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Teamwork Is A Must
What teams are you a part of? My guess is that you are a part of many teams and most have nothing to do with sports. If you are married, serve any community organizations, help at your church or are active in your professional state organization, then you are part of...
Conservative Care Working As One
Chiros and PTs should NOT work together. This is what some of us were told right? The stigma is still out there. The friction and disapproval between professions is still out there. Some of us were taught in school why the other side is crazy. Why the other side...
The Use of Chiropractic Manipulative Treatment (CMT) and Manual Therapy On the Same Patient: Proper Documentation
American Medical Association (AMA) coding guidelines dictate that it is only appropriate to bill for Chiropractic Manipulative Treatment (CMT) and manual therapy (CPT code 97140) for the same patient on the same visit under certain circumstances. Therefore, some...
Community Care: Family Care
As chiropractors, we care for the individuals that make up families in our community which in turn takes care of our families. Providers are charged with the great responsibility of caring for individual people with individual needs and individual histories. These...
Taking the First Step
I’m not running unless there’s a really big animal chasing me and I’m slower than the person I’m with. For many years that was definitely my motto for nearly any exercise. A couple years back, playing in my church league softball and rec basketball league was the only...
From Athletes to Weekend Warriors, What We Can Learn From Rehabilitation And Recovery
My favorite sporting event, The World Cup, is well underway and will continue through mid-July. It is a thirty-two nations team tournament that groups 4 nations into 8 separate groups into a round robin format with the top two of each group moving forward into single...
10% Happier in Just 10 minutes a Day
Do you practice meditation? Do you recommend meditation to your patients, staff or loved ones? If not, why? If so, I hope it’s going well. Dan Harris was a true skeptic who found peace of mind and true stress reduction through the practice of meditation. Harris, a...
Nutrition: Where Do You Start?
One of the biggest complaints I hear about nutrition is, where do you start and who do you listen to? There is so much information out there it’s hard to figure out what works best for you or who to listen to. Aunt Margie likes the banana diet, Uncle Bernie likes the...
The Simplest Change Have a Big Impact On Your Health
One of the biggest things that a person can do to help not only change their own life but others as well, is smile. If you’re happy, then maybe you might want to regularly tell your face. Smiling is number two on the list of the 43 Habits of Absolutely Happy People....
Nutritional Supplements: Differing Viewpoints
I was recently with my wife at a doctor’s appointment. One aspect of her visit was this doctor’s review of her current medications and nutritional supplements. As he surveyed the long list of nutritional supplements that she takes, he asked her in bewilderment, “Why...