Healthcare Update
ICA’s Council on Wellness Science Launches Certification Program
ICA’s newly chartered council on wellness science will launch its innovative
postgraduate certification program in chiropractic and wellness starting September
25-26, in San Francisco. Co-sponsored by Life Chiropractic College West, this
practical research and science-based program offers practitioners a powerful
exploration of prevention, wellness and chiropractic’s role in this vitally
important dimension of health and healing.
“This is, without any doubt, chiropractic’s most exciting new frontier
because it addresses head on the most vital and compelling health issues of
our era,” says ICA President Dr. CJ Mertz. “This new program is
anchored in chiropractic’s neurological focus, but takes our understanding
of the global impact of the nervous system to a new level, fully based and referenced
in the research record.”
The new wellness certification program involves four onsite modules dealing
with chiropractic and the subluxation, wellness nutrition, exercise and fitness
and stress management, but also includes four in-depth home-study components
that require designated reading and written submissions to fulfill the learning
goals of those at-home segments. Followed by an extensive written examination
following completion of all eight modules, this is an exacting and demanding
program, at the highest standard of learning.
“This program will equip the DC with cutting edge strategies and information
to be the most effective influence for health in their communities and an invaluable
wellness resource for their patients,” said Wellness Science Council Chairman
Dr. James Chestnut. “This unique program is designed to make participants
the ‘evidence-based’ wellness experts for their communities. This
series is built upon the research record and brings together all of the elements
necessary to act in the wellness realm with clinical effectiveness, professional
confidence and complete integrity.”
For more information on this program, including the status of re-licensure credit
for the states and provinces, call 800-423-4690 or visit www.chiropractic.org/pdf/wellnessapplication.PDF.
Most Dangerous Sports: Basketball, Cycling
Basketball and cycling are the most injury-prone sports, a new report shows, and
football and soccer follow closely behind. The report from the Consumer Products
Safety Commission shows that 1.6 million basketball-related injuries were treated
last year—in hospitals, doctors’ offices, ambulatory surgery centers,
clinics and hospital emergency rooms. Bicyclists racked up nearly 1.3 million
injuries; football scored 1 million; soccer tallied a little less than 500,000
injuries.
Hudec Becomes First DC to Graduate from Military Residency Program
For the first time in history, a doctor of chiropractic has graduated from a military
hospital residency program, alongside medical residents, interns and fellows,
after completing a fellowship in integrative medicine at the National Naval Medical
Center (NNMC) in Bethesda, Md. The history-making graduation of Dr. Joanna Hudec,
which took place on June 18, is seen by many as one of the clearest signs to date
that chiropractic is gaining critical acceptance from the traditional medical
community.
Known as the “president’s hospital” because it is the site at
which sitting U.S. presidents receive care, NNMC is considered the “hub”
of medicine in the United States. The hospital also keeps American troops ready
to fight, thus protecting us all.
“For chiropractic care to be integrated into a program within the most hallowed
halls of medicine is an unparalleled step for this profession,” says ACA
President Dr. Donald Krippendorf.
U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, M.D., who was a keynote speaker at the graduation
which included about 300 medical interns, residents and fellows, congratulated
Dr. Hudec for her efforts.
Milk vs. Soft Drinks Study
In one of the first studies to examine the role of dairy and soda consumption
on weight in adolescent girls, researchers from the University of Hawaii report
that girls who consumed more dairy products weighed less than their peers who
ate the same number of calories. Drinking soft drinks was also associated with
increased body fat.
According to government health figures, 15 percent of the teens in the U.S. were
overweight in 2000, compared with 10 percent just a decade earlier. Between 1965
and 1996, milk consumption among teenagers declined by 36 percent while the consumption
of soft drinks has almost doubled.
The newly reported study included 323 white and Asian girls between the ages of
9 and 14. The girls were asked to record everything they ate for three days, and
physical activity history was also recorded along with weight. The researchers
also measured skinfold thickness to determine body fat.
Girls who consumed more dairy products were found to have slimmer middles than
girls of the same age and ethnicity who ate the same number of calories and got
the same amount of exercise. Girls who drank more soda, but also ate the same
total calories, tended to be heavier. The findings are published in the September
issue of the Journal of Nutrition.
Can Tooth Whiteners Cause Oral Cancer?
Georgetown University Hospital researchers say the active ingredient in two popular
teeth whiteners may be the reason why two patients with no other identifiable
risk factors developed advanced tongue cancer while in their 20s.
These popular tooth whiteners, whose use has tripled since 2001, are one of several
possible explanations why there’s been an increase in oral cancers in young
people. About 90 percent of these cancers occur in people after age 45, usually
the result of long-term smoking and drinking.
“But when these patients don’t have a significant history of this
use, you start to wonder what else they are being exposed to,” says Dr.
Bruce Davidson, chairman of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at the hospital.
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