DC Awarded Spine Research Fellowship
The International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine has awarded the 2011 MacNab LaRocca Fellowship to Dr. Chris Colloca, who received the $10,000 annual fellowship during the society's 38th annual meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden, in June.
According to a press release from the ISSLS, "The Fellowship will provide support for Dr. Colloca to travel later this year to Adelaide, Australia to collaborate with Robert J. Moore, PhD, to study intervertebral disc regeneration at the Adelaide Centre for Spinal Research in cooperation with the Institute for Medical and Veterinary Science, a division of the governmental authority South Australia Pathology. Dr. Colloca has published a number of scientific papers together with the orthopaedic team from Adelaide studying dynamic spinal stiffness assessments and biomechanical and neurophysiological responses to spinal manipulation."
Dr. Colloca, whose research has appeared in more than 50 publications and currently serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Biomechanics, Clinical Biomechanics, Spine, the European Spine Journal, and the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, among others, will report on his research with Dr. Moore next year during the society's annual meeting in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In addition to his research endeavors, Dr. Colloca is the founder and CEO of Neuromechanical Innovations.
Previous MacNab LaRocca Fellowship winners include Malcolm Pope, James Weinstein, Bjorn Rydevik, Manohar Panjabi, Tapio Vedeman, and Greg Kawchuk.
Australian Chiropractor Awarded Order of Australia
Dr. Phillip Donato, chair of the Chiropractic Board of Australia, has received the Order of Australia, the most prestigious honor Australian citizens can receive. Consideration for the award takes between 18 months and two years. Dr. Donato received the honor on June 13, the Queen's Birthday.
ACA Announces Newest Corporate Members
The American Chiropractic Association recently announced that 10 companies have signed on as corporate members. The newest vendors to partner with the ACA as corporate members are:
"Doctors of chiropractic bear the burden of juggling expert patient care with the demands of running a business," said ACA President Rick McMichael, DC. "Building bridges between doctors of chiropractic and companies with products and services that can help meet their practice needs is good for everyone."
For additional information about the ACA's corporate member program, go to www.acatoday.org/pdf/Corporate_brochure.pdf.
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.
