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-March Practice Gem:

Thank you Matt Prados with www.ChiropracticTraffic.com for :

"How do you make more money and convert more patients using the Internet?"


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-Featured Doctor of the Month: Dr. Brian Seymore of Maryland Spine Institute

March Practice Gem:

How do you make more money and convert more patients using the Internet?


“Beyond Website Traffic, Where is the Beef, Conversion Counts” by Matt Prados
Co-Founder www.ChiropracticTraffic.com

Many people talk about driving traffic to your website or having your site ranked
high on Google. I have consulted so many chiropractors that have that yet with their poorly
designed website or virtual brochure they may get 100 people per month to visit
their site but 0 calls!

Every month 3,844,000 people search chiropractic on google in the United States.
With only 50,000 chiropractors in the US that would mean about 80 new patient leads for
each doctor if they were evenly spread out. Are you getting your fair share?
A survey done in 2006 showed that 74% of adults in the US go to the internet
when they want to learn about something or make a new purchase.

Do you get 80 leads per week?

Do you have a virtual brochure?

Look at your website and see if you were a patient in pain looking for help would
your website be enough to get you to call in to your office?

If you think so now look is your phone number even on the front page?

Funny but true.

The chiropractic profession needs to stop looking at their websites as a
chiropractor and start looking as a patient in pain.

Start studying “conversion optimization” this is what is wrong with 99% of all
chiropractic website today.

Because at the end of the day if your site isn’t producing new patients why bother
having it?

Any website design company worth the price of admission should not have any longer
term contract because if you aren’t happy with their service you should be able
to walk away.

May all your traffic convert!

For a FREE e-book on chiropractic web design, social media and internet marketing
visit our website at www.chirotraffic.com.

Matt Prados
(714) 664-5120
www.chiropractictraffic.com

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Please go to www.ChiropracticTraffic.com as they have some great ideas and tools to help you build your practice!

Matt Prados is extremely easy to get a hold of and is very quick to respond to e-mail inquiries.

Everyone can learn more about the web and how it can help potential patients find us.

Featured Doctor:

Dr. Brian Seymore of Maryland Spine Institute.

He is always willing to give advice and is a wealth of knowledge.

He has many valuable research articles on his website that you can use on your website or as patient education including:

1. “The spinal discs are avascular, meaning they don’t have an independent
blood supply. So they cannot heal

on their own, they require compression and
decompression (pumping action found in normal motion of healthy discs)

to allow
oxygen and nutrients into the disc, which promote healing.”View Research

McNally DS, Adams MA. Internal Intervertebral Disc Mechanics as Revealed by Stress Profilometry. Spine 1992; 17:66-73.

2. “Abnormal stresses (e.g. decreased disc height, herniation, etc.) through
the discs prevent exchange of

oxygen and nutrients which causes metabolic
breakdown of the disc. This breakdown leads to further breakdown

of the disc.”View Research

Handa, et al. Effects of hydrostatic pressure on matrix synthesis and
matrix metalloproteinase

production in the human lumbar intervertebral disc.
Spine 1997; 22:1085-91.

3. “Prolonged stresses through the spinal discs inhibit healing of the disc,
and leads to

prolonged degeneration of the disc.”
View Research

Liu et al. Nitric Oxide Mediates the Change of Proteoglycan Synthesis in
the Human Lumbar Intervertebral

Disc in Response to Hydrostatic Pressure.
Spine 2001; 26(2):134-41.

4. “70% to 83% of spinal surgeries are FAILURES… meaning the patient has
the same pain or worse pain afterward.”
View Research

Dvorak, J. Gauchat M., and Valach L. The Outcome of Surgery for Lumbar Disc
Herniation. A 4-7 Years

Follow-up with Emphasis on Somatic Aspects. Spine,
Volume 13., No 12., 1988, 1418-1427.

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Check out the article written: Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey

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This was sent to me today so please read below as it is VERY important about the future healthcare in the U.S....




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Basically, the article says doctors must lose autonomy and

there will be "penalties" if they don't treat patients the way the

government says they should...



http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_mccaughey&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs



please pass it along to any doctors and patients to increase awareness.



Here is the full article



Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan: Betsy McCaughey

Commentary by Betsy McCaughey

Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy.

Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.

Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version).

The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.

But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”

Keeping doctors informed of the newest medical findings is important, but enforcing uniformity goes too far.

New Penalties

Hospitals and doctors that are not “meaningful users” of the new system will face penalties. “Meaningful user” isn’t defined in the bill. That will be left to the HHS secretary, who will be empowered to impose “more stringent measures of meaningful use over time” (511, 518, 540-541)

What penalties will deter your doctor from going beyond the electronically delivered protocols when your condition is atypical or you need an experimental treatment? The vagueness is intentional. In his book, Daschle proposed an appointed body with vast powers to make the “tough” decisions elected politicians won’t make.

The stimulus bill does that, and calls it the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research (190-192). The goal, Daschle’s book explained, is to slow the development and use of new medications and technologies because they are driving up costs. He praises Europeans for being more willing to accept “hopeless diagnoses” and “forgo experimental treatments,” and he chastises Americans for expecting too much from the health-care system.

Elderly Hardest Hit

Daschle says health-care reform “will not be pain free.” Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt.

Medicare now pays for treatments deemed safe and effective. The stimulus bill would change that and apply a cost- effectiveness standard set by the Federal Council (464).

The Federal Council is modeled after a U.K. board discussed in Daschle’s book. This board approves or rejects treatments using a formula that divides the cost of the treatment by the number of years the patient is likely to benefit. Treatments for younger patients are more often approved than treatments for diseases that affect the elderly, such as osteoporosis.

In 2006, a U.K. health board decreed that elderly patients with macular degeneration had to wait until they went blind in one eye before they could get a costly new drug to save the other eye. It took almost three years of public protests before the board reversed its decision.

Hidden Provisions

If the Obama administration’s economic stimulus bill passes the Senate in its current form, seniors in the U.S. will face similar rationing. Defenders of the system say that individuals benefit in younger years and sacrifice later.

The stimulus bill will affect every part of health care, from medical and nursing education, to how patients are treated and how much hospitals get paid. The bill allocates more funding for this bureaucracy than for the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force combined (90-92, 174-177, 181).

Hiding health legislation in a stimulus bill is intentional. Daschle supported the Clinton administration’s health-care overhaul in 1994, and attributed its failure to debate and delay. A year ago, Daschle wrote that the next president should act quickly before critics mount an opposition. “If that means attaching a health-care plan to the federal budget, so be it,” he said. “The issue is too important to be stalled by Senate protocol.”

More Scrutiny Needed

On Friday, President Obama called it “inexcusable and irresponsible” for senators to delay passing the stimulus bill. In truth, this bill needs more scrutiny.

The health-care industry is the largest employer in the U.S. It produces almost 17 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product. Yet the bill treats health care the way European governments do: as a cost problem instead of a growth industry. Imagine limiting growth and innovation in the electronics or auto industry during this downturn. This stimulus is dangerous to your health and the economy.

(Betsy McCaughey is former lieutenant governor of New York and is an adjunct senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. The opinions expressed are her own.)

To contact the writer of this column: Betsy McCaughey at Betsymross@aol.com





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