Community Minimizes Classified Ad Fraud Activity
By planetc1.com-news | July 4, 2008
Active community participation is key to building an empowered community. When it comes to the Planet Chiropractic Classified ad System, participation is not a requirement, but it is critical to community success. For many users of the ad system, participation is equals browsing advertisements, posting ads, contacting buyers and sellers, and basically using the service as it was intended. While that's great (and we are thankful for the amount of user activity the site receives) I've been impressed by the stepped up participation, particularly among sellers of private equipment.
Those that assume ads are viewed only by chiropractors may be forgetting the internet is a big place and ads are viewable by all who choose to search or browse them (ads do appear in search engine results). We have covered topics related to scam emails, I can haz ur money scams, and tips on avoiding scams. In nearly every one of these cases the setup is the same. View the link articles for more details.
Community involvement this week was terrific, with several individuals selling office equipment, reporting a fraudulent email attempt within minutes of being contacted. That kind of participation allows us to take action quickly and do what it takes to block further attempts from the same scammer having success in contacting anyone else on the network. I believe active participation will lead to better results, higher levels of volunteerism, and greater community spirit.
Below is one of the forwarded messages received today. We received notice from at least 3 individuals that had items listed and they all involved the same email body and suspicious email address.
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From: [deleted]@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:52:27
Subject: Reply To Ad - Welch Allyn Pan Optic Ophthalmoscope / Otoscope
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BELOW IS A REPLY TO YOUR CLASSIFIED AD
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If you believe this reply is fraudulent, forward it to mail [@] planetc1.com
Ad Headline: Welch Allyn Pan Optic Ophthalmoscope / Otoscope
Posted To: Chiropractic Classifieds
Hello Seller,
In response to your item posted for sale. I am an agent interested in making an immediate purchase of it.
After several consideration over the advert placed on the website, my client who has really shown interest in it and would want to issue the payment.
But before I proceed on this transaction I will like to ask some question as follows.
1. Is the condition of the item what you have describe it to be?
2. What is the final asking prize you can go at last?
3. Do you accept a certified cheque/money order as a mode of payment?
4,Can the picture send to me via email for proper view?
Also I would like to restate clearly that this item will be shipped to Australia and I have a shipping agent who would take good care of this. You are to cash the Check you will receive and deduct the funds for the sales of your item and please have the excess funds sent to the shipping agent in order to schedule the pick up of the item.
All necessary transfer papers will be dully signed by the shipper on behalf of my client when the shipping agents comes for the pick up of the item.
I will be willing to entertain more of your questions that might arise, please provide your
FULL NAME:
MAILING ADDRESS:
PHONE NUMBER:
So that I can have it forwarded to my client for immediate payment issuance
Looking forward to hear from you.
Regards.
TOM MARLEY
FLAT 62 REWARD RD,
12 MONSAL COURT E 05 JJ,
LONDON UK.
+447031866761.
+447031878451.
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Notice how similar the email above is to this one, this one, and this one. When it comes to buying or selling, use common sense and don't assume everyone that contacts you is a friendly chiropractor intending to enrich your life.
Thanks everybody. For those in the US, don't eat too many hot dogs and have a fabulous 4th of July weekend!
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Great T-Shirt to Wear at Your Chiropractors
By Chiropractic Blogs | July 3, 2008
By Michael Dorausch, DC
A fine young gentleman (punk rocker kid) was in my office for a chiropractic adjustment and was wearing the T-shirt shown here.
Live the Life That I Know Is Right for Me — Drug Free
Thought that was a cool T-shirt and was fitting for a visit to one’s chiropractor. Remember, when we talk drugs on Planet Chiropractic, were not just referring to marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and other recreational medications, that have selectively been made illegal by various authorities. No, there are the prescription drugs, antibiotics, psychotropic medications, and all sorts of other pills and potions that get pushed and prescribed.
Here’s another view of that T-shirt without the hand blocking it…
Beside the drugs that are in our drinking water, this young man is probably doing a pretty good job of keeping himself natural. Congrats to that!
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Geek Stuff during Non-Chiropractor Hours
By Chiropractic Blogs | July 2, 2008
By Michael Dorausch, DC
It’s almost the Fourth of July weekend and we likely won’t be posting much content to Planet Chiropractic until Monday. I’ve been a webmaster for more than a decade now and I’m probably not alone in being one of those that does server reboots, site maintenance, and other related web site stuff during holiday weekends. A 4th of July Friday night past midnight is a great time to be working on your server. Traffic is usually really sparse.
I’m posting a few geek pics from local activities I do when not in my chiropractic office, or at the helm of computers in the planetc1 office.
In the photograph above is “AL” who had some pretty cool mobile computing gadgetry. I believe one phone was a Nokia and I don’t know what the other model was. He had hooked up mini keyboards to both of them, which created a really cool and compact wireless experience. I want.
Pictures I’m sharing here were all taken at barcamp Los Angeles Number 5. This is not the San Diego barcamp, it was the event held at the AOL offices in Beverly Hills.
The office at America Online (AOL) had these really cool orange chairs that looked like they should be in a space movie. Chiropractor approved although I did not get a chance to hang out in them for a long time since we were on another floor for the barcamp event. Just got a brief tour of AOL. Great place!
I actually hang out with geeks quite a bit. Fortunately in Los Angeles there is a ginormous amount of activity going on and there’s lots of stuff to attend. Twiistup 3 was in January and I’m looking forward to Twiistup in a couple of weeks at the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica.
The people putting together this event have really been working hard and I expect it will be spectacular. Also great it’s right in my neighborhood. Gotta love that.
That’s Nicole Jordan with her trusty Macbook. She’s one of the people putting on Twiistup 4 and I believe she’s quite active in helping set up SummerMash Los Angeles as well.
To my knowledge, the mash event is going to be at the Rubicon Project offices in Santa Monica. Very cool place. Just took a few photographs there this past week as they hosted two terrific events.
Certainly not the first time nerds have taken over Hollywood and Santa Monica. It’s becoming a more popular theme though. I think there’s more parties now than there was in 1998 and 1999.
Wonder if anyone remembers Internet World and the parties that were had in downtown LA during the .com boom? Fun times.
The T-shirt above shows sponsors from BARCAMP LA #5. Planet Chiropractic sponsored the event along with the other companies shown (like Yahoo developer network). Turned out to be a great investment even if only for the T-shirts. Geeks are funny with their “Schwag” that they get when attending events. It’s like a rock concert stuff I used to get in the 1970s and 1980s.
I’ve had dozens of instances when I’ve seen someone in Los Angeles wearing one of these T-shirts. I find that neat. The LA community has also been great in helping promote our website in the local community. Not necessarily for chiropractic patients seeking chiropractors, but for issues such as WordPress hacks, site maintenance, local webdesign, marketing, and getting a ton of traffic.
For those of you in the United States, have a spectacular 4th of July weekend! Webmasters rejoice, it’s a great time to reboot servers. 
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A Simple Truth regarding Failure
By planetc1.com-news | July 2, 2008
Do you accept failures as truth? Many of us do and it is unfortunate. When you accept a failure as truth you limit your potential and artificially lower the ?norm.?
It is no more evident than in health care. Our western society has developed a system of health care based on failures and accepted it as normal and unfortunately as healthy. A colleague of mine recently had a conversation with an orthopedic surgeon who specialized in spinal surgery. The surgeon was profusely admitting the failures of his profession. That of all people who go in for a spine surgery over half will be back within a couple of years to have the same procedure on a different area. Again, over half will return within a couple of years for the same surgery. And the cycle continues to repeat itself. I ask, how is this helpful?
An April 2008 study stated between the years 2002 and 2004 over $2 Billion were spent on Medicare alone. The same study stated 240,000 Medicare patients died in hospitals due to mistakes by the hospital or doctor. This on the heels of a 2000 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association which stated the USA is 39th out of 41 industrialized nations in terms of overall health and last in infant mortality. It also stated we spend the most money doing it. Throughout the 1990?s research reports stated that people were dying at the hands of medicine so fast it was equivalent to one jumbo jet airliner crashing EVERY DAY (that?s approximately 350 people per day).
THAT?S WHY CHIROPRACTIC IS DIFFERENT. That?s why chiropractic focuses on function, rather than feeling. That?s why we don?t want to become medicalized. Because it works! It works without anything else added. It is its purity and simplicity that makes it work.
That is why we teach you to listen to your innate, your inner intelligence which guides you through life. If you had to use your conscious self to tell your heart to beat, lungs to breathe, digest food, move, urinate, defecate, hold onto sperm and egg cells, hear, see, feel, and love all at the same time, COULD YOU DO IT consciously?
NO! That?s why you were blessed with an inner self that can do all of that without you having to think about it. Saying you don?t believe in Chiropractic or that Chiropractic isn?t scientific is like saying you don?t believe in gravity or that gravity is an unscientific principle. Gravity, like Chiropractic is. It works every time.
All you need to do is accept its success as truth the same way you have come to accept medicine?s failures as truth. And the truth shall set you free.
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Dr. Brian Nardi, is an Avon area Chiropractor, practicing in the state of Connecticut. His office is located on W. Main St (highway 202) in the city of Avon.
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How You Create Insanity in a Society
By planetc1.com-news | July 1, 2008
"Do you understand the enlightenment and the healing that takes place in a human being when all of a sudden they find out they can do something about their health? The absolute slavery that has occurred in the hearts and minds of people in this country has been the fact that they have been blamed for being sick and given no way to do anything about it." Ian Grassam, Chiropractor
This is installment number four of a historically motivational talk given by chiropractor Ian Grassam in 1997. Website visitors may want to read part 1, part 2, and part 3 before continuing on to read the information presented here.
Here is Ian Grassam...
That?s how you create insanity in a society, do you understand that? When you blame them for their problems and tell them there?s no way for them to take control ? they have to come to me to buy their health.
It?s already been proven ? you put two monkeys in a cage and every time one monkey screws up you belt the other one. Guess who gets ulcers? The guy that?s getting belted ? he didn?t do nothing, he can?t fix it, he?s not the cause, he?s not responsible. When you take a society of people and you tell them that sickness comes from on high, and that they?re suffering because they were bad - do you remember those days? Your mother and father told ya that if you weren?t good you were going to get it ? God?ll getchya ? you remember those days? I was always afraid of God. Cuz I was screwin? up regular when I was a kid.
The reality is, that?s the way you were raised. See, if you were never taught the cause of life, cause of peace, cause of joy, cause of success already dwells within you. Because like Freddy says in his lectures, he says if you encapsulate me in cocoon, hermetically seal me, and I drop dead he said I?ll still rot from the inside out because everything necessary to kill me is in me. And everything necessary to have me born again is already in me. And it?s the balance that innate creates within that human body so that it?s in a constant state of evolution and revolution mentally, physically and spiritually.
When you understand that?s what creates the dynamics of your existence. My God, do you understand that power sitting there just renewing you every day, every minute, every afternoon, every evening, every morning, every lunch, every dinner ? you?re renewed, you?re rebuilt, you?re regenerated. You?re reestablished as a human being every day. Every day ? you?re brand new. Mentally, physically and spiritually and ready to rock and roll and change the world we live in. But the people you have to deal with out there have no idea. No idea that they are at cause over their life. They?re victims aren?t they?
Don?t you see them every day? Woe is me, things are terrible and getting worse. There?s no chance for me I can?t fix it ? waah. And then some lunatic like you walks in. You say "What the hell?s the matter with you? You don?t like it? Change it! You?re not happy with it? Move! Get something. Do something. Isn?t that the Nike commercial ? just do it?
I was kidding with the students at LACC the other day, at LACC ? you get up in the morning, you put on your damn Nike cap. You put on your Nike jacket, it?s got the phhtt on the back. You got your Nike phhtt on your shoes. It?s on your freakin? tote bag ? phhtt Nike. You got this symbol all over you ? it?s probably in your god damn underwear. And then you can?t figure out what to do. Do it!
You?ve got a "Just Do It" symbol all over your bloody life and you can?t figure out what to do! Does that make sense? And you go out and buy things to advertise this company?s product. Phill Knight?s having a ball with you guys. He says, none of them even know what to do ? and they keep buying my "Do it" symbol. You know what to do. Tell the story, tell the story, tell the story.
For who?s benefit? For your own! Because as you understand what it is you do and as you understand your purpose in life, and you keep repeating it and repeating it and repeating it, what are you doing? You?re evolving your mind, you?re evolving your spirit, and evolving all the trash out of your head.
Every time you take a shower and you get up in the morning and you towel off ? what are you washing off? The old you! The old body parts that are wearing out. Whatever you had for breakfast today is what ? walkin? talkin? flesh n? blood tomorrow, isn?t it? Provided the nerve system?s functioning properly. Well that same thing holds true in your mind. The old thoughts have to be thrown out. What do you think you?re here for? This is a weekend of a mental catharsis which you get to throw out all of the trash that has held you back for the last thirty years of your life.
It?s time to trash it, get rid of it, scrub it, clean it, flush it, whatever it takes. Get it outta there. And ask yourself the question, why is it that I am not living up to my potential which I damn well know I should be. How many of you here know you?re better than you think you are ? raise your hand.
You are bigger than you think! Do you understand that ? you are bigger than you think. What does that mean? It means you are bigger than your ability to think. Thinking is a very limited process. If you sit down and try to define yourself by your level of understanding you?ll never reach your potential. Because your level of understanding is based on what? The past!
Your level of understanding, everything you measure ? fear, all of your anxieties, all of your limitations, based on what? The past!
If you have an unlimited future and you move in that direction, then you have an unlimited you. If you ? everything you think about, every fear you have, every anxiety you experience, every tug at the inside that stops you from being all that you can be, is based on something that happened yesterday. Isn?t it? Do you know why? Because you haven?t lived tomorrow to establish the limitations of the next day ? think about that. My only fears are based on the past. And yet I?m a chiropractor who lives with an unlimited future.
Any fear you experience, any feeling you have that holds you back, is based on something that happened ten or fifteen years ago. Drop it. And drop it now. But be prepared for what happens when you become the big nut.
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Southern California College of Chiropractic
By Chiropractic Blogs | July 1, 2008
By Michael Dorausch, DC
Over the weekend that was reviewing some nostalgic chiropractic magazines (like the 1996 ICA Review) and I was reminded of a chiropractic school that used to exist in the Pasadena area of southern California.
The Southern California College of Chiropractic was still in business when I started my chiropractic education in the mid 1990s. I believe the school closed around late 1995 or sometime in 1996, with the majority of students transferring to Cleveland Chiropractic College in Los Angeles. Here is some historical information from a 1995 FACTS (Foundation for the Advancement of Chiropractic Tenets and Science) booklet which included information on chiropractic colleges…
Southern California College of Chiropractic
William R. Boone, DC, President
8420 Beverly Road
Pico Rivera, CA 90660
Southern California College of Chiropractic, formerly Pasadena College of Chiropractic, was founded in 1972. The College is located in a residential area, approximately 8 miles south east of Los Angeles. There are plans to relocate in the near future to a site more conducive to its growing student body.
In December 1992 the college was granted accredited status with Straight Chiropractic Academic Standards Association (SCASA).
Southern California College of Chiropractic is committed to teaching the location, analysis, and correction of vertebral subluxation. All aspects of the College program have been designed to assure that students have the proper qualifications to sit for licensure examinations. The program also provides the basis for students to master the necessary skills to practice in a professional and safe manner.
The college has applied for accreditation with CCE. It is not known when a decision will be announced by the CCE as to its accreditation status.
Degree(s) offered: Doctor of Chiropractic
Prerequisites: H.S. Graduate; 60 selected college science and humanities
Academic/calendar years for degree: 3.3/3.3
Classes admitted per year: 3 (Jan/May/Sept)
Total student enrollment (Winter ‘93): 131
No. of faculty: II full-time; 10 part-time
Annual patient visits at college clinic(s): 13,409
I’d like to hear from any of the students that attended Southern California College of Chiropractic or the Pasadena College of Chiropractic who may or may not still be practicing in the Southern California area.
I never visited the SCCC, but from what I heard by students that transfered to Cleveland, it was the only West Coast based “Straight Chiropractic School.” I don’t think the school ever received their CCE accreditation, which likely led to the school closing around 1996. Does the Straight Chiropractic Academic Standards Association (SCASA) still exist?
For those not familiar with Southern California geography, the schools location (8420 Beverly Road - Pico Rivera, CA 90660) was situated centrally to the areas of Pico Rivera, Montebello, Monterey Park, Rosemead, El Monte, and Whittier. Southern California University of Health Sciences was located less than 10 miles away, and Cleveland Chiropractic College was located less than 20 miles away, likely putting significant pressure on the chiropractic school to maintain enrollment. Lack of CCE accreditation was probably a nail in the coffin for this California chiropractic educational facility.
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Meet a Chiropractor - Scott Swanson of San Francisco
By planetc1.com-news | June 30, 2008
It's been said that there are as many different ways to practice chiropractic as there are chiropractors. Each chiropractor brings to the profession a uniqueness and individual sense of self. They take the clay of chiropractic foundation, and mold it into shapes that form the representation of themselves as a doctor of chiropractic. While there's no denying that chiropractors differ from one another, there are numerous things that they share in common. What do you say we get to know some of them better?
Meet Scott Swanson, a chiropractor practicing in San Francisco, California. I had the pleasure of interviewing him recently for this Planet Chiropractic article, and I'm happy to share his story.
Scott Swanson, DC
Parkside Chiropractic
2394 31st Avenue - San Francisco, CA 94116 -- 415-566-7134
PC: Thanks for taking the time to participate in this interview Dr. Swanson, and thanks for e-mailing us a photo and information about your office, it will come in handy for those that may be seeking a chiropractor in the San Francisco area.
PC: All chiropractors in the United States must attend an accredited chiropractic school before they can be licensed to practice. Where do you choose to attend and why?
Dr. Swanson: After visiting Palmer Davenport, National and Western States, I decided on Palmer West. The tour of the anatomy lab really impressed me. I received my Doctor of Chiropractic from Palmer College of Chiropractic West in 2002.
PC: What adjustive techniques do you currently practice?
Dr. Swanson: In our office we offer many treatments for the average person that are also used to keep pro athletes in top shape including Graston Technique, Kinesiotaping, as well as traditional chiropractic adjustments.
PC: Is there a specific type of patient you see in your practice, such as athletes or children?
Dr. Swanson: Our patient population is very diverse, we treat everyone from the whiplash victim to the 91 year old (no kidding chiropractic has kept him in great shape), to the middle school football player.
PC: With today's concerns regarding health care coverage and affordability of care, what forms of payment you provide for members of your practice?
Dr. Swanson: We accept cash, credit cards, have convenient payment plans, and are preferred providers with most insurance plans.
PC: We know you're located in San Francisco, any specific landmarks?
Dr. Swanson: Our office is located in the beautiful Sunset District of San Francisco near Ocean Beach right on the L Taraval Muni line.
PC: I would imagine parking could be a tough thing in a city like yours, how is your office situated?
Dr. Swanson: Our office is on the ground floor of an apartment building and we have plenty of free street parking which is a rarity in the city. We have two private adjusting rooms and an area for rehabilitative exercise and massage.
PC: Tell us more about you, how did you get introduced to chiropractic?
Dr. Swanson: About 20 years ago when I was a middle schooler back in Corvallis, Oregon, my parents and I were driving in the family car to pick up my sister at tennis camp. I was in the back seat and remember we were going across a bridge with the traffic backed up ahead of us. We were forced to come to a stop in the middle and then suddenly?BAM!?we were hit from the rear by a car that was following too closely.
I recall that my neck snapped back but I was not aware of any problem at that moment. We were able to drive away afterwards after determining that apparently the car was okay and so were we. However, a day or so later things changed dramatically for me. I was at practice with my middle school football team and the coach was having us do a neck stretching exercise. That?s when it hit me?severe pain and stiffness in my neck. I had to leave the field and, for a time, my football team.
My mom took me to our family doctor and he gave me some pain pills and a warning to stay away from the game until the neck healed on its own. But the pain stayed with me and the pills only covered it up for a while. I was a kid who loved football and was depressed about missing it. Then a family friend suggested visiting a Chiropractor he knew.
Well, to make a long story short, I did visit that specialist who gave what I later learned were "adjustments" over a few visits to re-align my spine. He told me some of my vertebrae were kicked out of whack with the impact of the accident and caused all the neck pain. Within a week my neck was back to normal. I felt no pain no matter how much I stretched my neck.
As a kid, I remember being pretty amazed that a little manipulation of my spine could totally cure my neck. I expressed that amazement to the doctor and he said something to me that pretty much changed my life. He said that a lot of people are astonished at how something so gentle and painless could have such miraculous effects. And he also said "Scott, maybe when you grow up you?d like to help people as I much as I was able to help you."
PC: That's cool your chiropractor planted the seed for you to become a chiropractor as well. If a patient asked, are there any particular chiropractic schools you would recommend they attend?
Dr. Swanson: All the chiropractic schools are great but if asked I would of course recommend my Alma Mater Palmer West! I believe their education is top notch.
PC: Chiropractors now practice all over the world. What's your particular community like?
Dr. Swanson: San Francisco really is a wonderful place to live. The weather is comfortable here all year round, most often it is from 60-70 with some sun shining. Any given weekend there are a plethora of cultural, outdoor and city events to choose from, my favorite event every year is the Fleet Week Airshow. The views here cannot be beat, the Golden Gate Brigde, Marina Green and Embarcadero are amazing and you are close to world class wines in Napa, world class skiing in Tahoe and the wonderful beaches of Santa Cruz.
PC: Sounds spectacular. That's quite a place to live and practice. Are you involved in any local programs that serve the community (besides in your office)?
Dr. Swanson: I believe everyone has the obligation not just to better themselves but better their communities as well. I volunteer my services at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic for HIV+ patients and the Rock Medicine program which provides medical care at rock concerts. I also serve on the board of our local merchants association.
PC: Besides having a chiropractor like you, what is your city's claim to fame?
Dr. Swanson: San Francisco's claim to fame could differ a lot depending on who you ask. The Golden Gate Bridge is here of course but we also have the biggest Bloomingdales outside of New York and we were the first city to allow gay marriage.
PC: Who are some of the people you have enjoyed helping the most?
Dr. Swanson: I have been lucky enough to work with some wonderful people, our local heroes, police officers and firefighters. Also the Butler Brothers Pro Motocross Team at the Supercross in San Francisco and Aurelia Cats judge on NBC's Celebrity Circus TV show.
PC: A local San Francisco news reporter steps into your office and asks what you do. Your response?
Dr. Swanson: We get people well fast and keep them that way by providing top notch care for people of all ages using the latest treatment techniques.
PC: Thank you for taking the time to answer my questions Dr. Swanson. This will make a great article.
Dr. Swanson: Thanks for the opportunity for this interview Planet Chiropractic!!!!
The contact information for the chiropractor interviewed...
Chiropractor San Fransisco
Scott Swanson, DC -- Parkside Chiropractic
2394 31st Avenue - San Francisco, CA 94116
415-566-7134
Do you know a chiropractor Planet Chiropractic should be interviewing? Tell them to read and add their practice information to the comments on this Chiropractors blog post, so they can be added to the interview pipeline. It's as simple as that.
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Adjust Your Advertising Subluxated Pen
By Chiropractic Blogs | June 30, 2008
By Michael Dorausch, DC
Yesterday I authored a post regarding a 1996 ICA Review magazine and I mentioned that in the entire publication there was only one use I could find of an e-mail address being printed. None of the author bios included e-mail addresses, none of the classified advertisements mentioned e-mail, none of the ads for more than two dozen vendors listed an e-mail address for further contact, except one.
Take a look at the very bottom of the ad and you’ll notice an e-mail address for ix.netcom.com. Anybody remember Netcom and those 3 1/2 inch floppy disks they used to mail out so you could sign up for their service? I think I had my first netcom account about this time, somewhere around 1994 or 1995.
I’ve checked some 1994 ICA Review publications and this same advertiser was taking out ads during that time. From what I could find they added the e-mail address contact sometime during 1996.
Even though this bent pen advertising is from 1996 I think the company is still in business today. I know that Dr. Fred Schofield and Dr. Luke Cohen have continued using these subluxated pens as part of there in office marketing for more than a decade. I believe a number of different companies either distribute these pens for this company, or they make their own versions.
I have not used the subluxation pen in my office but I have used plastic spine key chains, which patients have loved. If anyone has a good source for a current maker for these pens, post it in the comments and let’s give them some business.
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1996 ICA Review and Who Had a Website
By Chiropractic Blogs | June 29, 2008
By Michael Dorausch, DC
This morning I was scanning through a 1996 copy of the ICA Review (International Review of Chiropractic) and I noticed there was almost no evidence of anyone claiming to have a website or e-mail address. The publication is nearly 12 years old, but surely there had to be at least somebody mentioning the Internet in some fashion. I was attending chiropractic college at the time (CCCLA) and was quite active on the Internet, but was anyone else?
I went back through the 98 page publication page by page, checking contact information for vendors, e-mail addresses for chiropractic authors, and web site URLs of chiropractic schools that were advertising in the publication. I even checked all the chiropractic classified ads on the last page.
There were ads for companies such as Foot Levelers, King Koil (a mattress Co.), Zenith (adjusting tables), Quest Seminars, New York Chiropractic College, Team WLP, and Document Plus (a billing company). Of all of the two dozen plus advertisers, there was only one mention of e-mail and one mention of a website. Not a single author included an e-mail address in their bio and there was no inclusion of e-mail addresses or web sites listed in any of the classified ads.
So who would have a chiropractic website in 1996, and would be listing the URL in trade magazines? Take a look at the ad below for Life Chiropractic College West.
The advertisement reads “I want to be the best chiropractor I can be and I want the best education I can get. That’s why I chose Life West.” - Terri Lumm 1995 Graduate
I wasn’t surprised that the only chiropractic advertisement in the entire publication was for Life West chiropractic college. Does anyone remember the latest stuff from Gerry e-mails that when out in the mid 1990s? He was on the cutting edge in communicating chiropractic on the Internet.
What I found funny about the advertisement was that someone goofed up on the URL structure. Probably a common mistake when printing website URLs in 1996. Take a look at this close-up…
Notice the URL structure reads HTTP: W/WWW.LIFEWEST.EDU/ I just tried running that through my Firefox browser which results in an error message Address Not Found (Firefox can’t find the server at w.). Nonetheless, I think it’s an interesting look it chiropractic history on the Internet to see who was promoting their website in September of 1996.
By the way, 2005 Via Barrett, San Lorenzo, CA 94580-1368 is no longer a valid address for the chiropractic college. The school is located at 25001 Industrial Blvd., Hayward, CA, 94545 and they can be reached at (800) 788-4476.
I’ll get to the one advertiser mentioning their e-mail address and will have this post updated.
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Autism Vaccination Discussion Continues On
By planetc1.com-news | June 29, 2008
News of autism and questionable connections to mass child vaccination programs, continue to spark fiery discussions that separate those that feel there is distinct link between vaccination in the development of autism, and those who claim there is no signs to support such accusations. The topic of vaccination and autism is in the news again this weekend as federal health officials reportedly held a meeting today to discuss a case of a nine-year-old girl who became autistic after receiving numerous vaccinations. They are also discussing another case, in which a six-year-old girl from Colorado received a flu vaccine (FluMist) and died after becoming weak, and being hospitalized for surgical intervention.
Death of a child is a high price to pay for vaccinating against the flu, especially when vaccine effectiveness is questionable. Parents have the right to be informed as to the risks associated with receiving such vaccines. Some will argue that the benefits of vaccinating children during flu season far outweigh the risks, but critics, including parents that have grown increasingly agitated, want more answers and less mandates. Parents that have chosen not to vaccinate their children are not irresponsible faith healing whack jobs, as some reporters in the major media have made them out to be, they are individuals that have rights and freedoms which deserve to be upheld.
According to news from the New York Times news service, federal health officials gathered today along with some of the world's leading experts to discuss the case of Hannah Poling, a child whose family (her father is a neurologist) received a settlement from a federal vaccine injury fund, after it was found the young girl developed autism soon after receiving childhood vaccines.
As government and public health officials continue to claim no link has been made between vaccines and autism, parents continue to shout otherwise. Among those parents are those receiving quite a bit of attention, such as Jenny McCarthy, who spoke on Oprah in September of 2007, to bring greater attention to parents battles with autism, and a quest for answers.
The autism debate is not over, it rages on, while scientists, parents, and public officials, continue seeking answers to the seemingly unanswerable question... What is the cause of rising autism rates in the United States?
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Autism case at meeting forefront
Experts to Discuss One Puzzling Autism Case, as a Second Case Has Arisen
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