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• April Marks National Backpack Safety Month •
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To provide awareness of backpack safety, April has been declared National Backpack Safety Month. Research shows that a majority of students carry more than the recommended weight levels in their backpacks and sustaining significant injury that may last a lifetime. The Backpack Safety program educates students, parents and teachers about the health issues of backpacks and related injuries, and teaches children how they should carry backpacks correctly.
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| SOURCE: http://www.cocsa.org |
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• Chiropractic Top Choice for Natural Treatment of Pain •
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A survey conducted by Media General, a Richmond, Virginia firm, found that chiropractic is the top natural choice for treating pain. Of those consumers participating in the telephone survey, 60 percent said they would seek medical care if injured and suffering from back or neck pain; 23 percent said they would go to the chiropractor - more than the combined results for physical therapists (seven percent), massage therapists (four percent) and acupuncturists (one percent).
The survey also found while drug use was the most popular treatment for headaches, the number two choice was chiropractic.
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| SOURCE: PR Newswire, Feb. 21, 2002. |
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• PTs Cannot Provide Manipulation Under Medicare •
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently issued a new policy directive that, under Medicare, physical therapists cannot provide manual manipulation of the spine to correct a subluxation. In a recent revision to an Operational Policy Letter originally issued in 1994, Medicare's Center for Beneficiary Choices writes: "The (Medicare) statute specifically references manual manipulation of the spine to correct a subluxation as a physician service. Thus, Medicare+Choice organizations must use physicians, which include chiropractors, to perform this service. They may not use non-physician physical therapists for manual manipulation of the spine to correct a subluxation."
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| SOURCE: American Chiropractic Association Legal Department, Feb. 6, 2002. |
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• Three New Chiropractic Studies Underway •
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While the efficacy of chiropractic treatment for acute/chronic low back pain and certain types of persistent headaches is well established, Western States Chiropractic College (WSCC) in Portland, Oregon, is furthering this research with three new studies. Two of the studies address the question of how the frequency of chiropractic treatments affects the overall outcome of the therapy regimen. The third involves looking at the effectiveness of a particular chiropractic diagnostic technique. WSCC is part of three research centers funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine through the National Institutes of Health (NCCAM/NIH).
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| SOURCE: PR Newswire, March 1, 2002. |
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