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Top 20 ranking in search engines under 500 bucks

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Internet scam report I received another one of those “statements” a few weeks ago with a promotion that I could get my web site ranked in the top 20 results for only $499.99! These statements show up at my chiropractic office at least every month and I’m sure all sorts of

Read More »

2007 Tour de France X Games 13 and Shark Week

The news is in on the Tour de France with Alberto Contador, the 24 year-old cyclist for American Discovery Channel, claiming victory. Contador beat his closest competitor by only 23 seconds, the second narrowest time recorded in the tour’s history. You can read Planet Chiropractic coverage related to the tour here: 2007 Tour de France

Read More »

2007 Tour de France Chiropractic and Blood Doping

The 2007 Tour de France is over, with 24 year-old American Discovery Channel cyclist Alberto Contador claiming victory, in the three-week cycling race. Contador is the youngest tour champion since Jan Ullrich of Germany won the Tour de France in 1997. Contador’s time was 23 seconds better than Cadel Evans of Australia, making it the second narrowest win in the tour’s 104 year history.

Read More »

Innate License Plate

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I captured this photo while in Cave Creek, Arizona when I was visiting a Phoenix chiropractor. I didn’t catch what it said it first but then I took a second look. God in Me was the name on the plate and it reminded me of so many talks I have heard

Read More »

Beyonce falls at Orlando Concert

It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Superstar singer Beyonce took a fall down a flight of stairs Tuesday at a concert in Orlando, Florida. Videos have been appearing all over the Web from concert attendees that captured the fall on their handheld recording devices. According to a least one report, Beyonce asked fans not to post videos of the fall to YouTube, Google’s popular video web site (many have since been removed).

Read More »

Become a Chiropractor

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Last week I noticed an advertisement online for a chiropractic school located in the state of California. The ad suggested that the school was an accredited college that offered a balanced approach to techniques and philosophy. Some thoughts… As far as I know, all of the 18 chiropractic schools in the

Read More »

Summerville Chiropractic

by Michael Dorausch This time of year it sure would be sweet having a chiropractic office in a place like Summerville or something smiley like that. I was poking around online and there it was, a Summerville in South Carolina, I did not even know such a place existed. Apparently this place has been a

Read More »

Chiropractor Hot Searches July 2007

It’s been a hot summer for chiropractic related searches on the Internet. The month of July is nearly over, but the expected drop in website traffic as a result of increased summer activities, has not yet occurred. There’s no telling what will happen in August 2007.

Read More »

9 new chiropractic patients keeps me excited

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. If you’d been paying any attention to this blog during the past few days you may have noticed that I was in San Francisco for an Internet get together (I don’t dare call it conference) known as WordCamp. I left my chiropractic office in Los Angeles on Friday night at 7

Read More »

San Francisco Power Outage Darkens Colo Facility

A power outage today in San Francisco has knocked out a number of highly popular websites, including craigslist.org, livejournal, typepad, Technorati, and others. That’s one major subluxation! Fortunately, Planet Chiropractic data servers are up! Upon noticing a spike in web searches for terms such as craigslist sandiego, livejournal down, craigslist raleigh, netflix down I did

Read More »

YouTube CNN Democratic Debate Reports

There are mixed reviews in today’s news regarding yesterday’s CNN/YouTube Democratic presidential debates. Some have touted the events as groundbreaking and historic and others have called them more evolutionary, rather than revolutionary. The event was a mixing of old media (television) and new media (internet) in a format that had not been done previously in the area of presidential debates.

Read More »

Just Thinking About Relationships

By Sharon Gorman, D.C. I was just thinking about relationships, specifically the relationship that you have with your spouse or significant other. Both people need to get what they need out of the relationship or they probably won’t stay in it. Wouldn’t make much sense to stay in a relationship that you aren’t winning at.

Read More »

395 reasons for chiropractic care

It’s Sunday afternoon at WordCamp 2007 in San Francisco and I’ve been at my laptop an estimated combined 18 hours since booting up early Saturday morning. There are over 395 pressers (people using wordpress) in attendance and looking around the room it is rare to see someone not using their laptop. I have not gotten

Read More »

SF Bay Chiropractors Advertising Online

Chiropractors in the San Francisco Bay area are using various methods to advertise their chiropractic services online. I’m here in San Francisco for a WordCamp conference. While I’ve been here I’ve been visiting numerous websites and have noticed a number of chiropractic offices advertising on them. I’ve seen offices as far as New York and

Read More »

Include details to increase ad views

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. It’s all in the details. When posting to chiropractic classifieds, some people write some terrific and descriptive advertisements. Others only post a few general sentences. Over the years I have noticed a significant difference in ad performance (measured by page views) when comparing detailed ads to plain Jane vanilla style ads.

Read More »

WordCamp for WordPress San Fransisco 2007

About 400 people will be gathering at the Swedish-American Hall on Market Street in San Francisco on Saturday, July 21 and Sunday, July 22 to reinforce community involvement around one of the world’s fastest growing open-source software platforms, known as WordPress. The meeting is known as WordCamp, and it’s the second annual event of its kind.

Read More »

Planet Chiropractic at WordCamp 2007 San Francisco

I’m heading to WordCamp 2007 in San Francisco! I know what you are thinking, what in the heck is WordCamp and if it’s a place you go to learn how to spell, or learn how to put together words without creating compound sentences, it’s about time you’re going. Sorry but that’s not it. WordCamp is

Read More »

Chiropractic Television

An interesting pattern has been emerging on the major television networks in the USA. According to a news report on Planet Chiropractic, Monday night featured 3 prime time TV shows that involved actors playing roles as chiropractors. The shows (in order they appeared for broadcast) are Everybody Hates Chris, The New Adventures of Old Christine,

Read More »

New Chiropractic Adventures of Old Christine

Monday night was chiropractic night on major television networks in the United States. The evening started out at 8 p.m. prime time on the CW Network (KTLA in Los Angeles) with Everybody Hates Chris and a repeat episode titled: Everybody Hates Thanksgiving (originally aired on November 20, 2006). The episode features Wayne Brady in his role as Uncle Louis, the chiropractor. Everyone is happy to see Uncle Louis and the entire family gets adjusted before having Thanksgiving dinner. 8:30 p.m. we change stations to CBS (channel 2 in Los Angeles) for a repeat episode of the New Adventures of Old Christine. Let’s check out the story.

Read More »

200 Associate Ads in Classifieds

Regarding chiropractic classifieds, received an e-mail today from student at Palmer Chiropractic College in Davenport Iowa… Thank you for your website, it is appreciated. (Palmer students are so polite) If you have time here is a suggestion. The associate ads are difficult to look through. It would be nice if they were broken up in

Read More »

Chiropractic Lives in California

The first chiropractic adjustment was made in Davenport Iowa, by a man named DD Palmer, way back in 1895. It was the adjustment heard around the world, as the spinal mobilization performed by Palmer, resulted in a deaf janitor by the name of Harvey Lillard, being able to regain his hearing.

Read More »

Enrolled in a Chiropractic Program

This comes from a student about to enter chiropractic college… I am currently enrolled in a chiropractic program at the University of Bridgeport, which I will be starting in August. Now as that day is approaching, I am becoming more and more nervous and am hoping that I am making the right decision. I am

Read More »

Wii Fit in your chiropractic office

A number of my techie friends here on the Westside Los Angeles area have been e-mailing me from E3 since last night regarding Nintendo’s introduction of a new Wii product they will be introducing to the market. Some already feel the product will revolutionize the home fitness industry.

Read More »

Any Chiropractic School Representatives

Are there any chiropractic school representatives that want to answer questions potential students have? I’m a physical therapist from Germany, and I’m interested in joining the Doctor of Chiropractic program. I couldn’t find out how much this program would cost and how many years it actually takes to become a Chiropractor. I’m not sure if

Read More »

Ginormous and other new dictionary words for chiropractic practice

If you’ve been running out of things to say while adjusting your chiropractic patients, never fear, Merriam-Webster has 100 new dictionary words for your linguistic pleasure. Don’t be an old fuddy-duddy chiropractor that is not up on the latest lingo. I have put some of the new words being added into sentence so you can get to using them right away.

Read More »

Lost chiropractor website post

Must have been the tequila, found the post I started and thought was deleted. Getting good feedback on the website idea (thanks) and slowly moving forward (at least moving). Going to load a template version of the website to a subdomain so you can login and play with the settings. Read post link below for

Read More »

Patient Education

By Sharon Gorman, D.C. As many of you know last month I moved into a much larger office. I loved my old office but it just wasn’t big enough. I included a separate room for patient education in this office. I never had a room designated for this purpose in any of my previous offices.

Read More »

Michael Moore Manipulation on CNN

Michael Moore was recently on CNN to talk about his latest film “SICKO” and you can view the segment via youtube. Before CNN host Wolf Blitzer allowed Michael Moore to speak, CNN aired a four minute pre-recorded segment called a “Sicko Reality Check” where chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, went over some of the facts Michael Moore presented in the film.

Read More »

Nano iPhone may be for real

News reports began appearing yesterday that Apple may be planning to build a cheaper and smaller version of the iPhone, following the slim and sleek modeling design of the iPod nano. According to reports, Apple is silent on the subject. I’ve got to admit that I thought the headlines were a hoax, since the only nano iPhone I’ve seen has been on David Letterman.

Read More »

Mysterious Disappearance of Bees

Toxicopathy is a new word to me, but one I believe we will all be hearing about more and more. According to Dorland”s Medical Dictionary (1993) toxicopathy means “any disease caused by a poison.” The same book defines poison as “any substance taken into the body by ingestion, inhalation, injection or absorption that interferes with normal physiological functions.”

Read More »

Chiropractic Office Design Fundamentals

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Sometimes the most basic things are overlooked when we are developing any kind of business space. I’ve taken photographs in various chiropractic offices for about the past 15 years, and there are significant differences as well a similarities, when it comes to chiropractic office design. This week Planet Chiropractic is working

Read More »

Hot Dogs, Fireworks, & Freedom

Happy 4th of July 2007 America! Independence Day is upon us, a birthday celebration of the day the United States claimed independence from Britain. The US is a nation made up of diverse and dynamic people. This Fourth of July will be like many before, with Americans celebrating their freedoms with barbecues, family gatherings, trips to the beach, and most definitely fireworks shows.

Read More »

Medical Terrorist Headlines

Sometimes I skim through news articles so rapidly that I misread headlines. One part of my mind may be moving faster than I have a chance to process the information or I may simply be conditioned to read what I expect to see. It’s not uncommon for me to view headlines like “vacation policies must be changed” or “departments to fill vacancies” while my mind is doing a word twist resulting in me initially seeing words like “vaccination policies” and “fill vaccines.” I viewed some headlines on an Internet news page today that I thought read “medical terrorists” prompting me to do a double take and check the headlines again.

Read More »

The Healing Highway

The importance of good nutrition for good health is not exactly news. Over 2,000 years ago Hippocrates advised, “Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.” But not until 1757 did Scottish physician James Lind become the first person to demonstrate a direct link between a major illness and a specific nutrient. Using one of the first controlled medical experiments in history, Lind showed that sailors supplied with citrus fruits and sauerkraut were able to avoid the telltale signs of scurvy: bleeding gums, rough skin, muscle weakness, poor wound healing, anemia and death.

Read More »

Top 20 ranking in search engines under 500 bucks

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Internet scam report I received another one of those “statements” a few weeks ago with a promotion that I could get my web site ranked in the top 20 results for only $499.99! These statements show up at my chiropractic office at least every month and I’m sure all sorts of

Read More »

2007 Tour de France X Games 13 and Shark Week

The news is in on the Tour de France with Alberto Contador, the 24 year-old cyclist for American Discovery Channel, claiming victory. Contador beat his closest competitor by only 23 seconds, the second narrowest time recorded in the tour’s history. You can read Planet Chiropractic coverage related to the tour here: 2007 Tour de France

Read More »

2007 Tour de France Chiropractic and Blood Doping

The 2007 Tour de France is over, with 24 year-old American Discovery Channel cyclist Alberto Contador claiming victory, in the three-week cycling race. Contador is the youngest tour champion since Jan Ullrich of Germany won the Tour de France in 1997. Contador’s time was 23 seconds better than Cadel Evans of Australia, making it the second narrowest win in the tour’s 104 year history.

Read More »

Innate License Plate

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I captured this photo while in Cave Creek, Arizona when I was visiting a Phoenix chiropractor. I didn’t catch what it said it first but then I took a second look. God in Me was the name on the plate and it reminded me of so many talks I have heard

Read More »

Beyonce falls at Orlando Concert

It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Superstar singer Beyonce took a fall down a flight of stairs Tuesday at a concert in Orlando, Florida. Videos have been appearing all over the Web from concert attendees that captured the fall on their handheld recording devices. According to a least one report, Beyonce asked fans not to post videos of the fall to YouTube, Google’s popular video web site (many have since been removed).

Read More »

Become a Chiropractor

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Last week I noticed an advertisement online for a chiropractic school located in the state of California. The ad suggested that the school was an accredited college that offered a balanced approach to techniques and philosophy. Some thoughts… As far as I know, all of the 18 chiropractic schools in the

Read More »

Summerville Chiropractic

by Michael Dorausch This time of year it sure would be sweet having a chiropractic office in a place like Summerville or something smiley like that. I was poking around online and there it was, a Summerville in South Carolina, I did not even know such a place existed. Apparently this place has been a

Read More »

Chiropractor Hot Searches July 2007

It’s been a hot summer for chiropractic related searches on the Internet. The month of July is nearly over, but the expected drop in website traffic as a result of increased summer activities, has not yet occurred. There’s no telling what will happen in August 2007.

Read More »

9 new chiropractic patients keeps me excited

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. If you’d been paying any attention to this blog during the past few days you may have noticed that I was in San Francisco for an Internet get together (I don’t dare call it conference) known as WordCamp. I left my chiropractic office in Los Angeles on Friday night at 7

Read More »

San Francisco Power Outage Darkens Colo Facility

A power outage today in San Francisco has knocked out a number of highly popular websites, including craigslist.org, livejournal, typepad, Technorati, and others. That’s one major subluxation! Fortunately, Planet Chiropractic data servers are up! Upon noticing a spike in web searches for terms such as craigslist sandiego, livejournal down, craigslist raleigh, netflix down I did

Read More »

YouTube CNN Democratic Debate Reports

There are mixed reviews in today’s news regarding yesterday’s CNN/YouTube Democratic presidential debates. Some have touted the events as groundbreaking and historic and others have called them more evolutionary, rather than revolutionary. The event was a mixing of old media (television) and new media (internet) in a format that had not been done previously in the area of presidential debates.

Read More »

Just Thinking About Relationships

By Sharon Gorman, D.C. I was just thinking about relationships, specifically the relationship that you have with your spouse or significant other. Both people need to get what they need out of the relationship or they probably won’t stay in it. Wouldn’t make much sense to stay in a relationship that you aren’t winning at.

Read More »

395 reasons for chiropractic care

It’s Sunday afternoon at WordCamp 2007 in San Francisco and I’ve been at my laptop an estimated combined 18 hours since booting up early Saturday morning. There are over 395 pressers (people using wordpress) in attendance and looking around the room it is rare to see someone not using their laptop. I have not gotten

Read More »

SF Bay Chiropractors Advertising Online

Chiropractors in the San Francisco Bay area are using various methods to advertise their chiropractic services online. I’m here in San Francisco for a WordCamp conference. While I’ve been here I’ve been visiting numerous websites and have noticed a number of chiropractic offices advertising on them. I’ve seen offices as far as New York and

Read More »

Include details to increase ad views

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. It’s all in the details. When posting to chiropractic classifieds, some people write some terrific and descriptive advertisements. Others only post a few general sentences. Over the years I have noticed a significant difference in ad performance (measured by page views) when comparing detailed ads to plain Jane vanilla style ads.

Read More »

WordCamp for WordPress San Fransisco 2007

About 400 people will be gathering at the Swedish-American Hall on Market Street in San Francisco on Saturday, July 21 and Sunday, July 22 to reinforce community involvement around one of the world’s fastest growing open-source software platforms, known as WordPress. The meeting is known as WordCamp, and it’s the second annual event of its kind.

Read More »

Planet Chiropractic at WordCamp 2007 San Francisco

I’m heading to WordCamp 2007 in San Francisco! I know what you are thinking, what in the heck is WordCamp and if it’s a place you go to learn how to spell, or learn how to put together words without creating compound sentences, it’s about time you’re going. Sorry but that’s not it. WordCamp is

Read More »

Chiropractic Television

An interesting pattern has been emerging on the major television networks in the USA. According to a news report on Planet Chiropractic, Monday night featured 3 prime time TV shows that involved actors playing roles as chiropractors. The shows (in order they appeared for broadcast) are Everybody Hates Chris, The New Adventures of Old Christine,

Read More »

New Chiropractic Adventures of Old Christine

Monday night was chiropractic night on major television networks in the United States. The evening started out at 8 p.m. prime time on the CW Network (KTLA in Los Angeles) with Everybody Hates Chris and a repeat episode titled: Everybody Hates Thanksgiving (originally aired on November 20, 2006). The episode features Wayne Brady in his role as Uncle Louis, the chiropractor. Everyone is happy to see Uncle Louis and the entire family gets adjusted before having Thanksgiving dinner. 8:30 p.m. we change stations to CBS (channel 2 in Los Angeles) for a repeat episode of the New Adventures of Old Christine. Let’s check out the story.

Read More »

200 Associate Ads in Classifieds

Regarding chiropractic classifieds, received an e-mail today from student at Palmer Chiropractic College in Davenport Iowa… Thank you for your website, it is appreciated. (Palmer students are so polite) If you have time here is a suggestion. The associate ads are difficult to look through. It would be nice if they were broken up in

Read More »

Chiropractic Lives in California

The first chiropractic adjustment was made in Davenport Iowa, by a man named DD Palmer, way back in 1895. It was the adjustment heard around the world, as the spinal mobilization performed by Palmer, resulted in a deaf janitor by the name of Harvey Lillard, being able to regain his hearing.

Read More »

Enrolled in a Chiropractic Program

This comes from a student about to enter chiropractic college… I am currently enrolled in a chiropractic program at the University of Bridgeport, which I will be starting in August. Now as that day is approaching, I am becoming more and more nervous and am hoping that I am making the right decision. I am

Read More »

Wii Fit in your chiropractic office

A number of my techie friends here on the Westside Los Angeles area have been e-mailing me from E3 since last night regarding Nintendo’s introduction of a new Wii product they will be introducing to the market. Some already feel the product will revolutionize the home fitness industry.

Read More »

Any Chiropractic School Representatives

Are there any chiropractic school representatives that want to answer questions potential students have? I’m a physical therapist from Germany, and I’m interested in joining the Doctor of Chiropractic program. I couldn’t find out how much this program would cost and how many years it actually takes to become a Chiropractor. I’m not sure if

Read More »

Ginormous and other new dictionary words for chiropractic practice

If you’ve been running out of things to say while adjusting your chiropractic patients, never fear, Merriam-Webster has 100 new dictionary words for your linguistic pleasure. Don’t be an old fuddy-duddy chiropractor that is not up on the latest lingo. I have put some of the new words being added into sentence so you can get to using them right away.

Read More »

Lost chiropractor website post

Must have been the tequila, found the post I started and thought was deleted. Getting good feedback on the website idea (thanks) and slowly moving forward (at least moving). Going to load a template version of the website to a subdomain so you can login and play with the settings. Read post link below for

Read More »

Patient Education

By Sharon Gorman, D.C. As many of you know last month I moved into a much larger office. I loved my old office but it just wasn’t big enough. I included a separate room for patient education in this office. I never had a room designated for this purpose in any of my previous offices.

Read More »

Michael Moore Manipulation on CNN

Michael Moore was recently on CNN to talk about his latest film “SICKO” and you can view the segment via youtube. Before CNN host Wolf Blitzer allowed Michael Moore to speak, CNN aired a four minute pre-recorded segment called a “Sicko Reality Check” where chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, went over some of the facts Michael Moore presented in the film.

Read More »

Nano iPhone may be for real

News reports began appearing yesterday that Apple may be planning to build a cheaper and smaller version of the iPhone, following the slim and sleek modeling design of the iPod nano. According to reports, Apple is silent on the subject. I’ve got to admit that I thought the headlines were a hoax, since the only nano iPhone I’ve seen has been on David Letterman.

Read More »

Mysterious Disappearance of Bees

Toxicopathy is a new word to me, but one I believe we will all be hearing about more and more. According to Dorland”s Medical Dictionary (1993) toxicopathy means “any disease caused by a poison.” The same book defines poison as “any substance taken into the body by ingestion, inhalation, injection or absorption that interferes with normal physiological functions.”

Read More »

Chiropractic Office Design Fundamentals

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Sometimes the most basic things are overlooked when we are developing any kind of business space. I’ve taken photographs in various chiropractic offices for about the past 15 years, and there are significant differences as well a similarities, when it comes to chiropractic office design. This week Planet Chiropractic is working

Read More »

Hot Dogs, Fireworks, & Freedom

Happy 4th of July 2007 America! Independence Day is upon us, a birthday celebration of the day the United States claimed independence from Britain. The US is a nation made up of diverse and dynamic people. This Fourth of July will be like many before, with Americans celebrating their freedoms with barbecues, family gatherings, trips to the beach, and most definitely fireworks shows.

Read More »

Medical Terrorist Headlines

Sometimes I skim through news articles so rapidly that I misread headlines. One part of my mind may be moving faster than I have a chance to process the information or I may simply be conditioned to read what I expect to see. It’s not uncommon for me to view headlines like “vacation policies must be changed” or “departments to fill vacancies” while my mind is doing a word twist resulting in me initially seeing words like “vaccination policies” and “fill vaccines.” I viewed some headlines on an Internet news page today that I thought read “medical terrorists” prompting me to do a double take and check the headlines again.

Read More »

The Healing Highway

The importance of good nutrition for good health is not exactly news. Over 2,000 years ago Hippocrates advised, “Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.” But not until 1757 did Scottish physician James Lind become the first person to demonstrate a direct link between a major illness and a specific nutrient. Using one of the first controlled medical experiments in history, Lind showed that sailors supplied with citrus fruits and sauerkraut were able to avoid the telltale signs of scurvy: bleeding gums, rough skin, muscle weakness, poor wound healing, anemia and death.

Read More »