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JOURNAL CLUB MEETING
Next FCER Journal Club "Meeting"
- May 22, 2008
Led
by Michael Schneider, DC, the next teleconference meeting of the FCER
Journal Club will be held on May 22, 2008. As the discussion leader, Dr.
Schneider has chosen "Atlas vertebra realignment and achievement of arterial
pressure goal in hypertensive patients: a pilot study" as the focus of the
meeting (the abstract of the study appears
here).
To register for the
FREE teleconference, please
click
here. The teleconference is limited to 100 participants so register early!
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CD NOW AVAILABLE
Lead Author of Spine
Article Discusses Findings on Neck Pain, Stroke, and Chiropractic
Treatment
The recent FCER Teleconference by Dr. J. David Cassidy, principal investigator of a new study in the
February 15 issue of Spine, is now available on CD.
In this Canadian study, entitled "Risk of
Vertebrobasilar Stroke and Chiropractic Care: Results of a Population-Based,
Case-Control and Case-Crossover Study,"1 the team of
researchers concludes that there is "no evidence of excess risk of VBA
stroke associated [with] chiropractic care compared to primary care."
CD includes the audio recording and
speaker's notes.
Available here
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CALL FOR PAPERS
WFC & FCER's ICCR --
Montreal 2009
Doctors of chiropractic and others are invited to submit
original research for presentation at the World Federation
of Chiropractic's and Foundation for Chiropractic Education
and Research's International Conference on Chiropractic
Research, part of the WFC's 10th Biennial Congress to be
held April 30-May 2, 2009 at the Hilton Bonaventure Hotel,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Approximately 100 papers will be given platform (32) and
poster (68) presentation. There are awards of $10,000 (the
Scott Haldeman prize), $5,000 and $3,000 for best research
papers and $2,000 for the best paper from a clinician in
private practice. Research awards are generously sponsored by
the NCMIC Insurance Company (National Chiropractic Mutual
Insurance Company). Award-winning papers will be published in
the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT).
For categories of research, submission procedures and all
other information visit
www.wfc.org/congress2009 or contact Robin R. Merrifield,
ICCR Coordinator, at
FCERedit@aol.com
Deadline for abstracts: January 15, 2009
For more information
click
here.
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