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Part 1. Understanding disability insurance: Essential insights for doctors of chiropractic

Chiropractic Economics

For example, if a musculoskeletal injury prevents you from performing chiropractic adjustments but you can still teach or consult, you would still receive benefits under an own-occupation policy. Case example Laura, DC, develops severe arthritis in her hands, making it impossible to perform adjustments. Coverage continuity.

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The chiropractic approach to cardiovascular health

Chiropractic Economics

Chiropractic treatments typically involve spinal adjustments, soft tissue therapies, rehabilitative exercises and lifestyle counseling. 3 Chiropractic adjustments aim to correct these misalignments, potentially improving heart function and reducing cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension and inflammation.

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Gut health 101: A guide for DCs to share with their patients

Chiropractic Economics

Patients turn to doctors of chiropractic for a variety of reasons, from aches and pains to injury recovery. However, chiropractic care can benefit patients beyond alleviating back pain and restoring mobility. Reducing inflammation is one of the biggest benefits of chiropractic adjustment.

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Chiropractic maintenance care: How to recognize it, document it and code it

Chiropractic Economics

We tend to have our own dialect in this chiropractic profession. If you eavesdrop on a discussion between any four doctors of chiropractic, you will likely hear at least four different opinions on what these words mean. If you manipulated, indicate the segments adjusted and any therapy performed.

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Extracorporeal shockwave therapy and disc herniations

Chiropractic Economics

Before the 1990s, the only tool we had to address disc herniations was the chiropractic adjustment. A review of these tools would include chiropractic adjustments, spinal decompression therapy, therapeutic exercises and Class IV laser therapy.

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What is Chiropractic?

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Chiropractic care is used most often to treat neuromusculoskeletal complaints, including but not limited to back pain, neck pain, pain in the joints of the arms or legs, and headaches. Manipulation, or adjustment of the affected joint and tissues, restores mobility, thereby alleviating pain and muscle tightness, and allowing tissues to heal.

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Northeast College gets final approval for Long Island DC program

Chiropractic Economics

The Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) has officially approved Northeast College of Health Sciences’ second branch of its doctor of chiropractic program at its new Long Island campus. To date, the Northeast College Levittown site has housed the Ernest G.