When I hear people say, “You have changed a bit,” I always think about my weight loss struggle. When I was younger, I was overly active. I don’t think I watched a bit of television as I was always running around with my friends. I was unstoppable. When I graduated high school, I weighed in at 95 pounds. When I got married a year later, I still weighed 95 pounds. Then it happened.
This is where my story changes from the average person. (more…)
Chiropractic medicine is an alternative, and often referred to as complementary, approach to treating spine problems through positively affecting a person’s nervous system. The profession believes that a dysfunctional spinal joint interferes with a person’s nervous system which can lead to ill health. Much of the profession is split into different schools of thought; some believe in only performing treatment that is expected to work based on evid (more…)
On a scale of one to ten most chiropractors will answer ten – sometimes even eleven!! Yet, patient education is one of the hardest concepts for chiropractors to manage. Many chiropractors talk to their patients about chiropractic issues or give them brochures but in a society that is largely visual, how much of that information is getting through effectively to the patient?
If only 10% of the population is accessing chiropractic (more…)
Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do good things happen to bad people? Why does life often seem so unfair? And what does all that have to do with your chiropractic practice?
Those, and more, are questions “street scholar” Mark Matteson seeks to answer. In a time when chiropractic income is going down, expenses are rising, and chiropractors are facing a multitude of other issues, Mattesson gives chiropractors techniques t (more…)
Today, there seem to be two very distinct streams of medicine growing before our eyes – conventional medicine and alternative medicine. Conventional medicine is characterized by the ones who practice it – there are people who hold degrees and those who are in allied fields. So there are the general physicians, the ones who have an MD or Doctor of Medicine degree, the DO or Doctor of Osteopathic degree and of course the registered nurses, psycholo (more…)