The IFCO held their annual board meeting this past weekend in San Diego California and elected a new slate of leadership. The board elected Dr. Liam P. Schubel, President; Dr. Seth Levine, Vice President; Dr. Lauren Hamm, Treasurer; and Dr. Felicia Stewart, Secretary.
Proclaiming "a new day for chiropractic leadership globally" Schubel expressed his gratitude for the faith that the Board placed in him and his fellow officers and stated, “this new administration will carry out the mission and vision of the IFCO with great passion and commitment.”
The leadership changes at the IFCO come at an opportune time for conservative, traditional chiropractic as the American Chiropractic Association (ACA) just recently re-branded itself. The ACA drew a clear line in the sand with its re-branding efforts by effectively excluding any chiropractor from membership that uses objective measures to assess the biomechanical aspects of subluxation through the use of radiographs.
The ACA now requires its members to pledge allegiance to any standards of care guidelines it adopts and one example of the new standards being promulgated by the ACA are its new x-ray guidelines.
The ACA released a list of five tests it states are commonly ordered but not always necessary in chiropractic care. The recommendation includes the admonition to not take spinal x-rays in acute low back pain patients unless there are so called Red Flags and to never take repeat x-rays to monitor progress. Teaming up with ABIM Foundation and Consumer Reports, the ACA’s President David Herd DC referred to these as “unneeded or overused services” and that following these recommendations would yield the “best possible care”.
The ACA has decided to carve out a niche of providers for musculoskeletal pain syndromes and jettison any notion that they support a subluxation based paradigm. This, from an organization that once led the Save Our Subluxation Campaign in the 90's.
While other state and national organizations besides the IFCO purportedly representing the traditional, conservative faction of the profession have not abandoned subluxation as the ACA has done, they have certainly moved in the ACA's direction in regards to their support of the Chiropractic Cartel, scope of practice expansion, expansion of medicare, support of primary care, DOT physicals, urine testing and a wide range of services beyond the analysis and correction of vertebral subluxation.
According to Schubel such is not the case at the IFCO, "The IFCO mission has remained fixed for decades: to promote and protect the chiropractic practice of locating, analyzing, and correcting vertebral subluxation because vertebral subluxation is a detriment to the expression of one’s human potential and life experience".
IFCO Chairman of the Board, Dr. Peter Kevorkian added, “the Board is crystal clear on the IFCO’s purpose and it will soon roll out a new image campaign that will advance the IFCO’s role in chiropractic and in the human potential movement".
Full Press Release from IFCO:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 22, 2018
Contact: Ms. Emily Morash execdir@ifcochiro.org 989-310-9028
IFCO WELCOMES NEW OFFICERS
The Board of Directors of the International Federation of Chiropractors and Organizations (IFCO) are pleased to announce newly elected officers for 2018-2020: Dr. Liam P. Schubel, President; Dr. Seth Levine, Vice President; Dr. Lauren Hamm, Treasurer; and Dr. Felicia Stewart, Secretary. Officers were elected at the IFCO Board annual meeting this past weekend in San Diego, CA.
Newly elected president Schubel proclaimed a new day for chiropractic leadership globally. He expressed his gratitude for the faith that the Board placed in him and his fellow officers and stated, “this new administration will carry out the mission and vision of the IFCO with great passion and commitment.”
Schubel stressed that the IFCO mission has remained fixed for decades: to promote and protect the chiropractic practice of locating, analyzing, and correcting vertebral subluxation because vertebral subluxation is a detriment to the expression of one’s human potential and life experience. He noted that with a steadfast mission, he will take the next several weeks to critically evaluate the current operations and committee structure to provide a strategy that will make the IFCO stronger and more effective than ever before.
IFCO Chairman, Dr. Peter Kevorkian added, “the Board is crystal clear on the IFCO’s purpose and it will soon roll out a new image campaign that will advance the IFCO’s role in chiropractic and in the human potential movement. The IFCO is running a budget surplus putting it in a strong position to adequately fund its initiatives for 2018.”
The IFCO, a global organization, insures a chiropractor’s right to practice, a patient’s right to receive, a student’s right to learn and an institution’s right to teach the location, analysis, and correction of vertebral subluxation because vertebral subluxation is a detriment to the expression of one’s human potential and life experience. 2018 will be the year during which IFCO will grow globally in its important role to protect and advance chiropractic in the way our founders envisioned...a better world because of the absence of vertebral subluxation.
To find out more about the IFCO, please visit our website at www.ifcochiro.org and/or contact our executive director, Emily Morash, at execdir@ifcochiro.org.
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