While ChiroWeb.com provides news and information to doctors and students of chiropractic, the site also enjoys an increasing number of consumers seeking information about chiropractic. All told, in March 2006, ChiroWeb's traffic figures exceeded 500,000 unique visits.
With a total of 633,345 unique visits, ChiroWeb received almost 20,000 unique visits per day. This translates to nearly 20 million hits for March on almost 2 million page views. The average visitor spent just over five minutes learning about chiropractic.
In addition to this milestone, ChiroWeb's To Your Health consumer e-mail newsletter reached more than 170,000 subscribers. To Your Health is provided free of charge to interested consumers. It also is used by DCs to educate and inform their patients. (For more information on this patient education program, send an e-mail to myrep@mpamedia.com.)
These figures point to increasing consumer interest in chiropractic. Your practice Web site may be the first point of contact for many potential patients.
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.
