Foot Levelers, Inc., has been designated a platinum sponsor by contributing $15,000 to the Alliance for Chiropractic Progress, a public relations partnership formed last year between the American Chiropractic Association, the International Chiropractors Association and the Association of Chiropractic Colleges. The contribution by Foot Levelers brings the Alliance another step closer to reaching its goal of raising $500,000 by the end of the year.
For more information on the Alliance, please call (800) 431-8172.
Dr. Little Named to CPT Work Group
Craig Little, DC, the ACA's representative to the American Medical Association's Health Care Professionals Advisory Committee (HCPAC) Review Board, has been appointed to the AMA's "nonphysician practitioners" work group, one of six work groups formed to make improvements to the AMA's current procedural terminology (CPT) codes.
The work groups were appointed by the AMA to help develop new and revised CPT codes. The work groups will present their recommendations to the CPT editorial panel by the early part of 2000. The new codes (CPT-5) should be finalized in 2002.
"The work groups are extremely limited, and many representatives of associations in the HCPAC were not selected to serve," remarked Dr. Little. "I am extremely pleased that we will be an integral part of the work group. I believe that having participation inside a work group offers the ACA significant additional input into the process."
The other work groups include: managed care; research; sites of service; maintenance and education; and structure/hierarchy. The six groups will begin meeting in the fall. Plans call for the groups to listen to testimony from specialty societies and HCPAC members, review reports and articles, and issue a "white paper" that will recommend changes to the CPT codes.
Broncos Hire Team Chiropractor
This past January, the Denver Broncos of the National Football League reached the summit of professional football, beating the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXIII to claim the title of world champions.
Now the Colorado Chiropractic Association has announced that Nelson Vetanze, DC, CCEP, of Aurora, Colorado, has been appointed as the first team chiropractor for the Broncos. The appointment was made by Steve Antonopulos, the team's head athletic trainer.
A 1972 graduate of National College of Chiropractic, Dr. Vetanze has treated nearly 100 professional athletes, including perennial Pro Bowlers such as Walter Payton, Steve Atwater, Bill Romanowski and Tom Jackson.
"Chiropractic treatment controls pain, improves range of motion and keeps the players flexible," said Dr. Vetanze.
LACC Rides Again: Provides Care at AIDS Ride 5
LACC President Reed Phillips, DC, DACBR, PhD, and chiropractic team supervisor Paige Morgenthal, DC, pause for a moment inside the college's busy treatment tent.
The AIDS Ride is a seven-day, 570 mile journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles. This year's event was the largest in the ride's five-year history, with 2,650 riders and a volunteer crew of 650. This year's event raised more than $9.5 million in donations along the way.
Early on the morning of May 29, a group of 35 faculty members and students left Los Angeles College of Chiropractic and headed for San Francisco to provide complimentary chiropractic care for the riders. The chiropractic team rendered 1,287 patient visits during the six days it took the riders to make the southern journey.
photo Ninth-trimester student Chad Moreau was one of the nearly three dozen LACC faculty and students who delivered chiropractic care at this year's AIDS Ride.
The number of riders and volunteers that were treated by LACC's team grew on a daily basis. On the first day of the ride, only 221 patients stopped by for treatment, but by day five, when the cyclists entered Lompoc, the number of patient visits had risen to 352 for the day. Paige Morgenthal, DC, the chiropractic team supervisor, said, "We set out to do a job, and that's just what we did. We lived up to our motto: 'We keep you riding.'"
Bali Bound
Recently, Dr. Rathbun flew from his practice in Tamuning, Guam to attend a symposium on Bali, one of Indonesia's main islands, with the hopes of advancing the profession throughout the South Pacific. A 1978 graduate of Los Angeles College of Chiropractic, Dr. Rathbun delivered a presentation titled "Neuromusculoskeletal Disorders: Nonsurgical Treatment of Sports Injuries."
The meeting was hosted by the Sanglah General Hospital, a teaching hospital for the Udayana University School of Medicine. It was attended by a number of the hospital's top surgeons and a wide variety of specialists, including the team doctor for the Indonesian national soccer team. This symposium was the first of its kind in Bali, but based on its success, the symposium will become an annual event next year, with doctors from the Oceania region expected to participate.
Planting a Piece Pole
Scituate, Massachusetts chiropractor Debra Tranberg celebrated the 10th anniversary of her practice by donating a "peace pole" to her home town.
The idea of planting a peace pole came to Dr. Tranberg from another member of a group of fellow chiropractors who meet monthly to work on professional development. She had been previously involved in another peace pole dedication in Yosemite at a chiropractic conference last August.
"This is a beautiful idea and I wanted to do it for the town," Dr. Tranberg said at the dedication ceremony.
The seven-foot high pole is inscribed with the message: "May Peace Prevail on Earth." That message is also in Braille, sign language, animal prints, and Wampanoag, a native American Indian language. More than 100,000 peace poles have been dedicated in 160 countries around the globe.
Straight Scholarship Contest
The topic for this year's scholarship essay contest of the Federation of Straight Chiropractors and Organizations (FSCO) is delivering chiropractic care to young children using the phrases "accumulative constructive survival value" and "accumulative destructive survival value" to create a model. The FSCO says the "phrases carry significance both historically and philosophically in that they were originally presented to B.J. Palmer by Elbert Hubbard, a noted author and personal friend of B.J."
The first place winner will receive a $500 scholarship; second and third-place winners will receive $250 scholarships. To participate in this year's contest, students should submit three copies of their essays to:
Dr. Theresa Galant
462 Perry Highway
Pittsburgh, PA 15229
Essays need to be received by September 30, 1998. Scholarship awards will be announced this November. For more information, contact Dr. Galant at (412) 931-7644. Students can also visit the FSCO's website at http://www.straightchiropractic.com or send an eþmail to FSCO-juno.com.
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