ICPA PedEx 74 - ICPA Membership

Pathways:

Our winter issue #12 is packed with great new articles about family wellness. These sections: Feature, Chiro Life and Research address colic and childhood digestion. Mail date is December 21st. Be sure to preorder your bulk subscriptions now, it seems we cannot keep Pathways on the shelves and we are selling out every issue!

Get a sneak preview of our titles here: http://www.icpa4kids.org/research/references12.htm
Subscribe here: http://www.icpa4kids.com/pathways/

Membership:

Sometimes doctors think they are members because they are receiving PedEx. Not so! You are only a current member of the ICPA if you are listed on our referral directory.

Check your membership status here: http://www.icpa4kids.com/locator/renewal.php

If you are not listed, you need to renew here: http://www.icpa4kids.com/join/

Collaborations:

The ICPA has formed an alliance with two national non-profits that will increase your exposure to more families and practitioners concerned with family wellness. In early January, we will announce these collaborations and how you benefit as an ICPA member.

Research Updates:

Have you been receiving our monthly Research Updates? If not, you can subscribe here: http://www.icpa4kids.com/research/

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Seminars:

New locations: Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Seattle
Current locations: Boston, Chicago, London, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Raleigh Durham, San Francisco

Webster Technique going "down under"...

Be on the Look Out--

We will be sending an "ICPA End of Year Report" so you can view the many accomplishments we have achieved in 2006. Included will be our 2007 goals as we take this momentum to another level of service for our members and chiropractic.

News to Use:

Avoid the Stress
"Most of us expect to come down with a cold or other illness when we are under pressure, but until now we have mostly had circumstantial evidence for a link between the brain and the immune system", says lead Garvan researcher Associate Professor Fabienne Mackay. Read more...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-12/ra-sre112905.php

Patient-Choice Vaginal Delivery?
From the article:
"Before we enthusiastically adopt the universal right of women to choose elective primary cesarean delivery, we must ask ourselves whether this issue is really about patient choice. If we agree that it is, then we ought also to support patient choice in situations that allow them to choose vaginal birth." http://www.annfammed.org/cgi/content/full/4/3/265

AAP Guidelines for SIDS

Two points of contention with these guidelines:

1- No-co-sleeping: see Pathways Issue 9 for the facts: http://www.icpa4kids.org/research/references10.htm
2- Pacifier Use: questionable how this recommendation was formed: Check out this link for more on pacifiers: http://www.mothering.com/sections/experts/palmer-archive.html#pacifiers

Interview with Harris Coulter, PhD
Submitted by Tedd Koren, D.C.
This is an excellent read!!
http://www.icpa4kids.com/membership/articles/coulter_interview.htm