Aligned For Excellence

05/29/2017

Great coaching principles to apply to your rehab room.

As you progress through a career in the fitness industry, it’s easy to fall into the complexity trap. In other words, the more you learn, the more prone you are to making things overly complex with…

05/23/2017

Did you see that NGS Medicare updated their Chiropractic LCD on May 15th? Go to ngsmedicare.com to download the new version. It includes language that we need to document that we discussed risks with the patient before adjusting among other changes. The new LCD will be covered in our July Billing and Documentation Boot Camp For Chiropractic Physicians.

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05/21/2017

05/20/2017

Do you send email newsletters to your patients? Check out these tips on the best time to send your newsletter, subject lines and formatting to improve your open and click through rate. https://coschedule.com/blog/best-time-to-send-email/

Unsure what the best time to send email marketing newsletters might be? Dig into findings from 10 studies and improve your email open rates right now.

05/11/2017

Due to several requests, I will be teaching the Billing and Documentation for Chiropractic Physicians Boot Camp again this summer. How does the weekend of July 22-23 work for everyone? As discussed in January at the first Boot Camp, I will also teach a class on functional testing & assessment, documentation and structuring rehab treatment plans. How does August 19-20 work? It will be at the Holiday Inn in Itasca -- bigger venue!

04/22/2017

Looking for an efficient way to test and diagnose sciatica or lumbar radiculopathy? Check out this article that you can apply Monday! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2647081/ #!po=21.1538

The purpose is to describe active and passive physical maneuvers that provoke or alleviate lumbosacral radiculopathy and/or sciatica to demonstrate how these maneuvers function in common orthopedic and neurological tests/signs.Descriptions of the maneuvers ...

03/25/2017

Great injury prevention (and training) principles from Strong First. Many of these thoughts apply to rehab as well as strength/conditioning. How well do you assess, plan and execute your rehab treatment protocols? http://www.strongfirst.com/ounce-injury-prevention-worth-kilogram-cure/

03/23/2017

Use functional testing to uncover the key link for your patient's pain? Here's a great article on the prone hip extension test. It compares patients with and without back pain. Always make sure your orthopedic and functional testing is valid and has research behind it. Just because a guru says it works doesn't mean you should use it in clinical practice.

Prone hip extension (PHE) is a common and widely accepted test used for assessment of the lumbo-pelvic movement pattern. Considerable increased in lumbar lordosis during this test has been considered as impairment of movement patterns in lumbo-pelvic region. The purpose of this study was to investig...

03/04/2017

Are you willing to challenge status quo and not be a slave to a technique, procedure or system? Are tou willing to treat each patient as n=1? An interesting read intended for the lay person.

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02/16/2017

It's important to let your patients know you have to put in the work too and are a real person. Easy (free) marketing idea. :)

Thursday workout is complete at Crossfit Roselle. Prepped with hip mobility and rotating planks. Did great at the shoulder press and deadlift! Now to go get ready for patients today at the office. Got to practice what you teach! www.ducatchiropractic.com - Bloomingdale IL

02/10/2017

An excellent article about avoiding rehab purgatory. Are you holding your patients back in active, medically necessary care when they should be set free to move more and switch to wellness care? Is this adding unnecessary visits to your treatment plans? Do you have discharge criteria? Are they reasonable and patient focused. An interesting thought!

There may be no term more polarizing in our sports performance and fitness industries than functional training over the past decade. But in lieu of it’s popularity, it’s apparent that people simply don’t know the true meaning, theory or application of this type of training methodology. Luckily, we h...