By: Susan Hoy, CA Let me ask you a question: If you could visualize your most successful practice, what would it look like? Think about if for a few moments. My guess is that you are visualizing a reception room full of patients. There is a balance of new patients and maintenance patients. They are
By: Stanley Greenfield, RHU Many years ago, I sat back and wondered why the day just seemed to fly by, and I never seemed to have enough time to accomplish all the tasks that I needed to do. Even when I planned my day, something always seemed to come along and the best laid plans
By: Susan Hoy, CA The past year has been a very busy one for me. Balancing my job as office manager of a busy Chiropractic office, producing my newsletter for Chiropractic offices, and traveling throughout the country giving seminars for Chiropractors and staff has been quite hectic, to say the least. It also has been
By: Susan Hoy, CA It all started in late November with a simple little decision to upgrade our computer system. It seemed quite harmless. We decided to network our computers through Windows 8 instead of our old 98’ network and to upgrade our existing Chiropractic software to the new Windows environment, too. I used to
By: Monte H. Greenawalt, DC, DABCO The well-disciplined Doctor of Chiropractic has learned to look at the patient as a whole person. Humans are inseparable, and each part is dependent upon the related parts. We are a group of integrated and interrelated components. In Chiropractic college we concentrated on the spine and justly so. We
By: Susan Hoy “Our schedule is out of control! We have patients coming late, coming early, walking in, and not showing up at all. How do we begin to solve this problem?” Whenever I present a scheduling seminar, I get many questions like this one. Often, when I go to an office to help them
By: Kurt Vreeland, DC, DICAK, DABCN, DACAN, FACCN Throughout the history of Chiropractic, a common theme in trying to alleviate patient suffering has been the correction of posture. Regardless of the particular technique practiced, there always seems to be a common denominator in the restoration of “normal” posture. Sometimes the problem is that we can’t
By: Mark N. Charrette, DC Stress fractures are a common cause of foot pain, especially in the active population.1 Patients will report a dull, aching pain sensation in the foot that is often poorly localized (Fig. 1). The nagging pain increases during weightbearing and gait, and often remains for a while after use. It commonly subsides
By: Tim Maggs, DC As my plane touched down at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport in April, 1999, I felt a sense of excitement. I was scheduled to spend the next three days in the Chicago Bulls’ locker room with Coach Al Vermeil, the head strength and conditioning coach for the Bulls. Coach Vermeil had helped take
By: John K. Hyland, D.C., DACBR DABCO, Terry R. Yochum, D.C., DACBR, and Michael S. Barry, D.C., DACBR Bone Marrow Edema and Postural Misalignment: A Preliminary Report Download PDF Now
By: Larry Markson, DC, Bob Hoffman, DC, and Dennis Perman, DC We as a society are more “stressed-out” than ever before. Today, the stress of careers, deadlines, conflicts, family—as well as demands on our time and money—take a huge toll on our health and well-being. Just as a chain breaks at its weakest link,
By: Susan Hoy The new year is a good time to take a look around your office and begin to become better organized. As I have explained over and over again, patients do not want to come to a disorganized, stressful, messy office—nor will they refer friends and family to such a place. Additionally, being
By: William D. Esteb “Not Invented Here” Personality, tableside manner, a sense of humor and millions of other subtle details affect patient compliance. In the midst of this complex equation is the importance of patient education. Making sure patients appreciate the value of their orthotics is more than a marketing overture. It is an essential
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By: Dennis Perman, DC If you want your practice to grow, you have to make sure your patients are satisfied with your services. Unfortunately, many patients come to our offices with little or no exposure to the Chiropractic point of view, so they tend to behave as they would in other professionals’ offices, unless we
By: Maurice A. Pisciottano, D.C. Many people make New Year’s resolutions that begin on January 1st. Perhaps to eat healthy? Maybe to exercise more? How about reducing stress? So many good intentions are there…. And, believe it or not, these resolutions almost always have at least something to do with health, fitness, wellness, weight loss, feeling better, or
By: Larry Markson, DC Being Doctors of Chiropractic, we know there is a cause for every effect and an effect for every cause. Consequently, there must be a cause for all of the chaos and confusion that has dominated the Chiropractic profession in recent years. In my life-long study into the principles of success, I
By: William M. Austin, DC, CCSP, CCRD Over and over again, the weightbearing casting method has been shown to be the most reliable, accurate, and effective process for creating custom-made foot orthotics. The question as to which type of orthotic is the best for your patients has been settled, too: Foot Levelers’ functional orthotics work
By: Chris Akey, DC I get asked a lot of questions by my colleagues regarding Foot Levelers’ custom-made functional orthotics. For example, “How do the feet affect the back?” There is a definite mechanical component here, but I want to focus on a more vitalistic approach: prevention. If you have read any of my “Firm
By: Kathy Mills Chang If You Don’t Ask, You Don’t Get! Recently I was asked, “What’s the most effective tip you can give regarding increasing collections in an office?” I hesitated giving the answer that made the most sense to me, because I feared it would sound flippant. Then I gave my answer anyway: “The
