THE NATIONAL BY FCA 2019 · 2019. 8. 7. · COURSE CATALOG FL Board of Chiropractic CE Provider #50-2667; Course #20-725566 August 22, 2019 - August 25, 2019 As of 8/7/2019. THE NATIONAL

COURSE CATALOG

FL Board of Chiropractic CE Provider #50-2667; Course #20-725566

August 22, 2019 - August 25, 2019

As of 8/7/2019.

THE NATIONAL BY FCA 2019

Hyatt Regency Orlando

Orlando, FL

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The National by FCA 2019 / Course #20-725566 - DC/CCPA COURSE CATALOG

Thursday - 8/22/2019

Noon-1pm Windermere Ballroom Y

Clinical CE - Kelly Miller, DC, NMD, FASA, FBAARM, CFMP

Implementation of Assessments and Treatment in the Practice for Cognitive Decline in the Aging Brain (Alzheimer's)

Learning Objectives

• Educate attendees on the fastest growing cause of death in the United States • Learn strategies that can help prevent this condition and possibly reverse it

Sponsored by: Health Restoration

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1pm-2:40pm Windermere Ballroom WX

Ethics - Kathy Baumgardner, DC - Anne Sorrentino, DC - Beth Rizer, DC - Michael K. Bagnell, DC, DACNB,

FABBIR - Spencer H. Baron, DC, DACBSP

- Cindy M. Howard, DC, DABCI, DACBN, FIAMA, FICC

- Sherry McAllister, MS (Ed), DC, CCSP

- Sabrina Atkins, DC

The Active Female: Maintaining Ethics in Uncharted Territory

Course Description

The work of healing has not had much of a place in the complex of reckonings in the past year that we condense into the hashtag “#MeToo.” But surely what we are naming and wrapping our arms around with the impetus of #MeToo is, at best, an opening to a long-term cultural reckoning to grow up humanity, to make our society more whole. I walked with some trepidation onto this territory, inviting those who navigate this landscape with admirable cause. Drs. Atkins, Sorrentino, Baumgardner and our male perspective, Dr. Bagnell. How can this profession maintain a superior ethical standard and be a model for other professions. Clearly, our “hands on” approach must be executed with the adept social skill, and purest healing intention, since the power of touch is mighty. The ratio of men to women in practice is about 4:1, 60% of our patient demographic is female. It is paramount that we understand The Active Female and delve deeply into Unchartered Territory, so we make expose and maintain the most ETHICAL standards of practice. We explored how they and all the rest of us might build the spaces, the imaginative muscle, and the pragmatic forms to support healing for women and men where it is possible, now and in time. We can entertain a new paradigm of healthcare that goes beyond Evidence Based Medicine. 1993 was the first time the word “Evidence” was introduced into the literature, and the use of the guidelines were remarkably unsuccessful. Intuition-Based Medicine was the predecessor and was most reliable after a lifetime of practice. Today we can merge our Evidence into “Interpersonal Medicine,” a disciplined approach to delivering care that responds to a patient’s circumstances, capabilities, and preferences.

Learning Objectives

• Avoiding sexual misconduct in the practice of chiropractic medicine means violation of the chiropractic physician-patient relationship. • Ethics regarding male patients: Handling their comments. • Discuss ways to demonstrate professional competence as a condition of license renewal

Sponsored by: Rock Tape, DoC:S (Doctor of Chiropractic: Sports), Protocol for Life Balance

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1pm-2:40pm Windermere Ballroom Y

- Jeffrey Mackey, DC, FACO, FICC

Associateship: How to Know if You are Getting a Good Deal

Course Description

We have all heard the horror stories. A new D.C. joins a group to gain experience and grow. Suddenly, they are stuck in a situation that they cannot control, with a contract that is Not what they signed up for. How do you assess a potential Associateship? How do you read an employment contract? Is it a good deal? Are Non-Compete clauses binding? Is there a future for me at this clinic? How do I negotiate and protect myself? Join Dr. Jeff Mackey, founder and a former Managing Partner for the largest chiropractic group practice in Wisconsin. He has decades of experience in hiring, teaching, and developing successful group and solo practitioners.

Learning Objectives

• Decide if associateships are right for you • Read and understand contracts • Are non-compete clauses binding • How to negotiate with potential employers

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3:20pm-5pm Windermere Ballroom WX

Risk Management - William E. Morgan, DC - Anthony Lisi, DC - Robert Rosenbaum, MD, FAANS, FACS

- Stephanie Johnson, DC

A Military Panel Discussion of Chiropractic Treatment for the Veteran: Standard Procedures, Risks & Rewards

Course Description

The media has brought to our attention the unacceptable problems – like long wait times, and some veterans not getting the timely care that they need. As we begin to see the Institute of Medicine, an organization that the DoD and VA often turn to for recommended health action, begin to publish articles inclusive of chiropractic care, why does it seem so difficult for more veterans to receive needed chiropractic care they need? And for those who do elicit care, why does it take so long to get paid? This panel has been designed to educate the attendees about the current VA system, Chiropractic inclusion, as well as how to best manage risk in veteran treatment. Experts with military background, and influencers from around the nation join together to mitigate the risk for more practitioners to get involved in veteran care. This is a panel you will NOT want to miss, if you want to help those who help you sustain our freedom.

Learning Objectives

• Review current and changing chiropractic involvement in the VA system • Assess and mitigate risk for common treatment plans involving veteran care • Correctly communicate the proper role of chiropractic of veteran patients

Sponsored by: Parker University

3:20pm-5pm Windermere Ballroom Y

- Jeffrey Mackey, DC, FACO, FICC

Cash vs. Insurance Practice Should I Stay, or Should I Go

Course Description

Practice Management groups all seem to be trumpeting " Cash Practice " to many chiropractors. While it is true that Insurance Reimbursement is dwindling, what should you do? This class will explore reality. The Pros and Cons of going strictly cash. A No holds barred, frank discussion without emotion to help you decide what is best for your circumstances.

Learning Objectives

• Why is the allure of cash practice becoming so strong • How do I determine the best route to go • How to remove emotion from your decision • Pros and Cons of both, objectively reviewed

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Friday - 8/23/2019

8am-9:40am Windermere Ballroom WX

Documentation - Jay S. Greenstein, DC, CGFI-L1, CKTP, FMS

- Brad Cost

- Evan Gwilliam, DC, MBA, BS, CPC, CCPC, CPC-I, MCS-P, CPMA, CMHP, AAPC Fellow

- Kurtis Goos, CEO - Patrick Engracia, DC

- Jeff Lewin, DC, CCSP - Christine Goertz, DC, Ph.D - Brian Capra, DC - David Bayer

Office of the Future: How Emerging Technology Is Rapidly Changing the Way We Treat, Record and Document

Course Description

Technology is impacting the chiropractic offices, procedures and documentation more than doctors are currently aware. Have you noticed that software, equipment, exams, telehealth and Big data altering the way you input, code and record? If not, this class is for you because change is coming! Discussed in this session will PMS and EHR with automated workflows that will be using current/future technology in regards to coding, billing and documentation. Attendees will see how BIG data is driving decreased error rates, understanding patient populations, tracking individual provider’s reimbursements for accuracy and discovering new areas for conservative care. Get ready to explore how emerging technologies are leveraged to improve care coordination, patient outcomes and safety. You can discover new current technologies that have evolved to measure therapeutic treatment monitoring of patients using wearable devices. Join this opening session that leads to a day long discovery of the Technology future.

Learning Objectives

• Differentiate documentation and coding process within the past 20 years in relationship to technology • Understand how insurance error rates will decrease and reimbursement will increase due to big data • Learn how BIG data can help the chiropractic industry, state associations and your individual office track payer reimbursement for accuracy • Discovery how Data and Technology are becoming a driving force in healthcare and why you need to understand it • Define care coordination patient outcomes and corelate the emerging technologies that are used to improve them

Sponsored by: Performance Health/Biofreeze Professional/TheraBand, Infinedi, PayDC, TheraTec, Eclipse, Kaizenovation, Genesis Chiropractic Software, David Bayer Businesses

8am-9:40am Bayhill 17-18

- Eric Plasker, DC

Community and Business Leadership Through Your Chiropractic Practice

Sponsored by: The 100 Year LIfestyle

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Friday - 8/23/2019

8am-9:40am Celebration 8

Clinical CE - Michael K. Bagnell, DC, DACNB, FABBIR

- Kathy Baumgardner, DC

Pink Concussions: Detection/Recovery Principles and Running Biomechanics for the Female Athlete

Course Description

In the first hours of this lecture the attendee will learn the differences between female and male brain activity after TBI opens the way for specific examination and treatment protocols to be delivered to the athlete. Online educational provides part of the solution, whereas hands-on applications bring the clinician to the "field" of play in producing the results with consistency. Dr. Bagnell will review, demonstrate, and lead doctors to experience the hands-on approaches that deliver the most consistent results in this work-shop introduction. In the second hour, the attendees will how pregnancy is the most physically challenging event that the female will experience in her lifetime. Within a short span of a couple months, dramatic physiological, hormonal and biomechanical changes occur. This section will focus on identifying the changes occurring in the female body, evaluating the effects of exercising and developing exercise and rehab programs for these specific female athletes.

Learning Objectives

• Review specialized anatomy injured during TBI • Demonstrate high value exam findings for detection of TBI and hands on demonstration of treatment procedures for TBI • Identify biomechanical, physiological and hormonal changes that occur as a result of pregnancy • Evaluate the benefits of exercise on the pregnant female • Identify the risks and contraindications for exercise in the female athlete • Develop individualized exercise programs for the pregnant female

Sponsored by: DoC:S (Doctor of Chiropractic: Sports)

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Friday - 8/23/2019

10:20am-Noon Windermere Ballroom WX

Documentation - Brad Cost - Evan Gwilliam, DC, MBA, BS, CPC, CCPC, CPC-I, MCS-P, CPMA, CMHP, AAPC Fellow

- Jeff Lewin, DC, CCSP - Brian Capra, DC

Technological Advancements in Clinical Documentation

Course Description

Electronic Health Record have changed greatly through the use of automated work flow. As a result, it is having a great impact on chiropractic offices, documentation procedures and reimbursement. Coupled with this, Medicare is undertaking significant update on how it pays for physician services, starting with MIPS and MACRA which are both in effect this year. Chiropractors often find themselves frustrated that yet another evolution has taken place, unknowing how technology can help. Allow our speakers to collectively take you to a deeper documentation level in understanding automated coding and accuracy in improving coding technology. Attendees will leave this class with an empowered sense of what is coming next, and how best to make sure their documentation and recording process is prepared to elevate their patient’s outcomes of the future.

Learning Objectives

• Understand how automated work flow improves patient care • Distinguish the importance of MIPS and MACRA • Registries for outcome measures • Record confidently with improved coding technology identified in this class

Sponsored by: Infinedi, PayDC, Eclipse, Genesis Chiropractic Software

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Friday - 8/23/2019

10:20am-Noon Windermere Ballroom Y

Documentation - Cindy M. Howard, DC, DABCI, DACBN, FIAMA, FICC

Infection Susceptibility and the Influence of Stress

Course Description

This 2-hour presentation will cover the relationship of infection (viral, bacterial, parasitic and fungal), chronic disease, stress and the changes that occur within the HPA access. We will explore the connection of different types of stress: physical as well as emotional that will decrease one’s resistance to infection. The role of neurotransmitters affecting immune cells will affect the HPA axis. In addition, cortisol imbalances and inflammation can be connected with chronic infection. Research around chronic infection and the HPA axis will be presented. Treatment protocols to tackle even difficult cases of these types of conditions will be shared. Case studies on patients seen in practice will demonstrate the success in treating individuals with chronic HPA disfunction both with infection or at risk for infection. Infection Susceptibility and the Influence of Stress

Learning Objectives

• Understand the relationship of infection and stress • Understand the Connection of cortisol and Inflammation • Know how to utilize treatment protocols with current patient dealing with stress related infection

Sponsored by: Protocol for Life Balance

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Friday - 8/23/2019

10:20am-Noon Celebration 12-13

Documentation - James L. Chestnut, BEd, MSc, DC, CCWP

Legal and Evidence-Based Clinical Indicators for Chiropractic SMT/Adjustment

Course Description

Validly determining whether a patient requires chiropractic SMT or adjustment is of the utmost importance with respect to ethics, legal liability, patient care, and patient outcomes. Without the ability to validly and reliably determine clinical need for chiropractic SMT/Adjustment there is no ability to validly establish ethical, effective care recommendations or to defend them. It is valid, evidence-based, legally accepted clinical exam findings/diagnosis that MUST determine care recommendations; there simply is no other ethical, legal, or clinically defensible method. Clearly it is of the upmost importance that every chiropractor MUST, for both legal and clinical reasons, be aware of, and be skilled in assessing, the legal and peer-reviewed clinical indications/diagnostic criteria for chiropractic SMT/Adjustment.

Learning Objectives

• Identify and understand the peer-reviewed literature definitions regarding the clinical indicators for chiropractic SMT/Adjustment • Identify and understand the importance of severity of clinical indicators/diagnostic criteria with respect to making valid care frequency and duration recommendations • Develop the clinical ability to implement evidence-based spinal assessment/exam techniques based on the validated clinical indicators/diagnostic criteria regarding the clinical need for chiropractic SMT/Adjustment • Develop a clinically efficient model to assess and report valid clinical findings and to base care recommendations upon these findings


Clinical CE - Jeffrey Mackey, DC, FACO, FICC

Gonstead Technique

Course Description

This course will help you develop your adjusting skills in Gonstead Technique. Learn how to deliver safe, effective care for your patients. "Practice does Not make perfect. Perfect practice Does!"

Learning Objectives

• Learn the history behind the Gonstead approach • Develop the skills necessary to deliver care • Apply this knowledge to enhance your patient protocol

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Friday - 8/23/2019

10:20am-Noon Celebration 11

Clinical CE - Jeffrey Solomon, DC

Taking It to The Streets - Chiropractic

Course Description

Are you tired of paying high overhead, frustrated with managed care limitations, and restricted by limited access to quality patient populations? You can have a happier, healthier, and more profitable practice outside of the traditional four walls. It's all about creating an approach specific to your visions and goals and keeping it simple.

Learning Objectives

• Thinking about making house calls or taking your practice mobile - Starting Thoughts • Select the kind of patients you want to see like a marksman - Selecting Your Market • Serving patient demand with low overhead and higher profits - Selling Your Services

10:20am-Noon Bayhill 17-18

- Anthony Memmo, DC

The Top 17 Marketing Tips that Every Chiropractor NEEDS to Know to THRIVE in the Digital Age

Course Description

Digital marketing has changed the face of commerce for nearly every industry, including chiropractic. This fast-pace, socially driven approach has increased opportunity for many chiropractors, while leaving traditional marketing chiropractors searching for answers. Level the playing field and learn the essential tools that you need to know to unleash the full potential of digital marketing and grow any chiropractic office

Learning Objectives

• Learn the most relevant and effective online marketing trends • Learn how to maximize your practice’s online presence • Learn how to increase your social media engagement • Learn how to create online content to attract new patients • Learn how distinguish between being busy vs. growing your practice • Learn how to organically climb the ranks on a Google search

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Friday - 8/23/2019


Documentation - William M. Kleber, DC, DABCI

Natural Medicine Solutions for Everyday Conditions in a Busy Chiropractic Office

Course Description

In this stand-alone session, Dr. Kleber will discuss common conditions seen in the chiropractic office. Dr Kleber will explain and demonstrate the diagnostic skills necessary to differentially diagnose pathological conditions from non-pathological conditions. Laboratory testing and demonstration through case studies will be incorporated into the discussion. How to properly document the differential diagnosis and natural medicine recommendations will be strongly emphasized.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how to differentially diagnose pathological conditions from non-pathological conditions commonly seen in a chiropractic office • Learn how to document the process of differentially diagnosing common conditions. Documenting laboratory and other testing. Documenting nutritional and other natural medicine recommendations • Discuss natural remedy recommendations for common conditions will be made

Sponsored by: Biotics Research Corporation, DABCI of Florida

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Friday - 8/23/2019


Documentation - Todd Narson, DC, DACBSP

Rehab Documentation & Coding

Course Description

Proper documentation and proper CPT coding and are co-dependent in today’s chiropractic practice. A thorough discussion of documentation of the doctor’s encounter with the new patient and subsequent follow up visits including establishing medical necessity for all treatment recommended and performed along with the proper use of CPT coding as it pertains to the most common examination and treatment procedure codes in the modern chiropractic practice. This discussion begins with end in mind by starting from the insurance reimbursement check and works backwards through a thorough dissection of the health insurance claim form, daily SOAP notes and the initial report. The entire discussion is centered on medical necessity and the doctors are shown how medical necessity is developed and where it comes into play from the initial visit to the printing of a claim form. We continue with a discussion of various CPT codes used in the chiropractic practice. Compare and contrast therapeutic modalities with physical therapies. Examples are given throughout showing (1) how to choose the appropriate code and (2) how to document the use of that code in the patient’s records.

Learning Objectives

• Understand how to establish medical necessity to support their treatment plans and to document appropriately to (a) avoid payment delays or denials • Reduce the likelihood of compliance audits and fraud, and (3) to get reimbursed for their time and expertise

Sponsored by: ACOM


Documentation - Brie Gindele, DC, CACCP

Prenatal and Pediatric Documentation

Course Description

Gain a new perspective when documenting your care with pediatric patients. This course will help you gain a stronger understanding and confidence when documenting all care from the initial examination to their end of a treatment plan. We will touch on diagnosing, outcome assessments and specifics to document based on age group and go through details of your SOAP’s in relation to the pediatric population.

Learning Objectives

• Understand why documentation is different with pediatrics and how to accommodate • Learn basic knowledge to start integrating proper documentation on Monday • Gain basic steps to ensure you intake, document and code for proper payment

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Friday - 8/23/2019


Documentation - Daniel J. Murphy, DC

Practical Applications for Low-Level Laser Hormesis

Course Description

The basis of evolutionary biology is hormesis. This class will review the concept of biological hormesis, and show how it applies in the clinical setting to low-level laser therapy. Appropriate studies will be used to support the concept and the clinical applications

Learning Objectives

• Learn the basics of laser photon therapy and it’s influence on mitochondrial physiology • Understand the biological concept of hormesis. • Understand the relationship between hormesis, low level laser therapy, and the paradox of nitric oxide • Learn a protocol of clinical applications with low-level laser hormesis, using a framework of published studies.

Sponsored by: Erchonia


Documentation - Mario Fucinari, DC, CCSP, DAAPM, MCS-P

Top 10 Most Common Documentation Errors

Course Description

Documentation errors may result in denials, recoupment or even fines and jail time. This lecture will provide clarity of documentation, as well as most common errors made, so the practitioner can avoid the top errors and implement correct record keeping on Monday morning.

Learning Objectives

• Provide clarity of documentation to the attendees • Discuss the most common error made in documentation • Learn how to avoid errors and implement correct record keeping

Sponsored by: Foot Levelers

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Friday - 8/23/2019


Clinical CE - Sabrina Atkins, DC - Elizabeth Starkey, DC

Laser Treatment and Extremity Adjusting for the Female Athlete

Course Description

Attendees will learn to use biomechanical tape to reduce workload, manage movement patterns, and improve function with common physical impairments and functional limitations common to chiropractic rehabilitation. Hyperlordosis and anterior pelvic tilt, will be addressed, as it is associated with quad dominance and the correlation with foot and ankle stress points, plantar fasciitis, and increased knee pain and increased chance of injury. We will provide basic functional movement exercises as well as lower extremity adjustment techniques.

Learning Objectives

• Develop an understanding of how biomechanical differs from that of kinesiology and rigid tapes • Learn basic techniques for safely applying and removing tape and common taping technique to address knee extensor dysfunction for a variety of conditions • Learn common taping technique to address improve postural dysfunctions associated with the lumbar and thoracic spine • Provide basic functional movement exercises as well as lower extremity adjustment techniques



Clinical CE - Fabrizio Mancini, DC, FICC, FACC

How to Reach the 90% not seeing a Chiropractor

Course Description

Are you frustrated that only 10% of your community sees a Chiropractor? Do you wish you had an unlimited number of new patients? Dr. Fab Mancini, World renown Chiropractor and Bestselling author and Speaker, will share with you 3 simple ways to reach the masses. People are needing Chiropractic more than ever, but they don't know what we do or who you are. In this presentation, find out what the most influential people do to impact the masses. Learn basic steps how you can begin to be the health expert in your area and attract more patients into your practice. It is time that we solve the healthcare crisis and Chiropractic is the answer!

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Friday - 8/23/2019


Documentation - Terry Sandman, DC, MPH, DACBR

Documenting Properly: A Conceptual Approach to Reading X-Rays and MRI

Course Description

There are four steps required to properly document the need for diagnostic imaging. In addition, using diagnostic imaging appropriately involves the acquisition of high quality studies and their accurate interpretation. The interpretation is essential to optimizing the benefit of those studies. This requires a solid understanding of pathology and a unique observational skill set. This process takes time to develop but can be enhanced by an approach to image interpretation that uses several basic concepts. This course will review proper documentation, essentials of image quality and a conceptual approach to image interpretation. Cases will be presented to demonstrate these concepts. Participants will never look at diagnostic images in the same way again.

Learning Objectives

• Discuss the proper documentation required to establish the need for diagnostic imaging • Identify the factors involved in producing and appreciating good quality images • Analyze diagnostic images by utilizing a systematic approach to minimize risk • Demonstrate improved ability to recognize an abnormal finding on a diagnostic image


Documentation - Kelli Moore, MCSP-I, CPPM, QCC

Documentation, Coding and Billing to STOP Denials

Course Description

An in-depth study of what payers want. Focus of class is on compliance with documentation, coding and billing for Evaluation and Management, timed codes, manual therapy and massage. Attendees will leave with a compliant documentation, coding, billing and collecting strategy.

Learning Objectives

• Discuss four Reason Why Claims are Denied • Learn how to use diagnosis and modifiers to stop denials • Discuss compliant collection procedures

Sponsored by: The Collection Coach

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Friday - 8/23/2019

Noon-12:50pm Windermere Ballroom Y

- David Hartz, DC, CFMP - Fabrizio Mancini, DC, FICC, FACC

FREE LUNCH: Eat, Drink and Be Motivated!

Course Description

Dr. David Hartz, sponsored by Bio-Botanical Research Inc, will be hosting this free opportunity for you and your staff to learn more about functional medicine protocols for GI and Systemic Infections. Attendees will also have the opportunity to hear Dr. Fab Mancini, an inspirational speaker who will motivate FCA Attendees! Don't miss this free lunch opportunity to educate and equip your practice! This will be a lunch break you do NOT want to miss!

Sponsored by: Bio-Botanical Research Inc.

1pm-2:40pm Windermere Ballroom X

Clinical CE - Jay S. Greenstein, DC, CGFI-L1, CKTP, FMS

- Patrick Engracia, DC

- Kurtis Goos, CEO

Clinical Assessment in Treatment Using Emerging Technology

Course Description

Virtual reality and High Tech wearable devices are no longer a TV show called the Jetsons. We are living at a time where virtual reality and advanced rehabilitation techniques are becoming the standard, and the results achieved from these devises far exceeds anything captured by hand and sight in the past. Attendees will learn the assessment and treatment protocols that have been formed utilizing this incredible technology, and realize how simple it is to implement in practice life. Video demonstrations will be presented as well as the clinical thought process. This is a class you do NOT want to miss!

Learning Objectives

• Define virtual technology tools within the chiropractic scope • Discover the power of technological assessment vs human assessment • Learn how wearable technology is the data collecting agent of the future

Sponsored by: Performance Health/Biofreeze Professional & TheraBand, TheraTec, Kaizenovation

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Friday - 8/23/2019

1pm-2:40pm Windermere Ballroom Y

Clinical CE - David Hartz, DC, CFMP

Taking the Mystery Out of Kinesiology and Energetic Testing with Science-Based Functional Nutrition

Course Description

The Goal of this lecture would be to earn the synergy between Nutrition and current functional medicine programs and techniques. It is time to take Kinesiology and Energetic testing out of the realm of unscientific skepticism and into known published science. Dr. Hartz will review neurological models, published literature and theories of biophoton physics and energetics, to reveal on how and why we get results.

Learning Objectives

• Discern different approaches to a Nutritional evaluation of a patient in Functional Medicine • Discover the strengths and weaknesses of each technique used in testing in Energetic functional medicine • Exploring the scientific research and models of Biophoton Energetic and Kinesiological testing as a reliable science-based information gathering tool in a Functional Nutrition • Review the benefits to using a Science-based Biophoton energetics when used in conjunction with a Functional Medicine Laboratory evaluation


1pm-2:40pm Celebration 12-13


Chiropractic Meets Neuroscience: Neuroplasticity for Sports Rehabilitation & Performance

Course Description

Is neuroplasticity in the central nervous system the missing link to our understanding of chronic musculoskeletal disorders? With these considerations in mind, the dynamic nature of chiropractic practice, the vital position of chiropractic in health care, and the important roles chiropractic physicians provide across all strata of healthcare, and the changing paradigm of MSD treatments with the integration of neuroscience into the MSD treatment model, we present this course for improving outcomes and clinical care among doctors.

Learning Objectives

• Examine the Role of the CNS in Musculoskeletal Disorders • Overview of Anatomy & Physiology • Integrate CNS Relationship to MSD Outcomes

Sponsored by: Performance Health/Biofreeze Professional & TheraBand, BrainMaster Technologies, Inc

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Friday - 8/23/2019


Clinical CE - Mitchell Mally, DC

Options 4 Opioids: Chiropractic Techniques

Course Description

The American Public Health Association has prioritized opioid use as a key health concern. It is public knowledge that many if these opioids that are initially prescribed as the allopathic approach to spinal pain and chronic pain injuries. Through cases studies, Dr. Mally will discuss functional facts, different clinical approaches to pain, as well as technique demonstration. This class will be a hands-on approach to how chiropractic can begin to 'answer' this world-wide issue.

Learning Objectives

• Become aware of chiropractic techniques that address spinal pain, specifically related to the top pain symptoms that opioids are prescribed for • Attain educational statistics and resources that can act as patient education material for staff communication and patient population

Sponsored by: Mally Enterprises

1pm-2:40pm Celebration 11

Clinical CE - Jeffrey Solomon, DC

Road Operations - Tools & Procedures

Course Description

Mobile house-call practice success requires strategic planning and timely implementation to prevent costly time-consuming mistakes and to insure maximum profitability. The key to practice success lies in lowering overhead and maximizing your return. A mobile approach also allows doctors in traditional practices a chance to tap into opportunities and expand their existing market.

Learning Objectives

• Designing a simplified approach with modern technology - Patient Relations & Procedures • Maintaining the tools of the road - Equipment & Tools of a Mobile/House Call Practice • Operating above board and professionally - Legal, Financial, & Reporting Concerns

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Friday - 8/23/2019

1pm-2:40pm Bayhill 17-18

- Matthew Loop, DC

The 2019 Social Media Profit and Impact Blueprint

Course Description

During this advanced training DC's will discover the most effective social media promotion strategies that are working in 2019. They currently average a 24:1 return on investment. We'll also discuss how to build trust, liking, and rapport with people online so the doctor can become a pillar in the community and a local celebrity. Find out the biggest mistakes to avoid when using social platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn Instagram, Google, and YouTube.

Learning Objectives

• Compare high leverage methods that the busiest chiropractors are currently using to grow their practices with Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Google. • Determine and analyze the best practices for social media outreach • Identify the low hanging fruit areas where the doctor can saturate his/her local area with content so you’re the only logical choice when someone in your town searches for a chiropractor


Clinical CE - William M. Kleber, DC, DABCI

Natural Medicine Solutions for the Subluxation Complex and the Inflammatory Cascade

Course Description

In this stand-alone session, Dr. Kleber will discuss and explain the importance of looking at how the subluxation complex is affected by both external influences and internal physiological imbalances. Toxins, GMO foods, environmental influences, medications, nutritional deficiencies and other things affecting the subluxation complex will be discussed. How to remedy these issues using natural therapies will be reviewed.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how toxins, environmental influences and other external and internal influences can affect the subluxation • Learn how to use case history, physical exam and laboratory testing to determine the influences on the body that do not allow the body to hold the adjustment that is to correct the subluxation

• Learn how to treat the cause of the imbalances that are stopping the patient from holding the subluxation through natural remedies


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Friday - 8/23/2019


Clinical CE - Daniel J. Murphy, DC

The Opioid Crisis and the Chiropractic Alternative

Course Description

Attendees will learn and review the physiology of the opiate receptor. Dr. Murphy will review and define the opiate drug problem we are facing in the USA. Details of how chiropractic treatment can have an influence of the opiate receptor, and hence show the chiropractic alternative to opiate pharmacology.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the anatomy, physiology, and history of the opiate receptor • Understand the causes and the magnitude of the opiate drug problem in the USA • Understand how chiropractic adjusting can influence of the opiate receptor to help people with a variety of pain syndromes


Clinical CE - Christopher J. Bump, DC, MS, IFMCP, CNS, DABCN

Managing Stress and Inflammation with Nutritional and Life-Style Support

Course Description

“Being Stressed-Out” seems to be the epithet for our modern life, yet rarely do we stop to consider what is really meant by being stressed. In this lecture, Dr. Bump will bring to light what happens when we experience the stress reaction. Chronic stress is one of the major triggers for the development of chronic inflammation, and we know that most modern degenerative conditions are associated with chronic inflammation. This not only includes pain (See Dr. Bumps Saturday Lecture on Pain), but conditions like fatigue, diabetes, obesity, arthritis, brain fog and cognitive decline, heart disease and hypertension, insomnia and mood disorders such as anxiety and depression and many others. So, we will explore in detail the physiology of the stress response and its effect on every system in our body. And as stress is mostly a perceived response, it is greatly influence by our life-style, which includes nutrition and diet. Additionally, assessment using labs and physical exam for evaluating stress will be reviewed. And finally, we will go into a detailed exploration of the therapeutics to relieve stress, which include diet, specific nutrient needs and life-style modifications.

Learning Objectives

• Become familiar with the physiology of the stress response and its relation to the inflammatory cascade • Gain insight into the numerous and variable causes of stress • Appreciate how stress response when chronic adversely affects our health • Review assessment tools for stress and inflammation evaluation • Learn therapeutics that include nutrition, diet and lifestyle

Sponsored by: Standard Process, Inc.

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Friday - 8/23/2019


Clinical CE - Terry Sandman, DC, MPH, DACBR

MRI for the Practicing Physician

Course Description

Understanding the proper use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) in clinical practice is essential for the practicing physician. This course reviews the principles of MR production with an emphasis on terminology. Indications and contraindications for MRI are presented. The proper approach to ordering an MRI is discussed and the appropriate use and contraindications of contrast enhancement, are examined. Understanding Picture Archive and Communication Systems (PACS) and the efficient methods of reviewing images on a DICOM viewer are demonstrated with focus on spinal anatomy. Common abnormal findings are presented.

Learning Objectives

• Identify the principles of MR imaging and describe the proper uses and contraindications of MRI with and without contrast • Demonstrate the ability to navigate a DICOM viewer and recognize spinal anatomy on MRI • Analyze MR images and appreciate common as well as abnormal findings


Clinical CE - Phil Harrington, DC, CMLSO, FASLMS

Neuropathy and Opioids: Two Big Problems with a Common Solution

Sponsored by: K-Laser

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Friday - 8/23/2019


Clinical CE - Steven Weiniger, DC

Kollapsing Kids-The Crisis of Tech and Posture Breakdown

Course Description

Thanks to smartphones Millennials are slumping over, and looking older, faster than boomers and the current elderly generations. For those people born after 1996, Generation Z,the problem is even worse…and thats the tip of the iceberg The first humans to play with phones and tablets since they were babies learned to swipe a screen before they could talk. From the looks of it, these kids will be getting functionally be older from even younger ages than older generations because they’ve been hooked on tech from way earlier in their lives. Join the Posture Expert, Dr. Steven Weiniger, to find out about alarming new research showing a spike in neck and back pain in our kids, discover how a posture picture is worth a thousand words, and see how regular posture pictures can set the stage for posture awareness and adopting intelligent posture habits including chiropractic and StrongPosture® exercise.

Learning Objectives

• Understand research concepts relating posture awareness and neck pain • Learn how to promote sitting posture awareness for moms and kids with a picture • Understand biomechanics of tech habits to apply solutions based on Janda’s Upper Crossed Syndrome (aka the zig-zag PostureZone® collapse of the kinetic box) • Demonstrate StrongPosture® Fun to engage kids and keep them Standing Taller

Sponsored by: Performance Health/Biofreeze Professional/TheraBand, PosturePractice/BodyZone


Clinical CE - CJ Mertz, DC

How To Go From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be

Course Description

Do you feel there is more to life than what you are experiencing? Do you find yourself wanting what others have? In this inspiring presentation, Dr. Mertz takes you inside the minds and hearts of some of the most influential people in the world and what lessons he has learned. You are meant for greatness and abundance. Come and learn what thoughts and behaviors will allow you to live the life of your dreams. This is your time!

Sponsored by: CJ3 Consulting, LLC

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Friday - 8/23/2019


Clinical CE - Anne Sorrentino, DC - Daniel Haun, DC

Soft Tissue and Musculoskeletal Diagnostic Ultrasound for the Female Athlete

Course Description

Improvements in healthcare are associated with increased life expectancy and high proportion of the elderly. It is projected by the United Nations that, by 2050, one-fifth of the world's population will be ≥ 60 years. Falls are the leading cause of injury in the elderly. Fall-related injuries have a great impact on the quality of life of old people and have huge medical and social costs. We aim towards prevention of geriatric fall-related injuries. Attendees will also learn how Musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSK US) involves the use of high-frequency sound waves to image soft tissues and bony structures in the body for the purposes of diagnosing pathology or guiding real-time interventional procedures. During the past decade an increasing number of sports injury physicians have integrated MSK US into their practices to facilitate the management of athletes presenting with a wide variety of musculoskeletal and neurological complaints. Ultrasound is currently the fastest growing diagnostic and therapeutic (image assistive) imaging modality among sport medicine physicians, and others. Recognizing the utility and value of low-cost, high-resolution, and dynamic musculoskeletal imaging, in conjunction with a comprehensive clinical exam, use of ultrasound as a first line medical diagnostic tool.

Learning Objectives

• Understanding Load vs Capacity • Discuss Fall Prevention-Veli Maneuver • Discuss Glute-great toe relationship • Diagnosis of tendinosis, partial- and full- thickness tendon tears and nerve entrapments • Evaluation of ligamentous injury and joint instability syndromes such as valgus instability of the elbow or varus instability of the knee, dynamic complaints such as subluxating/dislocating ulnar nerves, snapping popliteus tendons, snapping hip syndrome, and peroneal tendon subluxation/dislocation and acute or chronic muscle injury


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Friday - 8/23/2019


Clinical CE - Lori Allen, BS, MBA

Maximizing Patient Outcome through Effective Communication and Education

Course Description

Your clinical care changes lives, and with “Maximizing Patient Outcome through Effective Communication and Education” you will help more patients reach their lifetime healthcare goals. Through Lori Allen’s guidance you will learn the skills to empower your patients with the proper communication and education to better understand their treatment plans, know importance of re-exams, be educated in the Clinical Report of Findings, and the transition to maintenance care, to truly show each and every patient the value and benefit of their care, thus bringing maximum results and outcome. Guide your patient through the Four Phases of Care: relief, corrective care, strengthening and then finally transition to wellness and wellbeing through regular chiropractic care. Regular chiropractic care provides invaluable patient benefits, but these benefits cannot be felt if patients do not maintain care.

Learning Objectives

• Guide and lead patients through their treatment plans, understanding the patient’s needs and wants matched with the value and benefit of their care • Understanding of the marriage of communication and education, patients will stay on track, reach their wellness goals, and refer others to chiropractic care • Improve retention and compliance to successfully guide patients through the completion of the corrective care plan • Learn that chiropractic is not just about relieving pain, it is about improving function and daily activity • Transition patients to a maintenance care plan and reinforce the importance of a lifetime of wellness care

Sponsored by: Profitable Practice Strategies

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Friday - 8/23/2019

3:20pm-5pm Windermere Ballroom X

Ethics - Jay S. Greenstein, DC, CGFI-L1, CKTP, FMS

- Brad Cost

- David Bayer

Technological Approach to Patient Reimbursement & Outcomes…Keeping Things Ethical

Course Description

It is our ethical responsibility as cutting-edge physicians to understand and use technology as it relates to reimbursement and improving patient outcomes. It is easy to remain comfortable with your current level of technology, but with comfort and lack of knowledge, how quickly it is to loose allow marketing networks to exceed outcomes and patient safety. Attendees will learn how to leverage data to ensure ethical business practices, compare norms and trending in this new day and age.

Learning Objectives

• Ethically differentiate technology as it relates to reimbursement • Understanding emerging technologies to improve patient outcomes, population health, and patient safety and security • Utilize emerging technology and BIG DATA

Sponsored by: Infinedi, Kaizenovation, David Bayer Businesses

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Friday - 8/23/2019

3:20pm-5pm Windermere Ballroom Y

Ethics - James L. Chestnut, BEd, MSc, DC, CCWP

Ethical, Evidence-Based, and Patient Centric Care: An Indissoluble Union

Course Description

The prevalence of low back pain and other neuromusculoskeletal health problems is extremely high and the financial and human burdens associated with these health issues enormous, about this there is no debate. The treatment and/or prevention of these health problems over the past several decades represents a dismal failure and a financial disaster; about this there is no debate. Clearly it is imperative that the most evidence-based interventions with respect to effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and safety are identified and promoted as we move into the future; about this there is no rational debate. Ethical care is patient centric care and ethical, patient centric care is evidence-based care that provides the best possible chance for patient recovery and satisfaction with the lowest possible risk of adverse effects. The questions being begged are obvious. Of the available interventions which, if any, represents the most evidence-based option with respect to effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and safety. What represents evidence-based intervention for low back pain and other neuromusculoskeletal health problems? It is not possible to practice ethical, patient-centric, evidence-based care if you are not aware of, and willing to practice based upon, the best available evidence. Further, if we are to integrate and collaborate with other health care professionals, we have a moral obligation to ensure that any referrals or co-management we engage in is also evidence-based. Simply collaborating and integrating in order to engage in a multidisciplinary approach is not, in itself ethical, patient-centric, or evidence-based. Only collaborating and integrating with practitioners that offer evidence-based interventions is ethical and patient centric.

Learning Objectives

• Identify which interventions qualify as evidence-based in terms of effectiveness, cost effectiveness, and safety • Identify and understand the literature regarding the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, and safety of chiropractic adjustment/SMT. • Identify and understand the literature regarding the effectiveness of all other interventions for low back pain and other neuromusculoskeletal health issues • Develop an understanding of what represents a standardized, evidence-based intervention protocol and how to differentiate between evidence-based, evidence-informed, and investigational interventions

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Friday - 8/23/2019

3:20pm-5pm Celebration 12-13

Clinical CE - Robert Rosenbaum, MD, FAANS, FACS

Collaboration: Chiropractic & Neurosurgery

Learning Objectives

• Identify the number of high risk patients you see annually • Identify techniques to reduce that risk and still serve the patient • Identify opportunities to leverage the risk into practice growth

Sponsored by: Parker University


Clinical CE - Mark N. Charrette, DC

Advanced Lower Extremity Adjusting - Parts 1a & 1b

Course Description

This 4-hour hands-on presentation covers basic biomechanics, neurology, examination procedures, indicators, and adjusting protocols for the most common subluxation patterns of the feet that are found in the typical practice. The concept of "The Noisy Joint" will be covered in detail. This course is a "hands-on" workshop designed after the principles of DELIBERATE PRACTICE. The doctor/student will quickly acquire adjusting skills for the most commonly encountered extremity conditions. Also covered in this course are simple stabilization and rehabilitative procedures for the lower extremity.

Learning Objectives

• Understand and demonstrate the seven adjustments for the foot pronation protocol to include navicular, cuboid, cuneiforms, metatarsal heads,talus, calcaneus, and fibular head • Understand and demonstrate the wrist extension adjustment for the knee utilizing listings of 1) medial condyle, 2) lateral condyle, and 3) posterior tibia • Understand and demonstrate the indicator and adjustment for the hip utilizing the wrist extension thrust


3:20pm-5pm Bayhill 17-18

- Raj Gupta, DC

Setting up a Wellness Practice Model

Sponsored by: Soul Focus

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Friday - 8/23/2019

3:20pm-5pm Celebration 11

Clinical CE - Jeffrey Solomon, DC - Cristina Padilla, DC - Jillaine St. Michel, DC - Candace Holmes, DC - Lucas Marchand, DC - Steven Zabronsky, DC - Jeffrey Jackson, DC

Chiropractic Road Warriors Speak Out Panel

Course Description

From roads across America meet some chiropractors that have discovered a new paradigm in practice. Share with chiropractors that have amplified their reach to select population. Hear from mobile providers that enjoy an unprecedented ease of mind and provide quality professional service to their patients with far less burden than a traditional office. Learn how simplifying practice and reducing overhead provides profitability that often surpasses most traditional brick and mortar practices. Meet chiropractors that experience career satisfaction beyond their wildest dreams.


Clinical CE - Brett Wisniewski, DC, DACBN, DABCI

Natural Medicine Solutions for Sports Performance

Course Description

In this stand-alone session, Dr. Wisniewski will review the basics surrounding sport performance. We will discuss everything ranging from adaptogenic herbs to different type of proteins. Understanding the metabolic demands of the body during physical stress as well as those hormones involved will empower the clinician and improve patient outcomes.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how to detect and define deficiencies utilizing visual and lab diagnostic cues • Learn how to properly test for hormones (blood vs. saliva vs. urine) • Expand on safe and effective sports performance natural medicine compounds to enhance strength, size and endurance



Clinical CE - Michael W. Mathesie, DC, DABFP, DACRB

Physical Performance Evaluations to Determine and Substantiate Rehabilitation

Sponsored by: Aspen Laser Systems

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Friday - 8/23/2019


Clinical CE - Eric Plasker, DC

Pediatric and Family Healthcare the Chiropractic Way

Sponsored by: The 100 Year LIfestyle


Clinical CE - Annette Schippel, DC

Digestion–Stress–Detox: Understanding Key Issues in Women’s Health; Digestion; The Foundation for Optimal Health - Part 1

Course Description

Despite the increased use of “natural supplements” and a greater awareness of digestive health, there is still a need for real solutions. Band-Aids are no longer working! In fact, some of the current medications being used are being highlighted for their long-term consequences. Why is there such a struggle to resolve digestive issues? And why is it so important to make digestive health a starting point when we are addressing any health issue? The objective is to examine the chronic digestive issues that are plaguing women and how they can impact her overall health from poor nutrient absorption to decreased production of neurotransmitters. Exploring key concepts for improved digestion and health. It is time to move away from the band-aid approach and resolve digestive issues.

Learning Objectives

• Have a concrete understanding behind general digestive issues and the impact it has on her overall health • Learn about key nutrients that improve overall digestion • Discuss practical recommendations to go with the support for best outcomes


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Friday - 8/23/2019


Clinical CE - Spencer H. Baron, DC, DACBSP

Successful Integration of Chiropractic in the Athletic Training Room for the Female Athlete / Game Day

Course Description

Designed for chiropractors to get involved and stay involved SUCCESSFULLY in female sports chiropractic. Are you prepared? Is your office prepared? How do you get "in"? What are the challenges at each level? What are the pros and cons of your association with female athletes for club teams, high school, college, professional and Olympic levels? And what about the "unwritten" rules? Learn those too.

Learning Objectives

• Recognizing the risk factors of being a “Female Sports Chiropractor” at different levels • Identify the pros and cons of working in different settings within the female sports world • Create communication strategies with different health care professionals in female sports to insure success



Clinical CE - David Hogsed, DOM, AP

Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy - The Missing Link in Clinical Nutrition and Pain

Course Description

Chiropractic physicians are recommending nutritional supplements more than ever before, but is there a “missing piece” in clinical nutrition preventing faster results and optimal patient satisfaction? In this presentation, David Hogsed, D.O.M., A.P. discusses the multi-purpose health benefits of one of the most well researched (and underutilized) therapeutic modalities, Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy (PEMF). Learn how this “game changing” technology enhances the benefits of nutritional therapies, and can provide faster pain relief for your most challenging patients.

Learning Objectives

• Learn the well documented benefits of PEMF for pain relief, tissue regeneration, and neurological health • Learn synergistic benefits of combining PEMF with chiropractic and nutritional therapies • Learn the top 3 categories of patients that may require PEMF therapy for optimal results • Learn the effects of low intensity vs. high intensity PEMF devices for the chiropractic practice

Sponsored by: Pulse Energy

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Friday - 8/23/2019


Clinical CE - Alicia M. Yochum, RN, DC, DACBR, RMSK

Red Flags in Your Office

Course Description

This lecture will focus on possible red flags presenting to a chiropractor’s office for treatment. We will cover the clinical presentation, differential diagnosis and appropriate imaging for each entity. Varies pathologies will be reviewed which will remind us when and what imaging to order.

Learning Objectives

• Focus on possible red flags presented to a chiropractor’s office for treatment • Discuss the different diagnosis and appropriate imaging for each entity • Review pathologies to know when and what imaging to order for your patient



Clinical CE - Stuart Warner, DC - Theresa Warner, DC

Pediatric New Patient Excellence

Course Description

Drs. Warner will address clinical issues pertaining to analysis and correction of subluxations in the child population. The Warners will address a wide array of clinical management for the pediatric patient. Documentation and reporting of pertinent findings will be addressed, as well as demonstrating the state of health for children in the US and wellness lifestyle strategies.

Learning Objectives

• Understanding the basic of pediatric clinical procedures for visits 1, 2, and 3 for the pediatric patient

Sponsored by: Drs. Warner's Chiropractic Pediatrics 365

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Saturday - 8/24/2019


Documentation - Lou Sportelli, DC - Roni Evans, DC - Stephanie Sullivan, DC - Christine Goertz, DC, Ph.D - Heidi Haavik, DC, PhD - Harry Van Loveren, MD - Jay S. Greenstein, DC, CGFI-L1,

CKTP, FMS

Research Reveal –Document Your Case with Cutting Edge Research

Course Description

We are seeing more research and documented evidence of chiropractic care than ever before, eliciting the proof that supports the coding and documentation rational used by insurers of today. With a chiropractor obtaining an 11.2 million dollar grant to study non-drug approaches to prevent chronic back pain, the Opioid crisis has presented an opportunity for our non-pharmacological approach to be considered, tried, utilized and measured for effectiveness. In this lecture, attendees will see how the research and results of today will be influencing the record keeping process and documentation procedures of tomorrow. Though each of the topics are vastly different, documented research ties the thread throughout, validating and exploring the future potential of what a chiropractic approach to health and well-being: from Back Pain to Depression, from basic science research to clinical research, to the pragmatic research of documentation and validation.

Learning Objectives

• Recognize the influential role research has on documentation procedures of payors • Understand big data’s extrapolation process that defines the outlying treatment plans resulting in payment denial • State the documentation procedures that may change with research results as defined in this class

Sponsored by: NCMIC

8am-9:40am Windermere Ballroom Y

Clinical CE - Daniel Strauss, DC - Dex Alvarez, DC - Sue Bedair, DC - Bethany Dixon, DC, RD, LDN, CME - Daniel Johns, DC

- Guarav Reshamwala, DC

Mentor Panel

Learning Objectives

• Develop marketing skills • Develop best practice in the chiropractic profession skills • Develop knowledge about state organizations and licensure processes

Sponsored by: National University of Health Sciences

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8am-9:40am Bayhill 17-18

- William Esteb

Chiropractors Who Care Too Much

Course Description

This program will address a universal practice challenge: burnout. This session reveals why the chiropractic worldview demands a different relationship from that of allopathic providers in favor of patient partnerships guided by clear boundaries. Attendees will learn three types of caring, 10 signs they may be caring too much and specific action steps they can apply on Monday morning to escape and prevent the crippling effects of professional burnout in themselves and their team.

Learning Objectives

• How to detect the cause of burnout and implement preventative strategies • How to recognize and interpret a patient’s values-driven health care decisions • How to design and apply communication strategies to manage patient acceptance

Sponsored by: Patient Media

10am-12:30pm Bayhill 31

HIV/AIDS - David Seaman, DC

HIV and AIDS a Public Health Perspective

Course Description

During this three hour course the practitioner will be provided with the history of HIV/AIDS globally. In addition, an update on the disease will be discussed as well as the impact of Healthy People 2020. The role of the primary care physician, risk factors and comorbidities will be explored as it relates to this patient population. Traditional, complementary and alternative care treatment options will be discussed to assist practitioners in further patient education.

Learning Objectives

• Discuss the history and impact of the disease globally and within the United States • Discuss the role of Health People 2020 and the impact it has had on this disease within the United States • Summarize the role of the primary care physician, risk factors and comorbidities associated with this disease • Describe and explore treatment options both traditional and complementary and alternative

Sponsored by: Anabolic Labs

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Florida Laws & Rules - Paul Lambert, JD - Kim Driggers, JD - Dena Sokolow, JD - William Dillon, JD - Michael Silverman, JD - Cindy M. Howard, DC, DABCI, DACBN, FIAMA, FICC

Florida Laws and Rules

This class is for Florida Doctors ONLY

Course Description

Course discussing various and frequent laws and rules impacting the chiropractic profession in Florida. Attendees will learn about the Florida chiropractic scope of practice, the basics of employment laws impacting the running of a practice, HIPAA laws used on a daily basis, the new Direct Primary Care law in Florida and how it can expand an office practice, and expanding a small office to a multidisciplinary office and the important Florida and Federal laws to be aware of that will keep you out of trouble.

Sponsored by: Protocol for Life Balance, Florida Healthcare Law Firm


Clinical CE - Kristine Tohtz, DC, LAC

TCM Pediatrics: Identification of Children in the 5 Element Model for Better Treatment Options

Course Description

Because communication with children can be overshadowed by parental wants and desires, learning to effectively observe a child and obtain pertinent history in the TCM model is crucial in best treatment practices for children. At the end of this course the acupuncturist and chiropractic acupuncturist shall be able to assign one of the five major elements diagnostically to the child. This will ease in treatment strategies for the practitioner but also help the parents, teachers, and other providers of care for the child with work and socialization; allowing the child to achieve a more healthy and harmonious existence within both their body and environment. Safety procedures will also be discussed in how to explain procedures to parents, how to handle needles, laser and tui na procedures for the children.


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Clinical CE - Derek Barton, DC - Freddys Garcia, DC, MS, DACNB, FACFN

Intro to Receptor-Based® Rehab for Chiropractors: The ABC's of Receptor-Based Rehabilitation Part 1: Autonomics

Course Description

This 6-hour workshop has been developed with one objective in mind: to make clinical neurology easily understood, applied, and implemented, for the general practitioner. The brain is the master control system, and everything a chiropractor does influences a patient’s brain. During this workshop, Dr. Antonucci will help you to develop your neurological observations, provide you with simple yet effective assessments, and applications that you can implement immediately with your current patient population.

Learning Objectives

• Discuss the Autonomic System’s Role in the Common Chiropractic Patient’s Presentation • Assessing and Localizing Dysfunction in the Autonomic Nervous System • Developing Rehabilitation Strategies for Autonomic Dysfunction

Sponsored by: Plasticity Brain Centers



Advanced Lower Extremity Adjusting - Part 2

Course Description

This 2-hour presentation covers the adjusting protocols for the supination pattern of the foot, hallux valgus, and heel spur adjustments. It also covers adjustments for the knee, patella and several hip adjustments. This course will also quickly review the concept of "The Noisy Joint". This course is a "hands-on" workshop designed after the principles of DELIBERATE PRACTICE. The doctor/student will quickly acquire adjusting skills for the most commonly encountered extremity conditions.

Learning Objectives



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10:20am-Noon Bayhill 17-18

- Fabrizio Mancini, DC, FICC, FACC

5 Successful Principles for Every Practice

Course Description

In this inspiring talk, Dr. Fab Mancini will share over 30 years of evaluating the best practices in the world and what makes them great. Here are the 5 Principles they all have in common.



- Debra Hoffman, DC

The Environmental Impact on the Brain and Nervous System: How to Test and How to Fix

Course Description

This presentation will introduce doctors into how to assess and treat for environmental toxins. Approximately 100, 000 chemicals have been introduced into the world since WWII. Many of these are neurotoxic and cause neurobehavioral problems. Signs and symptoms will be discussed. Multiple laboratory tests will be discussed. Treatment protocols will be presented to detoxify. Many of these come from air and water sources. Solutions for removing toxins from the air and water will be provided.

Learning Objectives

• Educate DCs on signs and symptoms of potential environmental poisoning • Educate on how to test for environmental toxins • Educate how to treat environmental toxins


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Clinical CE - Brett Wisniewski, DC, DACBN, DABCI

Natural Medicine Solutions for Detoxification and Weight Loss

Course Description

In this stand-alone session, Dr. Wisniewski will break down the complicated process of detoxification into 3 simple steps. We live in a toxic society from too much stress to poor quality relationships and adulterated food. The liver, kidney and GI tract can easily become overburdened and can quickly fail under most detoxification protocols. This leaves the patient in a worse condition then when they started. Introducing this protocol, in the right order, can make all the difference. We will also be discussing your tough weight loss cases and how a proper detoxification plan, with routine testing, can drastically increase your clinical success.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how to detect and define the patient that has toxic body burden that may benefit from detoxification • Learn how to properly test for these industrialized compounds and those mechanisms and systems that may be lacking due to exposure/accumulation • Expand your knowledge on natural remedies that are safe and effective for treating these patients and getting repeatable outcomes



Clinical CE - Bernard Bricot, MD

Global Postural Reprogramming

Course Description

Imbalances in the postural system are the cause of many pathologies. The mechanical component of pain, osteoarthritis, subluxation or vertebral deformities is rarely taken into account by standard treatments. Such pathologies are due to disruption of the postural tonic system that is caused by pathological information received from its sensory inputs: the feet, the eyes, the teeth, the skin, etc. The feet and eyes are the primary points of entry to the system, so any disturbance in how the feet come into contact with the ground or in eye convergence will affect the postural system. Disruption of these sensors is extremely frequent, yet it frequently goes unnoticed. Regarding the mandibular apparatus, imbalances in dental occlusion cause an asymmetry of the neck muscles that can trigger neck pain, headache, and nocturnal or morning pain.

Learning Objectives

• Convergence asymmetry • Asymmetry of foot support • Tilting and rotation of the shoulders and pelvis

Sponsored by: Statipro

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What Could be Walking Through Your Door?

Course Description

This is a case-based lecture pulling from cases read for chiropractors across the nation. We will review a wide range of pathology from sports injury, arthritis, infection and neoplasm all of which have come through practicing Chiropractors doors. Proper utilization of imaging will be covered, and this will remind the practicing doctor that arthritis is not the only pathology that could come through their door!

Learning Objectives

• Review a wide range of pathology from sports injury, arthritis, infection and neoplasm • Utilization of imaging



Clinical CE - Gregory H. Doerr, DC, CCSP, SFMA, ART, FMT, CSTI, CKTP

- Jeffery Tucker, DC

“Be the Expert” Functional Assessment, Training and Treatment of Common Upper Extremity, Lower Extremity and Spine Injuries

Course Description

In this hands-on presentation doctors will learn how to evaluate common upper, lower, and spinal injuries. This course is designed to equip attendees on how to prescribe the appropriate dosage of strengthening balance training and flexibility exercise for injuries. Several demonstrations on taping techniques will be taught for extremity and spinal injuries. All procedures will be applicable to the athlete, geriatric, and general patient population, as well as the newest research and physiology on taping procedures.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how to evaluate common Upper Extremity (UE) injuries, Lower Extremity (LE) injuries & Spine Injuries • Learn how to prescribe appropriate dosage of strengthening, balance training and flexibility exercises. • Learn how to apply therapeutic tape from an evidence-based approach • Learn how to apply soft tissue mobilization from an evidence-based approach • Demonstrate functional taping techniques and corrective exercises for the Upper Extremity, Lower Extremity (LE) & Spine

Sponsored by: Performance Health/Biofreeze Professional & TheraBand

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Clinical CE - Kyle Nevius, DC

Integration of Cannabidiol (CBD oil) for Chiropractic Physicians

Course Description

In this session attendees will learn the history, development and current utilization of industrial hemp products/CBD oil and their uses in healthcare. This course will discuss the healthcare revolution as it occurred in 2012 and subsequent global media explosion that started research in 52 countries, it will include treatment categories by the Mayo Clinic and database management by John's Hopkins University. Information regarding guidelines for diagnoses, drug interaction and loading dose approach will be briefly discussed. legal considerations will be reviewed from a state and federal level.

Learning Objectives

• Learn the difference between controlled and non-controlled CBD products as approved for use by the FDA within the United States and Florida • Identify discuss and differentiate between medicinal marijuana products and non-controlled CBD oil as it relates to prescription and nonprescription treatment • Learn about the history of hemp-based CBD oil in the United States and its utilization in healthcare as well as other non-healthcare related industries • Review and understand the data as it relates to CB one and CB two receptors and how that will play an integral role with their patients’ healthcare management • Learn about the involvement of Johns Hopkins University outpatient treatment program and data acquisition as well as treatment categories currently being developed by the Mayo Clinic as it relates to CBD oil intervention

Sponsored by: Charlotte's Web

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Clinical CE - Christopher J. Bump, DC, MS, IFMCP, CNS, DABCN

A Nutritional and Life-style Approach for Reducing and Eliminating Pain (in the Chiropractic practice)

Course Description

The opioid crisis has caused us to focus on how inadequate we are, as a Nation, in the treatment of chronic pain. The statistics are staggering, and what is being lost in the discussions are the many viable and effective treatment options that are readily available. As a profession, we know that Chiropractic care is a valuable and proven treatment option for chronic pain. However, by incorporating whole food nutrition and life-style modifications into the treatment regime, the reduction and elimination of pain can be greatly enhanced. From a functional and systems biology perspective, if we understand the cause of pain, it can more adequately reduced in therapy. In this lecture Dr. Bump will discuss the various causes of pain which are influenced by diet, nutrition and lifestyle, which, if not resolved, become chronic. He will explain the relation between diet, nutrition and lifestyle and the immune system. It is our immune cells which stimulate the nociceptors and therefore pain. Pain is one of the 5 Cardinal Signs of Inflammation, and therefore a desirable part of both the immune response and the stress response, in the short term. (See Dr. Bump’s Friday morning lecture on Stress and Inflammation.) Further, Dr. Bump will offer an overview of lab testing for assessing inflammation. Also, we will take a deep-dive into nutritional, dietary and life-style therapeutics. Specific nutrients will be discussed which are valuable for reducing both inflammation and pain, and we will look at how unhealthy and imbalanced diets drive the inflammatory process. We will further explore life-style modifications such as meditation, improved sleep and recreation among others.

Learning Objectives

• Gain an appreciation of the prevalence of chronic pain • Become familiar with the relation of pain with the immune system and the inflammatory cascade • Appreciate the numerous causes of our modern lifestyle of the inflammatory reaction and pain

• Gain an understanding of assessment of inflammation • Learn how nutrients, diet and lifestyle as therapeutic interventions


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Clinical CE - James L. Chestnut, BEd, MSc, DC, CCWP

Chiropractic and Lifestyle: A Perfect Clinical Marriage

Course Description

Evidence-based care can be defined as those interventions which have documented, peer-reviewed clinical evidence of health benefit. When it comes to interventions for neuromusculoskeletal health, chiropractic adjustment/SMT, exercise, essential nutrient supplementation, and general healthy lifestyle advice represent the interventions with the highest level of clinical evidence and thus the greatest chance of providing benefit.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the evidence regarding the importance of restoring and maintaining segmental motion with respect to neuromusculoskeletal health and understand the documented significant negative neuromusculoskeletal health consequences of segmental motion deficiency. Be able to relate both of these to the unique value and effectiveness of chiropractic SMT/Adjustment and exercise

• Understand the documented clinical importance of omega-3 fatty acid, vitamin D, and probiotic sufficiency • Understand the documented clinical benefit of healthy lifestyle • Identify and easily implement the most evidence-based, most clinically effective clinical care recommendations as part of a core standardized chiropractic care protocol

10:20am-Noon Bayhill 30


Shoulder Condition, Injuries and Syndromes

Course Description

Dr. Mally, international speaker will present a compelling, high energy, content rich presentation armed with documented research supporting his "authentic" techniques. A review of the anatomy and biomechanics relative to conditions of the shoulder and its profound effects on the cervical and thoracic spine is coupled with practical demonstrations. Lecture includes x-rays, 3D animations and computer graphics. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from a world class speaker!

Learning Objectives

• Review the anatomy and biomechanics relative to conditions of the shoulder • Discuss the effects on the cervical and thoracic spine is coupled with demonstrations • Review and understand x-rays, 3D animations and computer graphics of the shoulder


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1pm-2:40pm Windermere Ballroom WX

Medical Errors - Fabrizio Mancini, DC, FICC, FACC - James L. Chestnut, BEd, MSc, DC, CCWP

- Perry Bard, DC - Annette Schippel, DC - Scott Walker, DC - Cindy M. Howard, DC, DABCI, DACBN, FIAMA, FICC

- Lori Allen, BS, MBA

Addiction: Avoiding Medical Errors by Increasing Diagnostic Procedures

Course Description

In a day in age where pain is running rampant through American society and addiction falls accidentally on individuals and families, the chiropractic profession finds itself needing to diagnose and treat differently than ever before. We all know that medical errors occur when the diagnostician fails to clearly identify the root cause of conditions or fails to identify underlying and concomitant conditions that significantly impact a patient’s response to treatment. Yet, the game has changed, and the cascade of practice improvements that need to occur will be outlined in this session. From diagnosis forms, to classifying symptoms, this session is designed to bring forth different levels of assessment, identify new tests and highlight treatments and tools needed to diagnose more thoroughly and avoid medical errors in this ‘new world’ of addicted patients. The opioid epidemic only scratched the surface, in highlighting the epic proportions of pain and addiction that our patients are in. Monday morning practicality will be achieved for improvement of the safety and efficacy of care recommended and rendered.

Sponsored by: Standard Process, Inc., Profitable Practice Strategies, N.E.T., Inc., Protocol for Life Balance, NeuroMED Technology



Intro to Receptor-Based® Rehab for Chiropractors: The ABC's of Receptor-Based Rehabilitation Part 2: Balance and Coordination

Course Description


Learning Objectives

• Discuss the Cerebellum’s Role in Balance, Spinal Integrity, Coordination, and Cognition • Assessing the 3 Functional Zones of the Cerebellum • Developing Appropriate Applications for Cerebellar Dysfunction


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Acupuncture Risk Mgmnt (Acup. Cert. DC's ONLY)

- Kristine Tohtz, DC, LAC


Course Description




Clinical CE - Etienne Dubarry, DC

Adjusting for Success: The Thoracic

Course Description

You will discover how the patient’s position influences the success of your adjustment through a new approach never taught before: The Arc of Tension. The techniques that never provided you a reliable cavitation will become suddenly highly efficient in your hands. You will practice chiropractic like the kata of any martial art: first without a patient, you duplicate standing the movement projected on screen; second with a patient as you did before.

Learning Objectives

• Multiply the efficacy of your daily chiropractic technique via patient’s positioning • Explain what has never been explained before: the simple mechanic behind cavitation • Demonstrate the common factors to all adjustment throughout the spine with the Arc of Tension model • Show doctors how to document for duplication a technique in less than 3 seconds with any documentation system so you can take off any time, any day, without the need to demonstrate anything to the new doctor covering for you.

Sponsored by: Lloyd Tables

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Clinical CE - David Hartz, DC, CFMP

Science based Functional Nutrition - Part 2 “Taking the mystery out of Kinesiological and Energetic testing with science-based functional Nutrition”.Demonstration and Practicum

Course Description

The goal of this lecture is to briefly review the research of Bio-photon Physics and it’s use in a Functional Nutrition practice. Also, discuss the science and technology of calibrated Kinesiological testing and measurement of the biofield and practical demonstration and individual instruction.

Learning Objectives

• Review of biophoton physics, the bio-field and subtle light fields in cell communication • Discuss the need for indicators of the underlying causes of the loss of optimum health and how to find them • Discuss and demonstrate calibration and reproduceable protocols for Kinesiological testing. Discuss the common pitfalls of inconsistency and how to avoid them • Discussion of the bio-field and it’s measurement and interaction with it • Practical demonstration and practicums relating to the use of the bio-field and subtle light (Biophoton) emissions • Overview of a systematic approach to patient evaluation and it’s correlation to functional laboratory analysis


1pm-2:40pm Bayhill 17-18

- Michael Silverman, JD

Chiropractic Practice Expansion – Adding DME to your Practice Offerings.

Sponsored by: Florida Healthcare Law Firm

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Clinical CE - William M. Kleber, DC, DABCI

Natural Medicine Solutions for Gastrointestinal Dysfunction

Course Description

In this stand-alone session, Dr Kleber with detail the anatomy and physiology of the GI tract and the common dysfunction seen in a chiropractic office. The manifestations of GI dysfunction are systemic and often lead to chronic disease, pain and inflammation. Dr Kleber will help students understand the impact abnormal GI function has on a myriad of diseases and symptoms and teach how to make long term corrections through diet, lifestyles and natural remedies.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how to test for GI disease using laboratory and physical examination. Stool testing will be emphasized • Teach the attendees how to correlate GI dysfunction to a wide range of seemingly unrelated symptoms and disease • Educate the participants on how to use natural remedies for correction of gastrointestinal dysfunction using natural remedies



Clinical CE - Brandon Steele, DC

Mastering the Rotator Cuff: A Hands-On Workshop for Evaluation and Management

Course Description

Rotator cuff injuries account for 4.5 million physician office visits per year. Management of this problem can range from frustrating to rewarding depending on the depth of your training. Presenter will teach a practical, workshop outlining everything you need to know about successfully treating rotator cuff pathology. This hands-on workshop will review the current “best practices” for evaluation, treatment and home rehab. You’ll leave this class with greater understanding and confidence about how to manage the most common problem to affect the shoulder.

Sponsored by: ChiroUP

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Clinical CE - Robert Silverman, DC, MS, DACBN, DCBCN, CNS, CCN, CSCS, CIISN, CKTP, CES, HKC, FAKTR

Integrating Fasting into Nutritional Protocols: A Functional Medicine Approach

Course Description

Fasting is an age-old spiritual practice, but today we know it can have significant, even transforming, health benefits. Robust and ongoing research is revealing how fasting can help activate stem cells, reduce and improve chronic disease, and lead to healthy longevity. The benefits of fasting have now entered the mainstream of public interest, which means practitioners are being asked about how to do it safely, effectively, and with minimal disruption to daily life. Practitioners now have the opportunity to help their patients by providing guidance and countering the misinformation and myths around fasting. To best help their patients, practitioners need to have a thorough grasp of the complex science behind safe and effective fasting. This session will guide participants through the scientific basics, explain the different fasting modalities, and help them integrate fasting into their nutritional protocols.

Learning Objectives

• Understand why fasting has significant health benefits • Understand basic science behind safe and effective fasting • Understand blood marker improvements from fasting • Different fasting modalities • Understand principles of the fast mimicking diet (FMD) • Understand elucidating functional nutrition protocols that work in synergy with fasting

Sponsored by: Biotics Research Corporation, L-Nutra



Imaging Children When it Counts and Leave Me Alone Lesions

Course Description

This course will touch on imaging of children and pathology specific to your pediatric patient. Also, there are certain imaging findings that when you see them they should be “left alone.” This means that they either mean nothing and you can treat the patient without concern or that they are very serious, and you should refer the patient out or not treat that area. Join me so I can help you learn the difference!

Learning Objectives

• Discuss imaging of children and pathology specific to your pediatric patient • Learn when to findings should be “left alone” • Learn when to refer a patient out or not treat that area


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Clinical CE - Ryan Lazarus, DC, MSC, CNS

Stabilizing the Neuroimmune System with Functional Nutrition

Course Description

The concept of Functional Neurology views the nervous system as a moldable, changeable entity that can be affected in its function through every system and various types of environmental stimulation. This course reviews the systems biology of the interconnected systems with an emphasis on the nervous system, immune system and GI system. The course will introduce the concept of the exosome with specific descriptions of miRNA. It offers lifestyle and nutritional therapies to support these systems using a functional medicine operating system.

Learning Objectives

• Learn the concept of Functional Neurology • Learn the relationship between the nervous, immune and GI systems • Learn epigenetic influence on the neuroimmune system • Learn lifestyle and nutrient therapies for support • Learn the most common neurological symptoms presenting to a Chiropractor • Learn a simple and efficient nutrition protocol for Chiropractors






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Clinical CE - Sherry McAllister, MS (Ed), DC, CCSP

- Susan Welsh, DC, DACBSP

Integrative Healthcare: Chiropractic is Integral

Learning Objectives

• Understanding of Integrative Healthcare and the value of chiropractic in the equation • Cover research exploring how chiropractic care can address many of the current challenges that create increased spending, decreased patient satisfaction and higher risk to the patient

• Cover the patient benefits of integrative care, which includes chiropractic

Sponsored by: ChiroUP

1pm-2:40pm Bayhill 30



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Acupuncture Technique (Acup. Cert. DC's ONLY)

- Kristine Tohtz, DC, LAC


Course Description





Intro to Receptor-Based® Rehab for Chiropractors: The ABC's of Receptor-Based Rehabilitation Part 3: Cognition

Course Description


Learning Objectives

• Functional Organization of the Frontal Lobe • Assessing the Frontal Lobes in Less than 5 Minutes • Developing Care Strategies for Executive Dysfunction


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Clinical CE - Scott Walker, DC

Neuro Emotional Technique (NET)

Course Description

NET is not for everybody. However if it is for you, your patients will be grateful to have a practitioner who can help reduce many kinds of mind-body stress. Dr. Scott Walker has taught thousands of doctors across the world how to quickly identify whether or not there is an emotional / stress component to a patient's problem. You will be able to learn how to quickly determine if there is a hidden stress element in this demonstration-oriented class. You will also leave this class trusting yourself to be able to better know whether or not your tough (or even easy) cases are compromised by 'emotional subluxations'. Dr. Walker will also share some of the just released pre- and post-ƒMRI images demonstrating how the the brain actually changes after the NET procedure.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how NET can help eliminate the chronic persistent recurrent subluxation • Learn how to quickly and simply determine if there is an 'emotional/stress' component to a patient's condition • Learn contacts for the pre-frontal bundle nerve connections related to the limbic/emotional system. • Learn the neuro-connections to the musculoskeletal system and the viscera • Learn the physiology of the Triune Brain as discovered by Paul MacLean neuroscientist

Sponsored by: N.E.T., Inc.


Clinical CE - J. Dunn, DC

Understanding Genetic Defects in Methylation and Their Role in Chiropractic Practice

Course Description

Dr. J Dunn will teach the doctors how to understand and interpret genetic testing and it's relevance to chronic disease Methylation pathways and dysfunction will be discussed and effects on chronic disease in Chiropractic practice.

Learning Objectives

• Learn to interpret genetic tests for nutritional applications • Taught biochemistry/methylation pathways using the Wholistic Methylation Interactive Computer program • Learn how to understand methylation dysfunction and the effects on Chronic Diseases such as; chronic musculoskeletal dysfunction, osteoporosis, joint dysfunction and disc disease.

Sponsored by: Nurtri West of Florida

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3:20pm-5pm Bayhill 17-18

- William Dillon, JD - Dena Sokolow, JD

Employment Laws & Data Breaches...How to Protect Your Practice

Course Description

There are numerous employment laws that apply to both small and large practices and failing to follow them can become quite costly. This presentation will provide attendees with valuable advice on how to evaluate your risk of exposure, learn what you can do to avoid employments claims, and how to position yourself to defeat attempts to target your business for employment lawsuits. Another type of adverse event which can create havoc for a practice is a data breach involving patient information. This presentation will address some of the current trends involving data breaches in the health care industry as well as how to response to a data breach if one occurs.

Learning Objectives

• Discrimination and Harassment Claims in the #MeToo Era • Joint Federal and State Misclassification Initiative (Independent Contractors) • Discuss Pay Equity Claims, DOL's Proposed New Overtime Rules, Claims Under the National Labor Relations Act, Off-Clock Work, Training and Travel Time, and Rounding Time and Timeclock Practices

• Attendees will learn what constitutes a breach of unsecured protected health information • Learn to assess and categorize an event as data breach under both HIPAA and state law • Learn how to respond to the occurrence of a data breach and relevant steps to take to prevent future data breaches

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Documentation - Brett Wisniewski, DC, DACBN, DABCI

Natural Medicine Solutions to Thrive, Not Just Survive, in Today's Tumultuous Healthcare Environment

Course Description

In this stand-alone session, Dr. Wisniewski will review the current state of health care from both a medical and financial perspective. We will discuss where your practice fits in the current model and if you’re prepared for changes that are coming. Likely there are small changes that can be made to offer more services and see a broader range of conditions/patients. As patients continue to become more complex due to social pressures, environmental/industrial influence and our poor food supply it will be paramount to be ahead of the trends. Appropriately documenting your encounters will ensure congruency within your office as well as within the entire medical construct.

Learning Objectives

• Learn how proper documentation can enhance your communication within the medical community and with your patients • Learn how to evaluate the vitals of your business and how that effects patient care • Learn how to implement different services that offer patients a well round option


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Digestion–Stress–Detox: Understanding Key Issues in Women’s Health; Digestion; The Master Disrupter of Health - Part 2

Course Description

Face it, we live in a stressed-out world. Everywhere we look we are bombarded with stressors! Increased environmental stress, dietary stress, emotional stress…physical stress; you name it, we are living it and experiencing it! But what does that really mean when it comes to women’s health issues? How is she impacted by stress differently than men? What does chronic stress due to disrupt her overall health? As part 2 in the Women’s Health series we will be exploring the role of stress and the impact it can have on her health. Stress is not going away! But we can improve how the body responds to stress and offer practical solutions for reducing the stress load we are currently experiencing. Chronic stress can affect every aspect of her endocrine system and cause imbalances that ultimately have gross consequences. Because it can touch her in so many different ways, it is absolutely critical to recognize the role stress plays and offer real solutions for her moving forward.

Learning Objectives

• Have a better understanding about the impact stress has on the body • Learn how poor stress handling can be at the root of other problems and if over looked will be mistreated • Know how to choose key support to improve stress handling and overall patient outcomes


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Clinical CE - Perry Bard, DC

The ABC’s of Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression

Course Description

The ABC’s of Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression class is designed to empower the doctors by educating & preparing them to consider the vast improvements made in non-surgical options now afforded by Spinal Decompression. This class will prepare the doctors in a surface view in the diagnosis & treatment of acute to chronic Spinal Disc conditions. With validated and credible research behind it of the highest magnitude, Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression often offers patients a last resort. This class will familiarize the doctors with the latest treatment options, programs & protocols in Spinal Decompression.

Learning Objectives

• Learn what is Non-Surgical Spinal Decompression • Comprehend the Subluxation-Bulge-Herniation Spinal Disc Model • Identify who are the best candidates within your own practice for Spinal Decompression • Discover how Spinal Decompression often affords patients with Disc Disease better treatment options than narcotics, epidural injections and surgeries • Enhance your inter-disciplinary communication skills in Spinal Disc Care

Sponsored by: NeuroMED





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- Debra Hoffman, DC

Implementation of Assessments and Treatment in the Practice for Cognitive Decline in the Aging Brain (Alzheimer's)

Learning Objectives

• Educate attendees on the fastest growing cause of death in the United States • Learn strategies that can help prevent this condition and possibly reverse it


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Clinical CE - Heidi Haavik, DC, PhD

Neurophysiological Mechanisms That Are Changing Our Understanding of the Chiropractic Adjustment

Course Description

Resent scientific studies are revealing a new understanding about how spinal adjustments work. Heidi Haavik, a chiropractor and PhD trained neurophysiologist has spent the past 16 years studying the changes that occur in the brain when chiropractors adjust chiropractic subluxations. The original theories were based on the idea that dysfunctional spinal segments were ‘out of place’, or misaligned, and that this put pressure on the nerves exiting the spine. We now know that this theory is not really the best way to describe what a chiropractic subluxation is. The original theories were based on the idea that an adjustment relieved pressure off the squashed nerves. We now also know this is not the best way to describe the neurophysiological effects of an adjustment. Today, over a hundred years on from that ‘first’ chiropractic adjustment, we know much more about how the brain and the rest of the central nervous system functions. And it is becoming clear – finally - just how the chiropractic adjustment really work. We have now come to understand is that we don’t really put bones back in place when we adjust the spine. A chiropractic subluxation is not so much the condition of a bone being out of place; it is more that a bone is functioning or moving in a less than ideal way – in a manner that is not ‘normal’ for the body. The spine itself has three basic functions; 1) sometimes to move to dissipate forces for example during running, 2) sometimes to stiffen up – also to protect us for example during heavy lifting, and 3) sometimes to reflexively respond to maintain balance and prevent falls. Thus from a neurophysiological perspective, if vertebral motion segments are not doing one of these three things when it should then we have a Central Segmental Motor Control problem – and from a neurophysiological perspective this is what a chiropractic subluxation is. What is really interesting is how spinal dysfunction impacts our brain’s function, and how this likely translates into clinical symptomatology (or not). Dr Heidi Haavik will share with you a summary of where we are at with the neurophysiological understanding of the impact of spinal function on brain function, and will discuss what future implications this has for us as a profession.

Learning Objectives

• Describe the neurophysiological effects of an adjustment • Learn how spinal dysfunction impacts our brain’s function

Sponsored by: NCMIC

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Sunday - 8/25/2019


Risk Management - Robert Silverman, DC, MS, DACBN, DCBCN, CNS, CCN, CSCS, CIISN, CKTP, CES, HKC, FAKTR

- Steven Weiniger, DC

- Debra Hoffman, DC - Scott Walker, DC - Eric Plasker, DC - Annette Schippel, DC - CJ Mertz, DC

Clinical Benefits of Proper Sleep: Diagnostic Risks and Red Flags

Course Description

As we think about our chiropractic patient population, practitioners are always thinking about what diagnostic red flags to look out for, so they can diagnosis at a higher level and help more patients get well. When we talk about sleep, we often focus on quantity as it relates to the body's ability to recover from concussion, achieve optimum athletic performance levels, or heal from chronic conditions. However, we often neglect the role quality sleep plays in brain health; specifically, its links to poor memory, trouble concentrating, age-related dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease. Minimize your practice risk when you join our panel of experts, as they share sleep’s multi-faceted impact on health and why a truly holistic functional medicine approach must prescribe proper sleep.

Learning Objectives

• Review the physiology and neuro-biology of sleep • Diagnostic red flags for toxicity and oxidative stress effect on sleep • Sleep as it relates concussion, Alzheimer’s, and brain health • Discover innovative sleep tools to assist patient population • Reveal the connection between gut-brain axis and the effect on sleep

Sponsored by: Performance Health/Biofreeze Professional/TheraBand, Standard Process, Inc., The 100 Year LIfestyle, Health Realizations, Inc., CJ3 Consulting, LLC, N.E.T., Inc.,

Bio Posture, PosturePractice/BodyZone

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Sunday - 8/25/2019

10:20am-11:20am Celebration 11

GA Laws & Rules - Mark Cotney, DC

Georgia Laws and Rules

This class is for Georgia Doctors ONLY

Course Description

This is a one hour review of the laws and rules governing chiropractic practice in the State of Georgia. Dr. Cotney will have an emphasis on recent changes in board rules, new Georgia legislation and how it affects DC’s, as well as court cases involving Georgia DC’s. This class will aid practitioners as they are reminded of rules which are often overlooked.

Learning Objectives

• List chiropractic therapies that are allowed under GA law • Discuss the impact of the chiropractic protection bill • Discuss the importance of the chiropractic exemption for interstate insurance sales related to state mandated benefits


Ethics - Michael W. Mathesie, DC, DABFP, DACRB

Ethics and Boundaries

Sponsored by: Aspen Laser


Clinical CE - Brie Gindele, DC, CACCP

Optimizing the Pediatric Examination - Kick your pediatric exam up a notch & strengthen your pediatric care game!

Course Description

Learn how to take your basic adult intake and examination and kick it up a notch to be more specific to the pediatric population by age group. Understanding why you need to strengthen your exams and how to start by Monday! This course will give you the confidence to properly assess and examine any pediatric age group.

Learning Objectives

• Understand why examination is different with pediatrics and how to update your exams • Learn basic knowledge to start integrating age specific exams by Monday • Gain basic steps to ensure you intake, examine and care for your pediatric patients better

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Sunday - 8/25/2019


Clinical CE - Anthony L. Rosner, Ph.D., LL.D.(Hon.)

Fables of Foibles: Identifying Fake News in Research Studies

Course Description

For 65 years, the accepted standard by which the usefulness of therapeutic treatment is judged has been the randomized controlled trial (RCT), building from Hippocrates’ premise 2000 years ago that experience combined with reason was the therapy of choice for patients. In other words, any treatment plan should both seem reasonable in theory and then be tested experimentally. Assuming that any threats to both internal and external validity could be ruled out, the RCT became what is commonly regarded as the highest quality of clinical outcome study that could be mounted to allow inferences about cause and effect relationships to be drawn. Even higher in the traditional ordering of quality and rigor has been the systematic review and meta-analysis, amassing all the pertinent literature on a given subject to date and rating the rigors of these studies, both in the aggregate and individually. Thus, RCTs are rated higher than cohort studies or case series or case studies. This is shown in FIGURE 1a. But this totemic relationship ignores numerous sources of important research information, such as basic research, epidemiology, and health services research. In addition, models of evidence-based medicine (EBM) commonly used by third party payers have commonly ignored clinical judgment and patient values and expectations, which together form a tripartite with experimental results. Compounding the issue is that poor systematic reviews which comprise a significant portion of EBM are prone to subjective bias in their inclusion criteria and methodological scoring, shown to skew outcomes. Furthermore, the blinding concept that often elevates the quality score of RCTs is particularly problematic in applications of physical medicine. Finally, several examples of flawed and arguably fraudulent randomized controlled trials have appeared in the literature, becoming an integral part of many systematic reviews and consequently negatively impacting the chiropractic profession. Compounding the problem of the defective RCTs is the fact that they get swept into the mainstream media, seriously misinforming the public and other healthcare professions who have stayed away from chiropractors as a result.

Learning Objectives

• Learn the strengths and weaknesses of each of the building blocks of clinical research evidence: Systematic reviews, meta-analyses, RCTs, cohort studies, case series, case studies

• Comprehend the multiple conceptualizations of EBM and how the more traditional models have jeopardized chiropractic care • Gain an understanding of the rationale and importance of newer models of EBM, including the significance of epidemiology, cost-effectiveness, and nonclinical, basic research

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Sunday - 8/25/2019



Advanced Lower Extremity Adjusting - Part 2

Course Description

This 2-hour presentation covers the adjusting protocols for the supination pattern of the foot, hallux valgus, and heel spur adjustments. It also covers adjustments for the knee, patella and several hip adjustments. This course will also quickly review the concept of "The Noisy Joint". This course is a "hands-on" workshop designed after the principles of DELIBERATE PRACTICE. The doctor/student will quickly acquire adjusting skills for the most commonly encountered extremity conditions.

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Sunday - 8/25/2019


Clinical CE - Lisa Grassam-Smith, DC

The Myth of Osteoporosis - Breakthrough Evidence Based Science in Diagnosis & Reversing Osteoporosis

Course Description

We have a National Epidemic! By 2020 one in two Americans over the age of 50 will HAVE or be AT RISK for Developing Osteoporosis. 50% of the Postmenopausal women with Osteoporosis will have a fracture1 and will take Osteoporosis medication in their entire Lifetime!2 Osteoporosis is responsible for over 2 million3 fractures annually, with the estimated cost for osteoporosis & associated fractures at a cost of $25.3 billion annually by 2025 4 Osteoporosis is a silent deadly disease in that most people do not know they have it until the disorder is advanced. For these reasons, both prevention, early diagnosis and treatment of this disorder are becoming ever more critical, and Chiropractic Physicians should be the 1st line of duty. The Myth has been that simply taking extra calcium supplements you need can help prevent osteoporosis. You will see in this lecture that Published Controlled trial shows calcium supplementation has little effect on bone loss4. Taking drugs like Bisphosphonates doesn’t reverse osteoporosis, worse yet, carries life threatening side effects. 5 Two large randomized controlled 5-year trials of postmenopausal women shows significant reduction in fractures & increase in bone density by using one of the most abundant elements of the earth. Evidence also shows benefits for people over 80 that no other Anti-Osteoporosis treatment has demonstrated.6, 7 The concise plant based natural protocol you will learn is easy to use, no side effects and most importantly, It Works!

Learning Objectives

• Explain the state-of-the-art diagnosis, for clinicians on the practical side on how to diagnose, treat and maintain strong bone density • Consider all aspects of treatment options without missing anything important • Hands-on information and start to implement in your clinics to help your patients on Monday morning

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Sunday - 8/25/2019


Clinical CE - Beth Rizer, DC

Compression Band Flossing

Course Description

This course introduces the concept of skin/fascial/nerve gliding to help reduce tissue swelling, improve movement and modulate pain with the use of ‘compression band floss.’ This course will cover the anatomy, physiology and neurology of the effects of compression band flossing on connective tissue gliding, tissue traction and tissue compression. Interventions with compression band floss (including direction and pressure concepts) will be reviewed and integrated into current rehabilitative concepts. This course is intended for practitioners and therapists with a basic understanding of soft tissue techniques.

Learning Objectives

• Define, understand and integrate the myofascial sequencing model • Discover and explore neuroanatomy of the dermal/fascial subsystem • Describe and interpret the research as it relates to connective tissue gliding and pain modulation • Integrate banded floss techniques for soft tissue pathology as it relates to tension, direction and pressure

Sponsored by: Rock Tape

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Sunday - 8/25/2019


Clinical CE - John LaVere, DC

Science Behind Brain-Body Biomechanics: Eliminating Pain through Proper Function

Course Description

Movement through life does not just travel from point A to point B. It also incorporates how fluid and effortless the movement is to the proper destination. It gets more complicated unfortunately, because we are inundated with multiple distractors along the way. As we get older in life, we lose some of the ability to compensate and the aberrant movement patterns that use to cause little concern now start catching up to us. How the brain processes these changes, influences how our body compensates and rewiring of are neural moment pathways are then ingrained. How do we change this process that may have been happening for years and is now causing pain and discomfort? How do we identify these abnormal changes before they affect are daily quality of life? These are the questions I want to answer in this lecture and give tools to set up a proper treatment plan to correct these changes.

Learning Objectives

• Discuss how treating the body without understanding how it effects the brain is doing our patients a disservice • Discuss why balance is important and how to identify balance deficits quickly • Discuss all the component within the gait cycle and what muscles are firing at each component

• Discuss the reason why symmetry and consistency in the gait cycle is important • Discuss how adding additional stimuli and distractors can throw an individuals’ balance, timing, and coordination off track resulting in inconsistencies and asymmetrical movement • Discuss how this breakdown in function over time will eventual be the source for an individual’s pain

Sponsored by: Performance Health/Biofreeze Professional/TheraBand

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Sunday - 8/25/2019


Clinical CE - David Seaman, DC

Managing Chronic Pain and Related Conditions

Course Description

Americans continue to be plagued by chronic pain and related conditions, such as depression, unhealthy aging, gut dysbiosis, cancer, and heart disease. Each of these conditions have a similar underlying cause, that being chronic inflammation. In 1910, DD Palmer alerted the chiropractic profession chronic diseases represent a state of chronic inflammation. This class will focus on the dietary induction of chronic pain and related conditions.

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate an understanding of the key areas of biochemistry related to the expression of pain and chronic disease including • Describe how chronic inflammation promotes pain, depression, unhealthy aging, cancer and heart disease • Recommend nutritional supplements based on acute vs chronic inflammation presentations of pain


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Sunday - 8/25/2019



Digestion–Stress–Detox: Understanding Key Issues in Women’s Health; Digestion; Detoxification Done Right - Part 3

Course Description

The toxic burden we face in this modern-day world creates real problems. Our body also has to filter out endotoxins. When this natural process happens less than optimally, chronic disease can result. Proper detoxification is one of the best things we can do to help balance our hormones and the endocrine system. After all, the liver is a site for many hormone conversions as well as hormone elimination. Part 3 of this series is to look at all the ways toxins come into our lives and the consequences they can have on our health. Let’s look at what digestion, stress and detox have in common and how they relate to each other and women’s health. Finally, how to decide what a proper detox program looks like and how it should be done. Everyone can benefit from a detoxification and it can be a game changer in moving an individual’s health goals forward!

Learning Objectives

• Walk away with a clear understanding about how the body processes toxins and what it needs to do it effectively • Learn why it’s one of the most important tools in addressing health issues in woman • Learn how to choose the right detoxification program and additional support when necessary for best patient outcomes • Learn ways to introduce it into their clinic come Monday morning


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Sunday - 8/25/2019



The Brain Lab for the Modern Chiropractor- Moving Toward a Brain Based Model

Course Description

As innovative physicians, Chiropractors continue to integrate approaches into their delivery which allow and enhance the body and brain’s ability to heal, recover, and perform. We look at low-tech and high tech therapies that can upgrade a physician’s outcomes and quantify the biometrics pre/post treatments. “Neurotechnology is any technology that has a fundamental influence on how people understand the brain and various aspects of consciousness, thought, and higher order activities in the brain. It also includes technologies that are designed to improve and repair brain function and allow researchers and clinicians to visualize the brain.”

Learning Objectives

• Recognize the Neurology Chiropractic Impacts • Brain-based education/examinations • Brain-based patient education

Sponsored by: Performance Health/Biofreeze Professional/TheraBand, BrainMaster Technologies, Inc



What Could be Walking Through Your Door?

Course Description

This is a case-based lecture pulling from cases read for chiropractors across the nation. We will review a wide range of pathology from sports injury, arthritis, infection and neoplasm all of which have come through practicing Chiropractors doors. Proper utilization of imaging will be covered, and this will remind the practicing doctor that arthritis is not the only pathology that could come through their door!

Learning Objectives

• Review a wide range of pathology from sports injury, arthritis, infection and neoplasm • Utilization of imaging


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Sunday - 8/25/2019


Clinical CE - Cindy M. Howard, DC, DABCI, DACBN, FIAMA, FICC

Infection Susceptibility and the Influence of Stress

Course Description

This 2-hour presentation will cover the relationship of infection (viral, bacterial, parasitic and fungal), chronic disease, stress and the changes that occur within the HPA access. We will explore the connection of different types of stress: physical as well as emotional that will decrease one’s resistance to infection. The role of neurotransmitters affecting immune cells will affect the HPA axis. In addition, cortisol imbalances and inflammation can be connected with chronic infection. Research around chronic infection and the HPA axis will be presented. Treatment protocols to tackle even difficult cases of these types of conditions will be shared. Case studies on patients seen in practice will demonstrate the success in treating individuals with chronic HPA disfunction both with infection or at risk for infection. Infection Susceptibility and the Influence of Stress

Learning Objectives

• Understand the relationship of infection and stress • Understand the Connection of cortisol and Inflammation • Know how to utilize treatment protocols with current patient dealing with stress related infection


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Sunday - 8/25/2019


Clinical CE - Robert Silverman, DC, MS, DACBN, DCBCN, CNS, CCN, CSCS, CIISN, CKTP, CES, HKC, FAKTR

A Functional Approach to the Blood-Brain Barrier in Health and Trauma

Course Description

The blood brain barrier (BBB) is a physical barrier between the brain and the circulating blood, which restricts the movement of all soluble proteins from the blood across to the brain. Within hours of concussion or other traumatic brain injury (TBI), the BBB and intestinal barrier fail. This scenario allows for the invasion of intestinal bacterial toxins, neuronal tissue-binding food proteins and cross-reactive food protein antibodies into the once protected nervous system. Bacterial toxins, some of which cause SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth) contribute to systemic inflammation that cyclically keep the intestinal and blood-brain barriers open, even years after the trauma. Additionally, specific food lectins and agglutinins bind to myelin tissue. Patients with circulating food antibodies and/or lectins and agglutinins, who experience BBB breakage, are at the risk of reactive antibodies infiltrating the brain and causing neurological tissue damage. Once environmental trigger antibodies cause tissue damage, neurological autoantibodies can be produced, which will further contribute to the neuroautoimmune process. It is therefore important to implement a pro-brain dietary protocol and treatment strategy to heal the broken BBB. By taking proactive strategies, the risk of neurological disease occurring after the concussion or other TBI, can be significantly reduced.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the role of the blood-brain barrier in health and trauma • Understand how to properly assess the gut and the brain for better management of chronic neurological disorders • Expertly analyze intestinal and blood-brain barrier dysfunctions • Learn the aspects of modern lifestyles and the environmental triggers that are affecting the gut-brain axis and contributing to the neuroautoimmune epidemic • Understand how to create patient-friendly protocols to repair essential barriers when they are broken

Sponsored by: Biotics Research Corporation, Erchonia

1pm-2pm Barrel Spring I-II

- Kelly Miller, DC, NMD, FASA, FBAARM, CFMP

Saving Your Brain: Causes, Prevention & Reversal of Dementia & Alzheimer’s

Learning Objectives

• Educate attendees on the fastest growing cause of death in the United States. • Learn strategies that can help prevent this condition and possibly reverse it


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Sunday - 8/25/2019

1pm-2:40pm Orlando Ballroom N

Documentation - Michael W. Mathesie, DC, DABFP, DACRB

Accurate Documentation from a Forensic Viewpoint

Course Description

This 2 hour program will expand the physician’s knowledge of documentation, record keeping and coding. The perspective will be from the outsider looking at clinical records during an audit review. The class will also be from an expert witness’ perspective for who must evaluate the credibility of the physician’s records during a deposition or trial. The current guidelines and scientific evidence will be discussed to determine reasonable utilization parameters. The course will provide the attendee information to be more adept in presenting his/her clinical notes in a more logical and in a manner to increase the credibility of the records. The attendee will be able to document in a more organized manner the next day in the office.

Learning Objectives

• Discuss the current guidelines and scientific evidence to determine reasonable utilization parameters • Review information to be more adept in presenting his/her clinical notes in a more logical and in a manner to increase the credibility of the records • Learn how to document in a more organized manner

Sponsored by: Aspen Laser

1pm-2:40pm Orlando Ballroom M

Medical Errors - Alicia M. Yochum, RN, DC, DACBR, RMSK

Red Flags in Your Office

Course Description

This lecture will focus on possible red flags presenting to a chiropractor’s office for treatment. We will cover the clinical presentation, differential diagnosis and appropriate imaging for each entity. Varies pathologies will be reviewed which will remind us when and what imaging to order.

Learning Objectives

• Focus on possible red flags presented to a chiropractor’s office for treatment • Discuss the different diagnosis and appropriate imaging for each entity • Review pathologies to know when and what imaging to order for your patient


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Sunday - 8/25/2019

1pm-2:40pm Orlando Ballroom L



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3pm-4:40pm Orlando Ballroom N

Documentation - David Klein, CPC, CHC, CPMA

Protect Your Practice From Audits and Recoupment – The Critical Steps

Course Description

In this presentation, David Klein, a certified medical coder, auditor and compliance consultant will provide in-depth instruction on how to identify accurate and reliable resources to ensure compliant coding and documentation for reimbursement. He will discuss the critical resources every practice should have and include examples and scenarios. Attendees will learn how to properly utilize CPT, Medicare and Commercial Payer guidelines to ensure they are telling the proper story for maximum reimbursement.

Learning Objectives

• Review the key resources Providers must use when it comes to coding, documentation and billing • Identify the key authorities for documentation and coding when it comes to compliance and reimbursement

Sponsored by: PayDC

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Sunday - 8/25/2019

3pm-4:40pm Orlando Ballroom L



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Documents

THE NATIONAL BY FCA 2019 · 2019. 8. 7. · COURSE CATALOG FL Board of Chiropractic CE Provider #50-2667; Course #20-725566 August 22, 2019 - August 25, 2019 As of 8/7/2019. THE NATIONAL