We would like to start off by introducing ourselves to you the international reader. My name is George Dragasevich and I have an Hons., BSc from the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a master's degree in chiropractic from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. My colleague's name is Orazio Trevisan, and he has a BSc from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and also holds a master's degree in chiropractic from Macquarie University.
In ensuing articles we will be writing about what is happening with chiropractic in Australia and New Zealand with respect to politics, new research being conducted, and major points of interest to the international reader. We will also be discussing where chiropractic is heading in the down under as chiropractic begins its centennial year.
Australia and New Zealand have a very proud tradition of producing outstanding chiropractors and researchers: Dr. Lynton Giles, Dr. Lindsay Rowe, and Dr. Nikolai Bogduk, for example.
At the end of October, the Chiropractic Association of Australia held their annual conference in Adelaide, Australia with Dr. Pran Manga as keynote speaker discussing his report to the Canadian government. In future articles we will be discussing what he said and what effect it had on the chiropractic community in Australia.
We're looking forward to being part of the Dynamic Chiropractic team.
George Dragasevich, DC, BSc
Orazio Trevisan, DC, BSc
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.
