Author: chiropractic

Chiropractor reports on the magnitude 7.9 earthquake that struck Peru on August 15th, 2007. The following appeared on my desk via e-mail from someone I know in the Los Angeles community.

The 2007 September Labor Day holiday is officially over and children across the United States are heading back to school. In the spirit of the school yard, we took a review of some school related articles posted to Planet Chiropractic during the past several years, and organized them here.

A leading global rating agency reported this week with a negative outlook on the newspaper industry. The less than positive outlook was a result of poor profits in the area of classified advertising affecting print publications.

September 18, 2007 will mark 112 years since the first chiropractic adjustment was made by DD Palmer, the world’s first chiropractor, at the Ryan building in Davenport, Iowa. The profession of chiropractic has helped millions live healthier lives, without the use of dangerous drugs and surgeries. After more than a century of success, what the world needs now, is more chiropractors.

Chiropractors are the leading drug-free health care professional in the world. With the recent focus placed on performance enhancing drugs and sports, chiropractors have a great opportunity to become leaders in the push towards the advancement of drug-free athletics.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a California state budget on Friday that was nearly 2 months overdue. Video news coverage of the event appearing on Google owned YouTube has been embedded to the Google News homepage, allowing visitors to Google News to view video coverage without leaving the news page.

Google’s video sharing site, YouTube, has been more popular than ever, and the company is looking to profit from that. Online advertising, thanks to platforms like AdWords, has been at the center of Google’s massive success. Google has announced they will begin testing a new advertising platform, using videos appearing on YouTube, to carry advertiser content.

There will be a special gathering of women chiropractors in Las Vegas on Friday, September 14, 2007. The breakfast will begin at 8 a.m. [ The following information is intended for Doctors of Chiropractic – visit the Planet Chiropractic homepage for planetc1 general news. ]

The term wellness is becoming common and being used by many holistic care groups to describe the type of care they are offering. In an effort to better understand its definition, I looked it up in various dictionaries. Merriam Webster defines wellness as “the quality or state of being in good health especially as an actively sought goal.” From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I read, “Wellness is generally used to mean a healthy balance of the mind-body and spirit that results in an overall feeling of well-being… In other words, wellness is a view of health that emphasizes the state of the entire being and its ongoing development.”

Whether you’re an investor, a local business owner, or both, this article on yellow page directories will help you to better understand who’s engaging the consumer, and who’s left their online phonebook on a virtual doorstep, still waiting for it to be picked up.

Google News began a new feature earlier this month that allows people and organizations mentioned in news articles to post comments about the news they were mentioned in. Google posted a “heads-up” on this new, experimental feature, on their Google News blog page, on August 7th.

A self proclaimed mad scientist and disruptive technologist is doing a hell of a job disrupting massive amounts of previously thought anonymous entries on Wikipedia, the anybody can edit online encyclopedia. We covered news on the WikiScanner yesterday, and the past 24 hours has brought forward a firestorm of information on hundreds of previously unconnected, juicy page edits.

The Journal of Vertebral Subluxation Research (JVSR), a peer-reviewed scientific journal dedicated to research in the field of chiropractic, is celebrating their 10th year as a research publication.

Caltech graduate student creates WikiScanner which apparently exposes previously thought anonymous Wikipedia entries created by corporations and organizations.

Big Vaccine (son of Big Pharma) has been busy in Sacramento helping lawmakers come up with a scheme to do away with the annoying problem of public opposition to new vaccine mandates. After all, if it weren’t for pesky parental opposition during legislative review, the controversial HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccine for young girls would already be on the long list of “mandatory” vaccines for California school children.

What do Candace Michelle, Beyoncé, the X Games, and Van Halen have in common? Two are related to music, two are related to sports (if you consider WWE wrestling a sport), two are female, all are somewhat entertaining, and all have appeared recently in the news.

The 2007 PGA championship has been a sizzling topic in this weeks news with Tiger Woods leading in this year’s 89th annual major golf event, taking place in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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.

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.

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.