In less than eight months, ChiroWeb's To Your Health (TYH) electronic patient newsletter has exceeded over 25,000 subscribers. While the program was designed primarily to educate chiropractic patients, over 5,000 consumers have also subscribed, and are being referred to participating doctors of chiropractic.
The TYH program allows DCs to offer their patients (and other members of their community on an unlimited basis) a biweekly email newsletter that educates them about the benefits of chiropractic and wellness. The email newsletter provides valuable research-referenced information about chiropractic, and includes information about the doctors and their practices. Subscribers have the option to receive newsletters with graphics and photographs, including a photograph of each patient's doctor.
Consumer subscribers receive their newsletters with information right at the top on the nearest participating doctor of chiropractic. Thus far, 1,700 participating doctors are enjoying consumer newsletter referrals every two weeks. Unfortunately, there are still many consumers in areas without participating DCs.
Because To Your Health is an e-mail newsletter, it is extremely inexpensive to educate patients and can easily be forwarded to many more readers. Internet access is not required for participation.
For more information, please call toll-free 888-352-8180.
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.
On Feb. 1, 2024, two more legislators – John R. Carter (R-Texas) and Robert “Bob” Good (R-Va.) – co-sponsored the Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2023, bringing the co-sponsor total to 155, two more than the total achieved over the entire two-year congressional cycle in which identical legislation last appeared (2021-22).
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.
