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Asian Heritage Cultivates Courageous Chiropractors

– By Joyce Yeung & Melinda Pham – As an international student from Hong Kong, I think of chiropractic as a culture. A culture among the many in the health care system. Modern medicine ...

How D’You Know?

by Bri Lange & Austin Bergquist The very first thing I do when a child [i.e. kid] comes to see me at the clinic, is establish a bond with the parent or caregiver, making sure that the child sees t...

All Else Follows

by Nolan Halverson You have the opportunity to be a chiropractor because chiropractic is a profession. Chiropractic is a profession because Chiropractic saves lives. In the fall of 2016, a 17-year-old...

Why Research?

 by Alexis Griffith “PRIMUM NON NOCERE” – FIRST, DO NO HARM. ALL CHIROPRACTORS SHOULD STRIVE TO ABIDE BY THIS DICTUM, REGARDLESS OF THEIR SCOPE OF PRACTICE. One way in which we can a...

See The Forest

By Dana Bergquist “Subluxation is a symptom of interference and not a cause” – Dr. B.J. Palmer – We learn from the very beginning of chiropractic college that disease is caused by subluxat...

Associations and the Squeaky Wheel

by Sara Parsons Between juggling a loaded class schedule, clubs, clinic, and for many of us a part-time job, imagine throwing in the mix researching position and political advocacy articles from multi...

What Happens When We Die? 

There are 3 things that are guaranteed in life: birth, change, and death. We are often enthusiastic to talk about the start of life, but conversations about death are perhaps less than comfortable. Mo...

33 Principles of Chiropractic Reconsidered for the Post Modern* and/or *Deconstructionist DC

“Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 founder of Transcendentalism, author, poet, philosopher This paper is dedicated to all the students I have been privileged to inst...

Q&A with Dr. Tayal

For this topic I went directly to one of the people who knows it the best, Dr. Ankur Tayal. Dr. Tayal is a graduate of Life West, President of the Alumni Association and head of the Department of Phil...