BRAINSPINE CONNECTION

How can you separate yourself from other chiropractors?
As you start your business, how can you offer people in the community something different? Chiropractic neurology is something that has a four and a half year specialty that other chiropractors do not have. Take note that less than two hundred chiropractors in the entire country who have gone through Chiropractic neurology certification. It helps people who suffer from traditional neck and back pain but goes an extra mile to address other issues such as concentration issues, and anxiety, among other ailments. This means that it allows chiropractors to cover other groups of people such as hired athletes, people who have strokes, and even those who suffer from Parkinson’s disease. The treatment is brain-based meaning that it covers neurodegenerative systems. It gives patients another route to try to help them get relief.
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Requirements for Chiropractic Clinical Neurologist Certification
One must qualify to be a Traditional Doctor Chiropractor (DC) and be a part of the Diplomates Accredited Chiropractic Neurology Board (DACNB). For you to qualify for the DACNB, you have to go through a four-year course to be a diplomate. If you want to go through this course, you need to have over three hundred hours of either seminars or classes of neurology that deal with strokes, among other related issues. Once you have all this, you can sit for the board examination that lasts for two and a half days. This examination entails:

1. A written examination that has three hundred essay questions. They give scenarios of neurological patient issues that direct the person sitting the examination to provide a diagnosis and a treatment plan.
2. Practical r physical examination lasts for forty-five minutes, which is considered enough time to carry out a full-neuro workup on a live patient. They will ask you questions that are associated with the case scenario.

Once a person completes the course and passes, they are listed in the organization registry. This registry is available at the American Chiropractic Neurological Board website on https://www.acnb.org/. This acts as a database that can be used to pinpoint any clinical neurologists that are within your area. The website does not promote the businesses of the professionals; it only acts as evidence for the accredited chiropractic neurologists when it comes to clients who like doing background checks on their potential medics.
As a chiropractic neurologist, you are more equipped and knowledgeable in comparison to the traditional chiropractor. Thus, when patients visit you for the first time, most of them have no knowledge about what your credentials have to offer. They might have heard about it from other patients or friends and might need to inquire on what you do exactly on top of being a chiropractor. This is the starting point of unraveling your skills to the patent. This is how most patients get to understand what a chiropractic neurologist does. Therefore, you might want to include a fifteen-minute consult for the patient to help them understand your work.

Aims of Having a Consult Prior To Treatment

1. Establishing trust between the chiropractor and the patient through communication and patient education – This is a crucial step as it lets the patient understand why their body is going through the ailment. This regulates the patient’s victims, as they are not wholly depending on the chiropractic neurologist. They are able to understand that the body is self-sustaining and self-healing; the patient does not have to rely on drugs to feel better.
2. Forming a relationship that helps the chiropractor establish and sync with the goals of the patient

Sports neurology is a good concept especially for sport or fitness enthusiasts and professional athletes. It will help them work on their balance and coordination. It is still a spanner in the works now; with time, it will become an accepted concept.
The term “functional neurologist” covers numerous avenues such as those specifically dealing with children (pediatricians) and athletes, among others. Thus, it is a very broad concept that guarantees relief to people from all walks of nature.
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Examples of Patients Seeking Chiropractic Neurology Services

1. Those suffering from neck and back pain
2. Those in need of more balance- Balance in this sense covers people who feel unstable as they walk or those who experience dizzy spells when they are on escalators and elevators.
3. Those who have experienced a concussion or a history of concussions.
4. Athletes looking to perform at the pinnacle of human performance.