Latest Ontario health care Podcast Episodes
Fostering Self-Care Rituals for Healthier Lives
ON Spinal Chat - February 27, 2024 20:00 - 23 minutesWith a growing number of Canadians interested in self-care as we transition from the pandemic, Dr. Dwight Chapin, the OCA’s Chiropractor of the Year in 2018 wrote: "Take Good Care: 7 Wellness Rituals for Health, Strength and Hope." To bring evidence-based research to life, he engaged 21 influent...
Managing Pain with Interdisciplinary Care: Part 2
ON Spinal Chat - September 29, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutesIn part two of this series on pain management, Dr. Demetry Assimakopoulos returns to provide a more in-depth view of the work chiropractors do at the Comprehensive Pain Program at the University Health Network (UHN) and the Pain and Wellness Centre in Vaughan. Both these clinics were founded and...
Managing Pain with Interdisciplinary Care: Part 1
ON Spinal Chat - May 04, 2023 05:15 - 29 minutesHaving led innovative interdisciplinary clinics focused on treating pain and preserving wellness for more than 40 years, Dr. Angela Mailis believes interprofessional collaboration is the best way to deliver pain management. In this part one episode of a two-part series we chat with Dr. Mailis, a...
Advocacy to Advance the Profession: Part 2
ON Spinal Chat - March 01, 2023 01:04 - 19 minutesIn part two of this series on OCA's advocacy work to advance the chiropractic profession, Caroline Pinto, Managing Principal, of Counsel Public Affairs, returns to outline OCA’s current strategy, objectives, and some of the activities it will undertake to support them. In this episode, we’ll als...
Advocacy to Advance the Profession: Part 1
ON Spinal Chat - December 21, 2022 22:15 - 22 minutesAdvocating for you, our profession, and our patients is a key part of our work. But what does this mean in the context of a member-based organization like the OCA? In this two-part series on advocacy to advance the profession, we’ll define advocacy, outline OCA’s approach, achievements, strategy...
Supporting Mental Health Needs
ON Spinal Chat - September 30, 2022 20:34 - 28 minutesWhile the diagnosis and treatment of mental health conditions is not within a chiropractor’s scope of practice, Dr. Janet D’Arcy believes chiropractors like you can play an important role in identifying someone who may need assistance, helping them access practical resources and making appropria...
Why Rapid Access Clinics Matter to You
ON Spinal Chat - August 03, 2022 01:30 - 27 minutesRapid Access Clinics or.RACs for low back pain are designed to support not replace a chiropractor's care. They provide patients, who qualify for the program with a timely consultation on their low back condition and related symptoms to support their self-management. In this episode, we speak wit...
Collaborating with Primary Care: An NP's Perspective
ON Spinal Chat - June 01, 2022 03:58 - 24 minutesOntario has a few team-based programs for musculoskeletal (MSK) care and a number of you work in interdisciplinary/ interprofessional clinics – but there’s room for more opportunities. In this episode, we speak with Kristy Naulls, an award-winning Nurse Practitioner (NP) about how collaborative ...
Ontarians' Evolving Attitudes on Health Care
ON Spinal Chat - March 31, 2022 02:37 - 23 minutesThe pandemic prompted many changes. So, OCA commissioned an Environics Research survey last fall to learn how it has affected Ontarians’ attitudes, goals and behaviours about their health care, including chiropractic care. In this episode, we speak with Nancy Gale, OCA’s VP, Strategic Communicat...
Lessons Learned to Lead Forward in a Covid-19 World
ON Spinal Chat - March 01, 2022 04:20 - 26 minutesEven though restrictions are lifting, experts predict Covid-19 will be with us for some time. In this episode, we check in with Dr. Erika Kuehnel, an Ontario chiropractor, registered massage therapist and multidisciplinary clinic owner. We discuss lessons learned and how you can lead forward in ...
An Evidence-based Framework for Chiropractic Care
ON Spinal Chat - January 29, 2022 12:00 - 25 minutesIn 2020, the Ontario Chiropractic Association (OCA) formed the Evidence-based Framework Advisory Council with a mandate to help develop a shared understanding or framework around what exactly evidence-based practice means for chiropractic care. In this episode, we check in with Caroline Brereto...
Delivering Optimal Care to Patients with Arthritis
ON Spinal Chat - November 15, 2021 12:00 - 29 minutesThis episode will provide you with practical research and insights on proven approaches to effectively assess, diagnose and treat patients with spinal stenosis and other forms of arthritis. Hear 'world expert in spinal stenosis' Dr. Carlo Ammendolia outline how he delivers optimal treatment to h...
EHC for Virtual Care, a Post-Pandemic World and More
ON Spinal Chat - October 15, 2021 11:00 - 22 minutesIn this second episode of a two-part series on Extended Health Care (EHC), Dr. Moez Rajwani returns to explore the rise of virtual chiropractic care or telehealth and how insurers, as well as patients, are responding. For this segment, he's joined by Dr. Amy Brown who shares her experience with ...
How Extended Health Care Trends Affect Your Practice
ON Spinal Chat - September 15, 2021 11:00 - 24 minutesThis two-part series on Extended Health Care (EHC) will help you keep up with trends and work effectively with insurers across Ontario. In episode one, Dr. Moez Rajwani discusses how EHC is evolving and what that means to chiropractors like you. From cost containment to digital transformation, h...
Building Rapport with a Prescribing Health Care Professional
ON Spinal Chat - July 15, 2021 10:20 - 22 minutesIn the second episode of this two-part series, chiropractor Dr. Albert Scales explains how he contacts and builds rapport with a prescribing health care professional to collaboratively help a patient with an opioid dependency. Tune in to hear how he coordinates care to help their shared patient...
Breaking the Ice on Opioid Dependency
ON Spinal Chat - June 15, 2021 12:41 - 24 minutesIn part one of this two-part series, St. Catharines-based chiropractor and OCA member Dr. Albert Scales discusses his experience engaging patients who are using opioids to treat their neuromusculoskeletal (nMSK) pain. Tune in to hear how he raises the topic with patients and discusses contacting...
ON Spinal Chat Trailer
ON Spinal Chat - May 30, 2021 04:00 - 51 secondsIf you're a member of the Ontario Chiropractic Association, this podcast is for you. But many of the topics we'll discuss with varied guests have a wide-reaching impact and will also likely be of interest to other professionals in Ontario's broader health ecosystem. Listen to this trailer to le...
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