A historic announcement and record-breaking attendance: just a few of the highlights from this year's The National by the Florida Chiropractic Association, which boasted more than 4,000 attendees and a 400-booth expo featuring 275 companies. Here's a brief synopsis of what took place in Orlando this year.
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Next year's The National by FCA is right around the corner! Visit www.TheNationalChiro.com for up-to-date information on the Aug. 27-30, 2020 event (once again at the Hyatt Regency Orlando), including scheduled speakers, program details and more.
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.
