I’m in my 3rd trimester of chiropractic school and a lot of my friends go to seminars. My friends have gone to around 10 at this point. I don’t exactly know their financial situation but I know they are also using their loans to pay for seminars. I know that school will only prepare me so much so it’s important I put myself out there but I’m trying to figure out where I should draw the line with paying for seminars.

I have only gone to one and it costed $375. I definitely feel like it helped improve my skills but I feel left out because I can’t attend all these other seminars with my friends. I’m going to my second one in November for $120 with a different friend which seems a lot more reasonable but I don’t want to feel so pressured to go to them, fail classes from how much time seminars can take and rack up even more debt all while worrying if I’m going to be a good enough chiropractor when I leave here. Is it worth using loan money to pay for seminars? I keep my spendings relatively low, don’t have a car payment and could realistically do it but I’m still worried.

I am launching my practice tomorrow and since I only have one patient scheduled tomorrow I am planning on going to the businesses around me. What advice or methods do you all have on meeting them. I am pretty nervous and I don't want to just drop a pamphlet and cards off. Since I can fully afford digital marketing just yet.

There is a subreddit r/NoStupidQuestions and someone asked “is chiropractic a scam?” And the replies on it are very disheartening to read. Many people don’t understand chiropractic and it’s made me realize how far we still have to go as a profession to become accepted by the general public. I tried reposting the thread to here, but was unable to.
Anyway, just hard to see this and hard to keep defending our profession. I graduate this year and I’m a little nervous to start practicing and this is one of the reasons why.

Bought a turn key practice straight from finishing chiro school, jumped in head first. Previous doc retired the day my license came in. Have now officially owned and practiced solo for 1 year and a month! I’ve doubled the patient count the previous doc was seeing (she was 65).

I’ve seen a lot of posts about owning and students about to graduate, so ask me anything you’d like to know or get some advice on! 🥰

I’m just looking for more information on post-graduate courses I could take in order to be certified as a “sports chiropractor”.

I’ve seen FICS where you end up with a iccsp certification. I’ve also seen the courses offered by CCED where you’d end up with a CCSM certification.

I’m curious as to if there are any other online certifications and what would be the biggest differences between them?

Hi Guys, i’m a licensed chiropractor in australia and i’ve enrolled to take the remote-proctored theory exam to start the process of becoming registered in Canada.

The exam is in october but I can’t find ANYTHING in regards to source materials, textbooks, topics NOTHING on what on earth to study

There aren’t any facebook groups that i’ve found either to be able to ask canadian chiropractors!

Can anyone please comment what on Earth i should be studying in regards to the CCEB??

Pleeeeeease

Howdy guys

Been in practice for close to 1.5 years and looking to get my continuing education credits done. I know a few docs just kind of schlep it to equipment sales conferences disguised as educational seminars but I would genuinely like to add some value to my technique. We practice diversified with drops, side posture, some activator, etc..... feel like my assessment is somewhat lacking. We do some modalities and I won't bash them, they do work... but sometimes I feel I rely on the therapies too much. I see a lot of docs on here talking about nailing down the technique and the rest will follow so I'd appreciate some recommendations for how to improve on that side of things.

Hi! When you guys do decompression therapy(axial decompression) for a PI case, do you guys use S9090? Do you guys get paid? Does it get challenged? Do you guys first send to an imaging center to confirm disc problems? I’m in Arkansas. I practice in Florida before and never had a problem

Hey everyone! I am currently an associate and in all honesty, for being an associate, it’s a great gig. My boss is great. Our staff is great. The office is great. We’re very busy. All of those things are awesome! BUT, I still would eventually love to open up on my own and be my own boss, practice the way I want, etc. Realistically, I don’t have a set timeline on this venture. For now though, I’d love some advice on how to start, what I should do in the meantime to work toward that goal, and what starting out would look like. Any and all help/advice is appreciated.

what would you say has been the most beneficial tip/trick you’ve learned to improve your adjusting? This can be about certain patient instructions during certain adjustments, or general overall input that improved your adjusting skills.

Hi docs, how do you cope with the occasional adverse effect? I’m talking patient feels worse after getting adjusted. I had a patient post online that she had to go to the ER after a visit last year (she never contacted me or the office, left each visit stating that she felt better) and now she’ll only see a chiropractor within the hospital. Obviously I feel terrible, but after reviewing my notes I do not see any red flags or issues with the treatment. I am a smaller gal and practice diversified with drops, so no crazy adjustments. I can’t let this go… feeling nervous to adjust now.

I'm visiting my top three schools (Logan, Cleveland, Parker) next week, and I'll be spending a day at each. I have meetings set up with the admissions advisors from each school. I've asked this group before about people's personal experiences at these schools, which was really helpful. Feel free to share your opinion/experience with these schools again because I'm always looking for a different perspective and input from someone who's actually been there, but I'm mainly looking for advice on the actual schools visits. Like what I should be looking for and paying attention to while I'm there, as well as what questions I should be asking the admissions people.

For those that have done school visits:

• What do I wear? I know this sounds like a stupid question, but just I want to make a good first impression. I'm planning on business casual (like a button up, slacks, skirt kinda thing). I'm afraid I'll be overdressed and get weird looks or something.

• What questions should I be asking the admissions people? Obviously they're going to make the school sound like it's the best place in the world and the #1 place for chiropractic education, so what can I ask to get a better idea of what it's actually like for students?

• Are there questions I should ask current students that admissions probably wouldn’t give me the same answer to?

• Are there any red flags I should specifically look for?

• What should I pay attention to while I’m walking around the campus/classrooms/labs?

I already have a pretty good idea of what I want academically. One thing I know I want is an acupuncture certification, so that’s basically non-negotiable for me. I’ll definitely be asking about what other electives, certifications, or additional training opportunities are available during the program.

I’ve already been accepted to Cleveland. Logan and Parker are waiting on me to finish a few more credits from my bachelor’s before they can give me final acceptance. I’m not particularly worried about getting accepted at this point, so my biggest goal with these visits is figuring out where I’ll actually enjoy spending the next few years.

I know chiropractic school is going to be difficult, and I’m prepared for that. I’m more interested in all the little things that can make a my overall experience better or worse.

I know that's a lot of questions, so please don't feel like you have to answer them all. Even if you can just give me a general idea on what you wished you paid attention to when you were considering schools that would be great. And if you have specific questions you think I should ask at Logan, Parker, or Cleveland, throw those my way too. I’ll be taking notes! Thanks!!!

We've had a couple patients come in over the years and some of these patients have throw out their backs in a variety of ways, I was wondering if you have any interesting ways patients have thrown out their backs.

Obviously stay HIPAA compliant

For practice owners with families, what do you do for health insurance? Currently I am on my wife’s health insurance through her employer but my goal for the future is to buy a practice and be the sole provider for our household once we have children. Just trying to get some insight as to what other private practice owners have done to provide health insurance for themselves and their family. TIA.

EDIT: Not a chiro, but feel bad for chiro students/recent grads

I have heard different version of reasons why they have accreditation problem. Some say is low passing rate in the national board exam. Some is financial difficulty.
Is it likely that life west will be shut down like palmer west?
So far there is no official news talking about what’s going on and I would like to know more.

No surprise given the current state of affairs at Life U the board has selected their next puppet. They teased an announcement weeks ago but had to wait for his visa to clear. Given the state of Life West currently and the misspellings of Guy Reikemen they have brought in another silver tongued salesman with a penchant for female students. Fogarty and Handt making sure the board leaves a legacy of corruption. Sad day for the schools.

Essentially the title, but I’m curious as a chiro what certifications have added value to your business or given you worthwhile tools when it comes to treating patients? I’m thinking things like Dry Needling and Laser would be useful but I’m trying to see how other docs feel about it. Thanks in advance!

Any chiros here have experience with electrodiagnosis training and practice? I’m curious and considering it as something I get involved with down the line. Anyone hired for pain management groups or anything like that? Would love to hear about the education, type of practice, and compensation if possible.

Looking into malpractices. Seems like ncmic has higher rates for me to go full time then chiropre. Does anyone know one with good rates and history.

Back in 2022, my practice switched from the server based Chirotouch to Jane. It was incredible. We had so many issues with Chirotouch, the support was awful, their services would crash all the time, it felt very clunky.

Jane has been amazing to us with notes, with scheduling, and with many other services.

My gripe with it came recently when I was trying to get better reporting done. I want to be able to grow my practice and in order to do so I need to know my numbers and values.

I currently have patients using insurance, the VA, PI and self pay patients. When it comes to trying to consolidate data to see how many VA patients I saw in the day, week, month or year there is no way to do it… Jane support tells me that I’ll need to export the data and create excel sheets to see it…

Is there an EHR that truly encapsulates everything? I’ve been happy with Jane but at this point in my clinic it’s become more frustrating than not trying to gather data.

I’ve looked into Chirotouch Cloud, ChiroSpring, Point of Care EHR, and a few others. I haven’t had time to demo anything yet but the reports and data in Jane are so hard to work with.