Help Celebrate the 125th Anniversary of Chiropractic in Style
With next year marking the 125th anniversary of the founding of the chiropractic profession, Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa – site of D.D. Palmer's historic adjustment on Harvey Lillard in 1895 – is providing a valuable free tool to help doctors of chiropractic and other chiropractic stakeholders commemorate the event.
To access the "brand toolkit," which features downloadable versions of the logo in various formats that can be customized to match your specific brand color palette, visit chiropractic125.com. The toolkit includes the font assets / style guide used in the logo; examples of how the logo can be used in marketing materials including websites, social media, advertisements, promotional items (indoor and outdoor banners, etc.) and emails; and of course, the logo itself in various formats for suggested use based on your marketing and display needs.
Any and all questions regarding use of the 125th-anniversary commemorative logo should be directed to
or 563-884-5662.
Chiropractic and Collaborative Care: New White Paper Available
The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP) has announced the release of a new white paper, "The Rise of Collaborative Health Settings." Available for free download via the foundation website, the paper presents a compelling research- and data-supported argument for doctors of chiropractic as essential members of modern multidisciplinary care teams, particularly in light of the ongoing opioid crisis.
Per the white paper's introduction: "[A] growing number of DCs are being included in collaborative, multidisciplinary care teams to help curb opioid prescriptions, but also to help patients achieve greater sustained pain relief and mobility. As recent research has shown, the involvement of DCs is having a profound effect on outcomes, as well as patient satisfaction. This white paper details recent cost and outcomes research and insight into how DCs, medical doctors and healthcare organizations can integrate on care teams."
Key points include the following:
- "Team-based care, especially across disciplines, has been shown to deliver improved patient outcomes."
- "[C]hiropractic care alone or with medical care and other types of care is less expensive, often because patients experience pain relief sooner, with less expense, or managed to avoid more costly procedures and other types of healthcare services."
- "[A]dding DCs to multidisciplinary care teams is improving clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction."
- "To further achieve an interdisciplinary team environment, medical doctors and DCs need to become more familiar with each other's practice to appropriately refer and coordinate care. ... The Collaborative Care for Older Adults with Back Pain (COCOA) model has been shown to be an effective method" in this regard.
- "DCs are a necessary and invaluable addition to a multidisciplinary care team. Not only are more healthcare organizations realizing this fact, but so are employers."
Historic Achievement for Chiropractic Journal
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies has received word from its publisher, BMC (a division of SpringerNATURE) that the journal will be included in the Science Citation Index – Expanded (rehabilitation category). SCIE journals are indexed in Web of Science and receive an Impact Factor, which will take effect for the journal in June 2020. Per a journal press release, "This achievement means that CMT will be the first journal in the world with ‘chiropractic' in its title to attain an impact factor."
The Science Citation Index – Expanded includes more than 8,500 of the world's leading science and technology journals spanning 150 disciplines. A journal's impact factor reflects the average number of citations to articles published in the journal per year. Journals with higher impact factors are considered more important to their respective field because their contents are more frequently cited in other articles, papers and journals.
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies has published peer-reviewed research for nearly three decades. The journal is generously sponsored / supported by four joint venture partners, according to CMT: Chiropractic Australia, the Nordic Institute of Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics, the Royal College of Chiropractors (U.K.) and the European Academy of Chiropractic ECU).
K-Laser Rebrands Under New Name: Summus Medical Laser
Dr. Richard Albright, founder and CEO of K-Laser USA, recently announced that the company has strategically rebranded under a new name: Summus Medical Laser. According to Dr. Albright, "Summus in Latin means ‘the highest of all, superior, best of the best.'... It reflects our commitment to the highest level of service, the greatest user experience and continuous innovation in our laser products – such as integration with cloud technology for practice management – always equipping our providers with the best of the best."
Correction
In the August 2019 issue, Dr. Alan Palmer authored a letter to the editor ("Vaccine Danger: 1,200 Studies Can't Be Wrong") that addressed the vaccination controversy and advocated that, based on ample research, vaccines carry dangers that outweigh the risks. Unfortunately, his article contained an error that, while correctable in the digital / online versions, requires the following notification in print.
In paragraph two, he states: "Projections are at the current rate, by 2032, one of every six children will be autistic!" That statistic should have been "one of every two children," not one of every six. Dynamic Chiropractic apologizes for this oversight and any confusion it may have caused. To read Dr. Palmer's letter in its entirety, please see page 33 of the August digital issue, now indexed in our digital issue archives.
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