, addressing the condition from multiple angles. Recent studies also have unveiled a game-changing adjunct to chiropractic treatments for CTS: nerve flossing.
Some doctors thrive in a personality-based clinic and have a loyal following no matter what services or equipment they offer, but for most chiropractic offices who are trying to grow and expand, new equipment purchases help us stay relevant and continue to service our client base in the best, most up-to-date manner possible. So, regarding equipment purchasing: should you lease, get a bank loan, or pay cash?
