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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. Understanding disability insurance: Essential insights for doctors of chiropractic appeared first on Chiropractic Economics.

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The chiropractic approach to cardiovascular health

Chiropractic Economics

3 Chiropractic adjustments aim to correct these misalignments, potentially improving heart function and reducing cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension and inflammation. Studies have shown that chiropractic spinal manipulation can significantly lower blood pressure.

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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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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.

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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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The day Notre Dame football’s MVP was a DC

Chiropractic Economics

When a single kick stood between the University of Notre Dames football team and the chance to compete in the national championships, it was a doctor of chiropractic, Andrew Jeter, DC, who just might have tipped the scales in favor of the Irish. Typically, that can take anywhere from several weeks to several months.

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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.