A discussion regarding rural health disparities, inequities, and equities that may be addressed by chiropractic specialists within Rural Health Clinics.

Integrated Care Pathways is a three-part series that introduces possible ways a chiropractic doctor may work closely with a hospital or medical team. The series will cover possible pathways, how to work with the medical model, communicating with other doctors and, finally, problem solving for those tough cases. (Three CE credits)

Federally Qualified Health Centers/Community Health Centers will be described as primary care sites serving patients in pain because of neuromusculoskeletal conditions and in need of chiropractic interventions. This course will discuss the needs for the integration of chiropractic services, education, and research within Federally Qualified Health Centers that are Community Health Centers. A detailed discussion will suggest an exceptional career pathway for young chiropractic graduates, or an experienced chiropractic physician interested in employment within an integrated, primary care facility as a chiropractic specialist.

According to the ACA, back pain is the single leading cause of disability worldwide and prevents people from engaging in work and everyday activities. PubMed reports that low back and neck pain are the leading causes of “years lived with disability” in most countries and across age groups. Pain affects all aspects of a person’s life: physically, emotionally, socially and financially. According to the ACA, it is the most common reason for missed work, negatively impacting employers and communities as a whole. Often times people suffering from back pain turn to drugs for temporary relief, and we are all well aware of the opioid crisis in this country. Given the fact that chiropractic care is a safe and effective option for back pain, chiropractors are in a key position to make a positive impact both with the patients they care for and their communities.

Patients with advancing age or disability have been severely impacted by the rapid changes taking place in the healthcare arena, particularly in the aftermath of COVID-19. Education and training resources available to chiropractic physicians to improve their understanding of and sensitivity towards their patients with disabilities or advancing age are sorely lacking, especially in light of pending changes in Medicare. This webinar will bring chiropractic physicians a heightened awareness of the many challenges faced by their patients with advancing age or disability and give them tips to learn how to address them with their patients in their practices.

Join Dr. Michael Ross for part two of his presentation as he dives deeper into a simple approach to practical clinical rehabilitation concepts and methods to enhance patient rehabilitation and injury prevention.

In this course, we will contrast and review the application of active care for the lumbar spine in flexion, extension and neutral spine. In addition to learning the clinical indications for appropriate exercise selection, specific exercise progressions that the clinician can incorporate immediately with low tech solutions will be presented.

Part 1 of this 2-part course will explore a simple approach to practical clinical rehabilitation concepts and methods to enhance patient rehabilitation and injury prevention.

In this course, Dr. Ya-Ling J. Liou will discuss how to achieve better lasting and evidence-based outcomes in your patients with pain by incorporating a 5-step strategy to improve coping and resilience. Doctors of Chiropractic are frequently the first portal of entry for patients with pain. Patients’ experience with pain is shaped by context and that context is laid down haphazardly during childhood by caregivers, whose focus is usually on moving past it as quickly as possible. Without acknowledging patients’ belief systems around pain as shaped by their earliest pain experiences, lasting relief will remain out of reach. Dr. John Gottmann of the University of Washington did the groundbreaking research which led to what is now widely referred to as Emotion Coaching. This is a 5-step strategy that has been shown to improve coping and resilience for emotions. Given the shared neurobiology by pain and emotion, these 5 steps are an important addition to any clinical practice. Attend this webinar to learn how to use your conversation with patients to achieve lasting, evidence-based outcomes.

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is a way of approaching decision making about clinical issues. It means making decisions with the best and most current knowledge possible from science and from practice, with a provider’s expertise, experience, life knowledge and intuition completely integrated, and with patient collaboration, where the healthcare provider values what the patient wants as the outcome for this decision. The 5A’s – Ask, Acquire, Appraise, Apply, Assess/Adjust – is a framework to assist provider’s implementing EBP decision-making. This framework will be described in the presentation with examples being from the literature on chiropractic care for children in sports.