Adjustment Centric, Wellness Focused and Evidence-based: 21st Century Chiropractic

In this era of evidence-based care, it is imperative that practitioners are aware of the available evidence and are able to implement it into clinical practice. There is confusion regarding what represents evidence-based interventions within the chiropractic scope of practice, and this is reflected in clinical practice to the detriment of both patients and the profession. The purpose of this course is to educate the practitioner about what interventions meet the standard of evidence-based care and to encourage them to implement these interventions as the core of their clinical protocols.Our speaker will provide a summary, comparison, and contrasting of the level of evidence regarding effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and safety for surgery, drugs, injections, physical therapy modalities, specialized exercise protocols, soft tissue techniques, and chiropractic adjustment/SMT for patients suffering with non-traumatic, non-infectious, non-neoplasmic spinal health conditions. He will demonstrate once and for all that the chiropractic adjustment/SMT, exercise, and lifestyle intervention are the most evidence-based interventions within the scope of chiropractic practice and thus should form the core of chiropractic clinical practice in the 21st Century.

• •Evaluate and compare the quality of evidence supporting various interventions (surgery, pharmaceuticals, injections, physical therapy, exercise protocols, soft tissue techniques, and spinal manipulation) for non-traumatic spinal conditions
• •Identify which clinical interventions meet the gold standard for evidence-based care within the chiropractic scope of practice
• •Analyze cost-effectiveness and safety profiles across different treatment modalities to inform clinical decision-making
• •Implement evidence-based adjustment/SMT protocols as the foundation of contemporary chiropractic clinical practice
• •Integrate exercise and lifestyle interventions with appropriate evidence ratings into patient care plans
• •Distinguish between evidence-based and non-evidence-based practices to improve patient outcomes and professional credibility