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News Archives For July 2006
planetc1.com-news@1:53 pm PST For years, Dr. James Sigafoose has been sharing a positive message of chiropractic with all that will listen. He has spoken at thousands of events attended by chiropractors and the general public. While this content is intended for doctors of chiropractic, "the message" here can be utilized and acted upon by anyone. Chiropractic 101: An Aspiring Chiropractor planetc1.com-news@11:44 am PST My name is Melissa, and this fall I will be a junior at the University of Southern California. I am writing you this email because I am interested in being a chiropractor. I have done some research online and while looking around, I found your website (ADIOLA). Seeing your ambition, personality, dedication, and love of your career and life is very inspiring. I was wondering, since I am still trying to figure things out about this career, if you would be willing to give me some advice and your general opinion about this field of work. What was it that got you interested in being a chiropractor? What kind of schooling did you have to go though? What would you say are the pros and cons of your career? I do have many more questions, but if there is any other information that you would be willing to share, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you so much for taking the time to read my email. I look forward to hearing from you.
planetc1.com-news@7:16 pm PST The World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) has elected Gerard W. Clum, D.C. as the new president of the organization. Dr. Clum is representing the International Chiropractors Association (ICA) in the northern region.
planetc1.com-news@6:21 pm PST  Have you ever had someone so big (as in heavy) in your chiropractic office that you just could not fit them in front of the x-ray Bucky? You get out your calipers and the end falls off when trying to make the measurement. You glance at your patient's belly, then at your bucky, and finally at your x-ray tube. You begin wondering when was the last time it was serviced. Will it hold out? Now I'm not trying to make fun of people, this is a serious issue. And either way, I know if you are taking x-ray you've been in this situation before.
public_health@3:04 pm PST How is it possible that the wealthiest nation on the planet has an infant mortality rate higher than just about every other industrialized country? Help is finally on the way for solving this dilemma, or so I thought when I first noticed the headlines announcing new recommendations for pregnant moms from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). 20th Anniversary of my Licensure as a Chiropractor planetc1.com-news@5:55 am PST My life has been overflowing with nostalgia lately. I guess it all started in March; right around the time Hillary (my wife) tried out and made it into the cast of a local production of “Hair”. By the time the show actually went into performances, I could’ve understudied any role in it, and the songs brot me directly back to that wild and crazy time of so much hope and freedom and war and frustration. Those songs are finally beginning to leave my head, where they’ve been floating around constantly for 5 months.
planetc1.com-news@6:50 pm PST The news began appearing on Sunday, Tiger Woods had again won the British Open. Hours later, news agencies began reporting on American cyclist Floyd Landis and his winning of the Tour de France. Tiger Woods is the second golfer to win back-to-back British open championships (Tom Watson won in 1982 and 1983). I've noticed almost 2000 articles on the internet since Sunday, many of them talking about the intensity and endurance required for these great champions to be successful. These are not just regular athletes. Some articles suggested that the Floyd Landis win represents one of the biggest athletic comebacks seen in decades. Tiger Woods win of the British Open was his 11th major championship win. Many articles referred to Tiger as "the greatest golfer ever."
planetc1.com-news@5:44 pm PST  The news is in, American cyclist, Floyd Landis has won this year's (2006) Tour de France. News from all over the world is saying this is one of the biggest sports achievements in decades. The news of the Tour de France win for Landis came in just hours after it was reported that another well-known American, Tiger Woods, had just one his second British Open. The Landis win alone is enough to get any diehard sports enthusiast excited because the story behind his win is rather incredible. This year's Tour de France was a thrilling adventure and Landis beat some pretty heavy odds to win this race.
public_health@7:14 pm PST Remember how the doctor lied to you when you were a kid as he jabbed your rear end with the pointy needle of a giant syringe as long as a broomstick? “This is going to hurt me a lot more than it hurts you!” Did he really think we kids were dumb enough to fall for that baloney?
planetc1.com-news@10:31 pm PST  A report out this week from the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) estimates that 1.5 million Americans are being injured each year as a result of prescribing mistakes related to medications. The errors are costing more than $3.5 billion each year. The report also suggests that 7000 people continue to die each year as a result of wrongly prescribed or errors related to medications.Where did this headline go? planetc1.com-news@9:36 pm PST Good thing I don't write prescriptions. The headlines should have read "Medication Mistakes Continue to Kill and/or Harm Millions." Silly me, everyone knows chiropractors don't prescribe medications. Selling drugs, that is the business of medicine. As it turns out, the report is from the well-respected Institute of Medicine. Headlines tonight from several hundred news organizations around the globe read as follows... Do you have to be a health nut to be healthy? public_health@8:18 am PST  The medical approach to health has come to dominate the field of primary health services in our country over the span of the last half-century or so. It goes like this. First, the doctor identifies and lists all the clinical signs and symptoms exhibited by the patient. Second, the resulting list is compared to named diseases and their lists of signs and symptoms. These are then matched up and the patient gets labeled with one or more diseases. Third, the doctor prescribes a treatment to cure the diagnosed disease. Almost universally, this consists of taking medication, due to the underlying philosophy of medicine. When you are ill, you take a pill.
planetc1.com-news@12:26 am PST  An ugly two-inch long and quarter-inch wide dark pink scar is slashed across my right shoulder. This is the remnant of what will most likely be the last office job I will ever have. It is, however, not the only remnant. I also have the misfortune of being one of over 50 million people in the United States who suffer from chronic pain. Although I have yet to find anything that completely cures my pain, I have found only one thing that helps it. I receive chiropractor care. Without it, my body falls into a dismal state of agony and numbness. I am 38 years old and in great physical shape. I am otherwise perfectly healthy. So how did I come to this? It’s quite simple, really. The human body was not designed to do the things we ask of it in the workplace. Who hasn’t heard of repetitive stress injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, and ergonomics? There’s a reason for this. Statistics say approximately one third of the workforce regularly works in pain.
public_health@1:09 pm PST  I love cheese, don’t you? Cheese, of course, is made from the milk of strange-looking four-legged mammals with big eyes and dull horns who live in concentration camps scattered around the countryside. You know — dairy cows. Chances are that the cow who made the milk to make my cheese gets injected with growth hormones to speed up milk production and raise profitability. This also means the poor old cow gets dosed with loads of antibiotics to treat the impacts of added stress.
planetc1.com-news@9:47 pm PST  I was out today for my morning run which typically involves running along the shoreline in Venice and sometimes into Marina del Rey or Santa Monica. The morning started out quite cloudy and the weather was perfect for running on the beach. I headed south under the pier and towards the marina jetty. When I reached the rocks I turned around and headed north until I reached the rocks at the base of the Venice lifeguard station. I started heading back south again and was about to finish my run as it was starting to get fairly warm and I had already logged just under 5 miles. At about the point that I would head back up to the house I felt a sense urging me to continue down to the marina jetty again. I accepted the suggestion and it left my mind as fast as it came. I continued to run about another mile, in the now warm morning sun, and just as that runner's high was kicking in everything just slipped into place.
public_health@8:48 pm PST The name midwife means “with woman.” Midwives have always been in charge of delivering babies, ever since the beginning of human existence, all the way up to about 150 years ago in the United States. That was when a small group of medical doctors decided to launch a war against midwifery, having unilaterally decided that medical doctors were better suited to the job than midwives.
chiropractic_schools@8:49 pm PST The interest rate on new federal Stafford loans is going to be 6.8%, and that rate could go up again in the near future. The rate on existing Stafford loans, climbs today from 5.3% to 7.14%. That is for current student loans that have not yet been consolidated. The loan rate for Plus college loans is going from 6.1% to 7.94% with new Plus loans issued after today beginning at 8.5%. Is chiropractic medicine gaining traction online? planetc1.com-news@3:22 pm PST I was curious to find what the status was on the term "chiropractic medicine" in relationship to other terms that may or may not be getting used when performing search engine queries online. |
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