Planet Chiropractic News Celebrates One Year Anniversary

Not all readers of Planet Chiropractic need information about upcoming seminars and events specific to chiropractors practicing in the industry, but we post this information for those seeking to keep up-to-date on what potential seminars are in the pipeline. I attend an enormous amount of conferences and events, many not related to chiropractic, and those (such as Barcamp San Diego) occasionally get covered on the blog pages.

From Dr. Kerry T. Kilpatrick and the Michigan Chiropractic Council “At its heart the medical cartel is not medical at all. It is concerned with controlling populations!” Jon Rappoport Dear Doctors, I have a GREAT example of the ever increasing paradigm shift in the health arena. Following the ICA convention my wife and I attended…

There are lots of ways that chiropractors collect payments from those receiving chiropractic care. Many chiropractor offices except credit cards, checks, and cash. Payment can come from insurance companies, attorneys offices, health-care savings accounts, and many other sources. I know chiropractors that even offer programs such as care-credit which allows consumers to finance amounts such as $4000 towards packages of chiropractic care. With all the methods of payments being accepted, I hadn’t heard nor seen any chiropractors using online payment processing services to pay for chiropractic adjustments, until now.

The longest day of the year is here, Sunday is the first day of summer for 2009, taking us into the approaching summer solstice (June 21 at 05:45). In case you’re wondering, the solstice is an astronomical event that occurs twice each year, when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is most inclined toward or away from the Sun, resulting the Sun’s apparent position in the sky to reach its northernmost or southernmost extreme. Opposite from Summer, the winter solstice is the shortest day of the year.

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.