Parker Seminars hosts largest eventuality in chiropractic

January 24, 2012 — Each year DCs and CAs from around a creation transport to Las Vegas for a largest chiropractic convention in a universe — Parker Seminars Las Vegas.

This past week, some-more than 5,300 Parker Seminar attendees flocked to a uninformed and sparkling choice of courses designed to urge chiropractors, chiropractic assistants, and chiropractic students.

The convention enclosed innovative developmental marks that supposing superintendence by specific hurdles and promoted swell formed on a length of time a attendee has been in a chiropractic profession.

Courses ranged from topics on “Positioning Yourself as a Community Expert” to improving your studious centered caring delivery, and vital a chiropractic truth lifestyle.  In addition, business topics were charity including “What Every Chiropractor Needs to Know about Asset Protection, Tax Reduction, and Estate Planning”.

Parker University student, Derrell Pratt-Blackburn, presenting on a categorical stage. “Attending Parker Seminars as a alloy of chiropractic for a initial time has been truly awakening,” pronounced Dr. Lee R. Hardin. “I came here with high expectations and I’m withdrawal with any one of them met. we also came here with a pretension of alloy of chiropractic and am withdrawal as a loyal chiropractor, empowered to learn chiropractic.”

Many of a classes charity stability preparation credits on subjects like “Alzheimer’s Dementia Epidemiology and Prevention,” “Heart Rate Variability — a Technology that is Transforming Chiropractic,” and “Chiropractic and a Frozen Shoulder,” to name a few.

Dr. Fabrizio Mancini, boss of Parker University and Parker Seminars, delivered a absolute message, “Servant Leadership: Empower, Encourage, and Inspire” during a opening session.

“We’re asked to offer as leaders within a practices, with a patients, within a families and communities any and any day,” pronounced Mancini. “As a leader, we contingency enthuse others to strech new heights. You contingency inspire them by explaining that they already have a collection to be who they wish to be, they only need to put those collection to use. Empowering yourself as a personality you’re meant to be will take we and your use to a aloft turn of success and

service.”

With some-more than 50 universe eminent speakers charity imagination in all areas of life and practice, some of a pivotal note speakers included, Dr. John Demartini, Dr. Rick Wren, Brandi MacDonald, Dr. Elizabeth Anderson-Peacock, Dr. Patrick Gentempo, Dr. Fabrizio Mancini, Dr. Carol Ann Malizia, Dr. Gilles Lamarche, Dr. Michael Hall, Dr. James Chestnut, Dr. Nicole Lederman, JJ Virgin, Lisa Speaks, Dr. Dan Murphy, and many more.

In addition, a choice of world-famous authors from Hay House publishing, including Louise L. Hay, Cheryl Richardson, Marianne Williamson, Robert Holden, and Caroline Myss presented life-changing, inspirational messages.

Representing a subsequent era of chiropractors, Derrell Pratt-Blackburn, spoke during a opening session. This past fall, Pratt-Blackburn was announced a champion of a 2011 Talk a TIC competition, a worldwide annual chiropractic health speak foe between chiropractic students effectively delivering a chiropractic summary to others. As a outcome of winning a competition, he perceived a respect of being a initial chiropractic tyro to ever benefaction on a categorical theatre during Parker Seminars.Dr. Gilles Lamarche speaks during a opening event during Parker Seminars Las Vegas.

Attendees also enjoyed a biggest chiropractic expo on a world where some-more than 300 exhibitors displayed a profession’s many cutting-edge products and technologies.

The convention also charity lively amicable events such as a Chiropractic Assistants Meeting and Breakfast, first-ever Parker Seminars Student Mastermind session, World Congress of Women Chiropractors (WCWC) Meeting, and more.

In further to a orator sessions, special events, and a exhibitor hall, this year’s convention festivities featured a Starlight Soirée, that was hold to lift deduction for chiropractic research. The soirée lifted $75,000 for chiropractic research.

Attendees left rejuvenated and prepared to offer during an even aloft turn than before.

Parker Seminars will partner with a California Chiropractic Association and transport to San Diego, on May 4-6, 2012. To register or for some-more information about a seminar, revisit www.parker.edu/sandiego.

Source: Parker University, www.parker.edu

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Neck Pain Study Reinforces Use of Chiropractic, Other Conservative Options

ARLINGTON, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–A
new study
published this month in a Annals of Internal Medicine
finds spinal manipulative therapy (SMT) and exercise some-more effective at
relieving neck pain than pain medication. The investigate reinforces the
use of regressive caring options as a initial line of invulnerability against
pain, according to a American Chiropractic Association (ACA).

“Doctors of chiropractic have prolonged cautioned opposite a overuse of
remedy to provide musculoskeletal pain”

The investigate divided participants into 3 groups that perceived either
SMT from a alloy of chiropractic (DC), pain medication
(over-the-counter pain relievers, narcotics and flesh relaxants) or
practice recommendations. After 12 weeks, about 57 percent of those who
met with DCs and 48 percent who exercised reported during slightest a 75 percent
rebate in pain, compared to 33 percent of a people in the
remedy group. After one year, approximately 53 percent of the
drug-free groups still reported during slightest a 75 percent rebate in pain;
compared to only 38 percent pain rebate among those who took
medication.

The investigate also found that notwithstanding experiencing singular pain relief,
people in a drug organisation continued regulating a aloft volume of medication
some-more frequently via a follow-up period. This finding
underscores concerns lifted in an Apr 2011 government
report
that indicated remedy drug abuse in a U.S. has
reached predicament level.

“Doctors of chiropractic have prolonged cautioned opposite a overuse of
remedy to provide musculoskeletal pain,” pronounced ACA President Keith
Overland, DC. “We continue to foster drug-free, conservative
interventions for neck pain patients before mention for medical
government that might outcome in side effects. Patients merit to know
that there are natural, drug-free options when it comes to pain relief.”

The American Chiropractic Association (ACA), formed in Arlington, Va.,
is a largest veteran organisation in a United States
representing doctors of chiropractic. ACA promotes a top standards
of studious caring and ethics, and supports investigate that contributes to
a health and contentment of millions of chiropractic patients. Visit
www.acatoday.org.

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Logan College of Chiropractic announces staff appointments

December 30, 2011 — George A. Goodman, DC, FICC, boss of Logan College of chiropractic/University Programs, has announced a series of crew appointments including several staff promotions during a school.

Vincent McGee, executive of media, has been named associate clamp boss of educational technology, Dr. Nicholas Farha has been allocated associate vanguard of educational technology, and Dr. Connie Hayes has been promoted to partner executive of a Biofreeze Sports Rehabilitation Center on a campus.

In a information systems department, Gregory George has assimilated Logan as network executive while Eric Saller has been promoted to information support specialist.

McGee, who assimilated Logan in 2007, has some-more than 30 years of knowledge in enlightening technology, media services, stretch education, and photography. He binds a Bachelor of Science grade and a master’s grade in preparation from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville.

Farha, before executive of Web-based education, was an enlightening engineer during Missouri State University in Springfield before to fasten Logan and has some-more than 15 years of

knowledge in educational and media technology. He binds masters’ degrees in preparation and government information systems, and warranted his PhD in curriculum, instruction, and media record from Indiana State University.

An Apr 2000 Logan graduate, Hayes is an instructor during Logan, a approved chiropractic sports medicine and has sports and reconstruction shortcoming for all off-campus Logan events. She is a past boss of a Logan Sports Chiropractic Association and a consecrated officer in a U.S. Army Reserves.

George joins Logan from Heartland Bank where he served as a HelpDesk and designation specialist. He binds a Bachelor of Science grade in Information Systems Security from ITT Technical Institute.

Prior to fasten Logan in 2009 as a Help-Desk technician, Saller was a margin technician with Fast-Teks Onsite Computer Service. He has some-more than 10 years of patron use and mechanism record knowledge in hardware, software, handling systems and network troubleshooting skills, and binds mixed Microsoft approved veteran ratings.

Source: Logan College of Chiropractic, www.logan.edu

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31 graduates conferred during Cleveland Chiropractic College’s commencement

December 16, 2011 — Cleveland Chiropractic College (CCC) hold a Fall 2011 derivation rite Dec. 9 in a Assembly Hall on campus. Thirty-one graduates were respected and Dr. Paul Barlett, vanguard of pre-clinical education, presented any with a diploma consultation their alloy of chiropractic degree.

Dr. Jill Davis ’07, chair of Basic Sciences, gave rudimentary remarks and Dr. Kim Hamilton ’92, professor, administered a chiropractic oath. Faculty marshals comparison by a graduates were Dr. Bryan Bond and Dr. Michael Whitehead.

College President Dr. Carl S. Cleveland III introduced Dr. Daniel Fahnestock, a 1965 CCC connoisseur and a member of a College’s house of trustees, who gave a derivation address. Cleveland III spoke to interpretation a ceremony, giving his assign to a graduating class.

Fall 2011 graduates were Chad Barnes, Patrick Barry, Justin Bashor, Samuel Beugelsdijk, Jeffrey Breithaupt, Adam Dinkel, Jared Dunlap, Michael Hinds, Breanne Hinz, Julie Holland, Kaleigh Jones-Clark, Jennifer Knobbe, Matthew Lane, Douglas McDuffee, Meryl Miller, Thomas Murray, Joel Pistello, Tiffany Poterbin, Sarah Potthoff, Evan Rowe, Travis

Seeber, Mary Surridge, Scott Taylor, Christopher Thornburgh, Valerie Tolen, Kelli Trecek, Cody Vitt, Kiley Willis, Suzanne Wolverton, Samuel Yoder and Weston Zenner. Yoder was named a valedictorian. Barnes, Barry, Beugelsdijk, Hinz, Knobbe, Miller, Poterbin, Potthoff, Trecek, Willis, Wolverton and Zenner all graduated with honors.

During a annual “President’s Banquet” hold a night before graduation, several other graduates perceived honors and awards. Dr. Robert Moore, associate chair of clinical sciences, presented Clinic Service Awards to Barry, Hinz, Murray, Poterbin and Zenner. Murray and Zenner also perceived Clinic Excellence Awards during a banquet.

Davis afterwards inducted 6 graduates into a Pi Tau Delta National chiropractic Honor Society, that is a poignant feat for those selected. To be authorised for membership, graduating students contingency grasp a GPA of 3.5 or higher, have never perceived a minute category reduce than a “B” and have never cold from a class. Those graduates inducted into a respect multitude were Barry, Beugelsdijk, Hinz, Knobbe, Miller and Yoder.

Source: Cleveland Chiropractic College, www.cleveland.edu

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