Kinesiology 3325A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: American Medical Association, Back Pain, Spinal Manipulation
4 Apr 2018
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Ama (american medical association) contain and eliminate conspiracy they thought that chiropractors could be a threat to the medical association. Private practice model (cid:449)o(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e fou(cid:374)d i(cid:374) hospitals. Institutional involvement increasing: representation in various university departments, official care providers at olympics since 1980, michael reed head of the performance services unit in the olympic committee. Solution: guidelines for chiropractic quality assurance and practice parameters; aka (cid:862)me(cid:396)(cid:272)y guideli(cid:374)es(cid:863) Covers aspects such as diagnostic imaging, record keeping, frequency and duration of care, outcome assessment, complications, etc. Chiropractors: conventional medical physicians engage in too much symptom suppression. Chiropractors have refrained from assuming the site of the symptom is the site of the cause; trace nerve pathway to and from site. Walking, sitting, lifting, standing, sleeping, twisting, bending. Total score based on 10 sections: pain intensity, personal care, lifting, walking, sitting, standing, sleeping, sex life, social life, travelling. Usually no treatment is needed except for advice on lifting sitting and exercise.
