Dr. Saboe Speaks at National Summit
Dr. Vern Saboe, lobbyist for the Oregon Chiropractic Association and DC columnist, discussed the Oregon Health Plan experience at the 3rd Annual Summit on Balanced Pain Management last December.
Dr. Saboe said he "reviewed the process that led to OHP now covering common back and spinal pain conditions and non-pharmacologic treatments in hopes of reducing opioid narcotic use and costly spinal surgeries; and covered how Oregon's initial development of evidence-based back treatment guidelines led to coverage of integrated pain care combining standard medical care with chiropractic, acupuncture, cognitive behavioral therapy, yoga, intensive rehabilitation, massage therapy, and/or supervised exercise therapy.'
To learn more about Dr. Saboe and his involvement in Oregon health care, access a complete biography and previous articles on his columnist page.
New EVP at the NBCE
Dr. Normal Ouzts Jr. has been named new executive vice president of the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners. A longtime member of the NBCE board, he vacates his position as District V director to assume the EVP role. As of press time, the board is seeking a replacement for the District V directorship.
Many relevant diagnostic signs are not performed deliberately by the examiner or by the patient at the examiner’s direction. They are observed as the patient reacts to their condition. Fortin’s finger sign, Minor’s sign, and Vanzetti’s sign are three examples of this principle.
Spearheaded by burgeoning scientific and clinical research literature, psychedelics have reached a level of media coverage and popular interest that has not been seen for over half a century. By “psychedelics,” we are referring to the unique class of substances that includes psilocybin (the active compound found in so-called “magic mushrooms”), LSD, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ayahuasca, 5-MeO-DMT, and mescaline – each of which occurs in the natural world (except for LSD, which is a semi-synthetic compound).
While working at the Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, N.M., one of the primary care physicians stated that imaging every patient prior to receiving chiropractic was not medically necessary. It was at that point I reconsidered the need for the imaging of every patient to avoid malpractice.
