Carlo Ammendolia, DC, PhD, is the recipient of the Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation Professorship in Spine at the University of Toronto, the 12th doctor of chiropractic currently awarded a research chair or professorship by the CCRF. The foundation also recently named André Bussières, DC, MSc, recipient of the CCRF Professorship in Rehabilitation Epidemiology at McGill University. With the latest appointments, there are now five research chairs and seven research professorships in place at universities throughout the country.
Dr. Ammendolia is an associate scientist at the Institute for Work and Health and an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. His research professorship is funded with an initial investment of $500,000 courtesy of a partnership agreement between the CCRF and the University of Toronto.
Dr. Bussières is an assistant professor, Faculty of Medicine at McGill University and a professor in the chiropractic program at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. His research professorship is also funded with a $500,000 initial investment, but from the Clinical Practice Guidelines Project, a joint venture of the Canadian Chiropractic Association and the Canadian Federation of Chiropractic Regulatory and Educational Accrediting Boards.
In addition to Drs. Ammendolia and Bussières at the University of Toronto and McGill University, respectively, the following doctors of chiropractic currently hold research chair / professorship positions courtesy of the CCRF:
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.
