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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.

October 2015
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Diagnosis & Diagnostic Equip
When Radiculopathy Isn’t Radiculopathy: A Clinical Series (Pt. 6): Differential Diagnosis
When Radiculopathy Isn’t Radiculopathy

While cervical disc pathology can unquestionably produce radiculopathy, many patients presenting with arm pain, paresthesia or perceived weakness do not exhibit the clinical behavior of true nerve-root compromise. In these cases, failure to differentiate the primary pain generator may lead to unnecessary spinal injections, nerve ablation procedures or surgical consultation despite limited likelihood of benefit.

Ken Kaufman, DC
X-ray / Imaging / MRI
A National Turning Point: N.J. Board Rejects Insurer Medical X-Ray Rules for DCs
A National Turning Point: N.J. Board Rejects Insurer Medical X-Ray Rules for DCs

The New Jersey Board of Chiropractic Examiners has made a precedential decision, concurring with the Association of New Jersey Chiropractors' (ANJC) position paper on chiropractic X-ray guidelines. In plain terms, the board ruled, consistent with the ANJC position, that insurance companies cannot use medical X-ray rules or recommendations, like those written by the American College of Radiology (ACR), to decide whether a chiropractor's X-ray was necessary.

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Jeff Randolph, Esq.
Your Practice / Business
The Relationship Behind the Referral
The Relationship Behind the Referral

For decades, chiropractors have been told the answer to more professional referrals is simple: educate medical doctors about chiropractic. There is some truth in that advice; but it is also incomplete. The modern challenge is not simply getting another healthcare professional to know that chiropractors exist. It is becoming the kind of clinician (and building the kind of professional relationship) that makes collaboration easy and sustainable.

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