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Video of LA Chiropractor Goes Web 2.0 Viral

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. A few weeks ago someone contacted me to let me know that a chiropractic adjusting video, which was filmed during a lunch break in my LA office, was featured on the homepage of a social networking business website. Take a look at the screenshot below and then we’ll talk about it.

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Yellow Bags of Duplicate Content

by Michael Dorausch I’ve been meaning to post a photograph one of my chiropractic assistants took when phone books arrived at my ADIO Chiropractic office (in LA) earlier this year. Being in a major metro area like Los Angeles results in a bunch of phone book companies competing for local business. There are four different

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Migraines and Increased Risk of Stroke

Research from the Department of Neurology at the University of Maryland school of medicine is suggesting that women who suffer from migraines accompanied by visual symptoms (often called an aura) have a slight increased risk of stroke, especially if they are smokers, and/or use oral contraceptives.

Read More »

Chiropractors and Authors on Planet Chiropractic

It’s been over nine years since Planet Chiropractic began organizing news articles appearing on the website into an archived format. A reporter for a national newspaper recently asked me if I knew how many authors have provided articles to Planet Chiropractic and I didn’t know the exact answer. I estimated it was around 100 that have been published. I decided to do a search today through some author archives and I still don’t have an exact number of authors that have been published but I do have a much better idea than I did before the question was asked. What I discovered were submissions from approximately 70 chiropractic authors, a dozen non-chiropractors, and 14 organizations, including three chiropractic colleges and three national chiropractic associations.

Read More »

7 Reasons to Hire a Local Webdesigner

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I thought I wrote about this before but I can’t seem to currently find the post. A bunch of chiropractors were gathered around my ubuntu running laptop a few days ago and someone asked me the question I’ve been asked some thousand plus times before. Who should I hire to build

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Real Webmasters Eat Cheeseburgers

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I was about to do a post about going local when having a website built for a chiropractic office when I located this cheeseburger photograph in my Picassa2 browser. That’s no ordinary cheeseburger. I forget how big the hamburger patty was but it looks a half pound or more to me.

Read More »

Student wants to attend Cleveland in LA

Received this e-mail earlier today… HI ~ this is [name removed] who wants to attend chiropractic school. I am going to community college in San Jose. I’ve heard that Cleveland chiropractic school educates requirements classes. I believe I can save time with that program for attending chiropractic school. I appreciate if you send me information

Read More »
Sigafoose Parker Seminars 2001

Pushing 50 Years of Chiropractic

In 2 years I will have been a chiropractor for 50 years. Have I seen and learned anything? Yes, I found new chiropractors are fat already, lack motivation, and are willing to do whatever it takes to make a buck. That means treating symptoms, and or disease any way you can, with whatever seems to be popular.

Read More »

Denver Chiropractor Postcards Marketing Genius

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. All kinds of service industry businesses have companies that provide generic postcard templates covering a variety of topics. For example, in the profession of chiropractic, there are a number of companies that offer generic postcards with pictures of spines, pictures of hands, licensed cartoon characters endorsing chiropractic, motivational messages, and such.

Read More »

Matt Cutts Deserves Chiropractic

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Like many people involved in SEO, Matt Cutts is a hard-working individual. Matt works for Google and he is currently the head of the company’s website spam team. I suspect it’s not easy being the #2 Matt in the world (Matt Mullenweg of WordPress is #1) but that’s not likely the

Read More »

Getting Real About the Reality

By Sharon Gorman, D.C. Last Saturday afternoon Armand Rossi did a two hour training session for Chiropractors in my office between my Open House for the patients and our Philosophy Night at the Hotel. The entire day was awesome. At the end of his talk he asked us if we had any questions and I

Read More »

Chiropractors Internet Report August 2007

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Nice to have a big fat wireless WiFi connection when staying at hotels. Comes in super handy when you want to power up your Ubuntu Dell XPS (Windows crashed) and browse the net with friends and business colleagues. Interacted with dozens of chiropractors from the United States and Canada this past

Read More »

Chiropractic and Wellness Gold Card

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I spent some time hanging out with other chiropractors recently in Scottsdale, Arizona. I was attending a chiropractic seminar at the prestigious Arizona Biltmore Hotel (what a spectacular place) and while I was there I collected a bunch of chiropractic business cards and postcards so that I could share them with

Read More »

Lucky 13 X Games Fall for Skater Jake Brown

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Big Air Skateboarder Jake Brown fell nearly 50 feet last night at X Games 13. In a crowd shocker, after lying there for almost 5 minutes, Brown got up and walked it off. I’ve been at events like these for years and one thing I’ve learned from extreme action sports people

Read More »

4 Steps to Chiropractic Music Business Success

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I was at breakfast with a group of friends last Saturday and a conversation came up regarding success stories in the music industry. First, this is no ordinary group of guys talking about music. Second, I had my laptop. You may be asking yourself “what kind of a nerd brings a

Read More »

LA Getting Spicy Hot with X Games 13

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Today, LAX stands for Los Angeles X Games 2007 and not Los Angeles International Airport. Fans are rolling into town here in Los Angeles and Carson and practice runs for most events are over for the day. People flying past Carson may be wondering is that a plane? No, it was

Read More »

X Games 13 at Staples Center and Home Depot Center

X Games 13 kicks off today at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles and the Home Depot Center in Carson, California. The annual X Games is the premier action sports event in the world and it features athletes from across the planet competing for medals and prize money in sports such as MOTO X, BMX freestyle, Skateboarding, and Surfing. This is the fifth consecutive year that the action sports event is being held in Los Angeles.

Read More »

X Games 13 Hits Los Angeles

Extreme sports participants have been arriving at LAX since the weekend and X Games 13 kicks off in Los Angeles today. BMX pros began freestyle big air practice on Tuesday, July 31 and continued with big air practice on Wednesday. That may look like an ordinary chiropractic adjustment to some but it’s actually a right

Read More »

Ban on mercury in flu vaccines to be vetoed

This came across our email today… President Bush to veto ban on mercury in flu vaccines President Bush is to veto a bill that would ban mercury in flu vaccines for children despite its known links to autism and other neurological disorders and despite the fact that he pledged in 2004 to support such a

Read More »

Top 10 Reasons to get Chiropractic Adjustments

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Thought I’d share a top ten list we’ve used in our Los Angeles Chiropractic office for the past few years. It’s one of those things that took moments to create yet has been used and commented on nearly every day. People in our office love it! You’ll want to modify the

Read More »

Video of LA Chiropractor Goes Web 2.0 Viral

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. A few weeks ago someone contacted me to let me know that a chiropractic adjusting video, which was filmed during a lunch break in my LA office, was featured on the homepage of a social networking business website. Take a look at the screenshot below and then we’ll talk about it.

Read More »

Yellow Bags of Duplicate Content

by Michael Dorausch I’ve been meaning to post a photograph one of my chiropractic assistants took when phone books arrived at my ADIO Chiropractic office (in LA) earlier this year. Being in a major metro area like Los Angeles results in a bunch of phone book companies competing for local business. There are four different

Read More »

Migraines and Increased Risk of Stroke

Research from the Department of Neurology at the University of Maryland school of medicine is suggesting that women who suffer from migraines accompanied by visual symptoms (often called an aura) have a slight increased risk of stroke, especially if they are smokers, and/or use oral contraceptives.

Read More »

Chiropractors and Authors on Planet Chiropractic

It’s been over nine years since Planet Chiropractic began organizing news articles appearing on the website into an archived format. A reporter for a national newspaper recently asked me if I knew how many authors have provided articles to Planet Chiropractic and I didn’t know the exact answer. I estimated it was around 100 that have been published. I decided to do a search today through some author archives and I still don’t have an exact number of authors that have been published but I do have a much better idea than I did before the question was asked. What I discovered were submissions from approximately 70 chiropractic authors, a dozen non-chiropractors, and 14 organizations, including three chiropractic colleges and three national chiropractic associations.

Read More »

7 Reasons to Hire a Local Webdesigner

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I thought I wrote about this before but I can’t seem to currently find the post. A bunch of chiropractors were gathered around my ubuntu running laptop a few days ago and someone asked me the question I’ve been asked some thousand plus times before. Who should I hire to build

Read More »

Real Webmasters Eat Cheeseburgers

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I was about to do a post about going local when having a website built for a chiropractic office when I located this cheeseburger photograph in my Picassa2 browser. That’s no ordinary cheeseburger. I forget how big the hamburger patty was but it looks a half pound or more to me.

Read More »

Student wants to attend Cleveland in LA

Received this e-mail earlier today… HI ~ this is [name removed] who wants to attend chiropractic school. I am going to community college in San Jose. I’ve heard that Cleveland chiropractic school educates requirements classes. I believe I can save time with that program for attending chiropractic school. I appreciate if you send me information

Read More »
Sigafoose Parker Seminars 2001

Pushing 50 Years of Chiropractic

In 2 years I will have been a chiropractor for 50 years. Have I seen and learned anything? Yes, I found new chiropractors are fat already, lack motivation, and are willing to do whatever it takes to make a buck. That means treating symptoms, and or disease any way you can, with whatever seems to be popular.

Read More »

Denver Chiropractor Postcards Marketing Genius

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. All kinds of service industry businesses have companies that provide generic postcard templates covering a variety of topics. For example, in the profession of chiropractic, there are a number of companies that offer generic postcards with pictures of spines, pictures of hands, licensed cartoon characters endorsing chiropractic, motivational messages, and such.

Read More »

Matt Cutts Deserves Chiropractic

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Like many people involved in SEO, Matt Cutts is a hard-working individual. Matt works for Google and he is currently the head of the company’s website spam team. I suspect it’s not easy being the #2 Matt in the world (Matt Mullenweg of WordPress is #1) but that’s not likely the

Read More »

Getting Real About the Reality

By Sharon Gorman, D.C. Last Saturday afternoon Armand Rossi did a two hour training session for Chiropractors in my office between my Open House for the patients and our Philosophy Night at the Hotel. The entire day was awesome. At the end of his talk he asked us if we had any questions and I

Read More »

Chiropractors Internet Report August 2007

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Nice to have a big fat wireless WiFi connection when staying at hotels. Comes in super handy when you want to power up your Ubuntu Dell XPS (Windows crashed) and browse the net with friends and business colleagues. Interacted with dozens of chiropractors from the United States and Canada this past

Read More »

Chiropractic and Wellness Gold Card

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I spent some time hanging out with other chiropractors recently in Scottsdale, Arizona. I was attending a chiropractic seminar at the prestigious Arizona Biltmore Hotel (what a spectacular place) and while I was there I collected a bunch of chiropractic business cards and postcards so that I could share them with

Read More »

Lucky 13 X Games Fall for Skater Jake Brown

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Big Air Skateboarder Jake Brown fell nearly 50 feet last night at X Games 13. In a crowd shocker, after lying there for almost 5 minutes, Brown got up and walked it off. I’ve been at events like these for years and one thing I’ve learned from extreme action sports people

Read More »

4 Steps to Chiropractic Music Business Success

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. I was at breakfast with a group of friends last Saturday and a conversation came up regarding success stories in the music industry. First, this is no ordinary group of guys talking about music. Second, I had my laptop. You may be asking yourself “what kind of a nerd brings a

Read More »

LA Getting Spicy Hot with X Games 13

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Today, LAX stands for Los Angeles X Games 2007 and not Los Angeles International Airport. Fans are rolling into town here in Los Angeles and Carson and practice runs for most events are over for the day. People flying past Carson may be wondering is that a plane? No, it was

Read More »

X Games 13 at Staples Center and Home Depot Center

X Games 13 kicks off today at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles and the Home Depot Center in Carson, California. The annual X Games is the premier action sports event in the world and it features athletes from across the planet competing for medals and prize money in sports such as MOTO X, BMX freestyle, Skateboarding, and Surfing. This is the fifth consecutive year that the action sports event is being held in Los Angeles.

Read More »

X Games 13 Hits Los Angeles

Extreme sports participants have been arriving at LAX since the weekend and X Games 13 kicks off in Los Angeles today. BMX pros began freestyle big air practice on Tuesday, July 31 and continued with big air practice on Wednesday. That may look like an ordinary chiropractic adjustment to some but it’s actually a right

Read More »

Ban on mercury in flu vaccines to be vetoed

This came across our email today… President Bush to veto ban on mercury in flu vaccines President Bush is to veto a bill that would ban mercury in flu vaccines for children despite its known links to autism and other neurological disorders and despite the fact that he pledged in 2004 to support such a

Read More »

Top 10 Reasons to get Chiropractic Adjustments

By Michael Dorausch, D.C. Thought I’d share a top ten list we’ve used in our Los Angeles Chiropractic office for the past few years. It’s one of those things that took moments to create yet has been used and commented on nearly every day. People in our office love it! You’ll want to modify the

Read More »