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Los Angeles College of Chiropractic uses Force Sensing Table Technology to improve clinician training and assessment, along with treatment for patients

Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCU) recognizes that innovation plays a very important role in advancing healthcare education and healthcare professions. The University's vision is to transform and redefine health and healthcare education. As such, the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (LACC) is using innovation to transform clinician training. Innovation that addresses immediate needs, and offers instant solutions for improvement. SCU faculty and clinical practitioners worked together in 2021 to evaluate new resources to help enhance student training, expedite assessment of manual therapy skills, and improve treatment for patients. The innovative enhancement they added to LACC that year was [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:46+00:00August 7, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News|
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SCU Health announces July 2023 date for free Community Outreach Clinic

WHITTIER, CA (July 19, 2023) — SCU Health is proud to announce a free Chiropractic Care event open to all Southern Californians on Saturday, July 22 from 14 p.m. Our monthly SCU Health Community Outreach Clinic is part of a continuing effort to serve the community with integrative, whole person healthcare services, increase the awareness of whole person healthcare benefits, and provide students with clinical experience and patient treatment. The following healthcare services will be offered at our July 2023 Community Outreach Clinic: Chiropractic consultation and treatment. Treatment is based on the consultation and varies, based on the needs [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:34+00:00July 19, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News, MSPA-Organic|
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SCU students treat cyclists riding 545 miles for AIDS/Lifecycle 2023 fundraiser

SCU students provide treatments to cyclists riding 545 miles for AIDS/Lifecycle 2023 fundraiser From June 4-10, over 2,000 cyclists and volunteer "roadies” embarked on a 545-mile journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles to raise money to fight to end HIV and AIDS. AIDS/Lifecycle is the world's largest annual HIV and AIDS fundraiser and has been proudly supported by SCU since 1996, providing healthcare to the cyclists from start to finish. Since its inception in 1994, AIDS/Lifecycle participants have raised more than $300 million to support the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the HIV-related services of the Los Angeles [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:27+00:00June 27, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News|
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SCU Health announces June 2023 date for free Community Outreach Clinic

WHITTIER, CA - (June 12, 2023) — SCU Health is proud to announce a free Chiropractic Care event open to all Southern Californians on Saturday, June 17 from 14 p.m. Our monthly SCU Health Community Outreach Clinic is part of a continuing effort to serve the community with integrative, whole person healthcare services, increase the awareness of whole person healthcare benefits, and provide students with clinical experience and patient treatment. The following healthcare services will be offered at our June 2023 Community Outreach Clinic: Chiropractic consultation and treatment. Treatment is based on the consultation and varies, based on the [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:21+00:00June 12, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News, MSPA-Organic|
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SCU Health announces free Tent Event community outreach clinic

WHITTIER, CA. - (March 13, 2023) — Southern Californians can receive free Chiropractic Care and have their vitals checked by a physician assistant at an upcoming SCU Health Tent Event community outreach clinic in East Whittier. SCU Health offers free clinics in a continuing effort to serve the community with integrative healthcare services, increase the awareness of integrative healthcare benefits, and provide students with clinical experience and patient treatment. SCU Health's Tent Event will be held on Saturday, March 18, 2023 from 14 p.m. on the campus of Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCU), at the Sports Medicine Clinic [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:17+00:00March 13, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News, MSPA-Organic|
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SCU Honors Black History Month

SCU Honors Black History Month February 2023 February is Black History Month, and SCU joins in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society. According to BlackHistoryMonth.gov, It was 1925 when the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH) first conceived and announced Negro History Week to raise awareness of the contributions of African Americans, to civilization. It wasn't until a year later in February 1926, that the event was first celebrated during the birthday week of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. The response was [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:05:00+00:00February 17, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News, MSPA-Organic|
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SCU Health announces free Chiropractic Care Clinics

WHITTIER, CA. - (Feb. 7, 2023) — Southern Californians can receive free chiropractic care at an upcoming SCU Health Tent Event community outreach clinic in East Whittier. SCU Health offers free clinics in a continuing effort to serve the community with integrative healthcare services, increase the awareness of integrative healthcare benefits, and provide students with patient treatment and clinical experience. SCU Health's Tent Event will be held on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2023 from 14 p.m. on the campus of Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCU), at the Sports Medicine Clinic inside Building T, across from the University Health Center. [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:04:54+00:00February 7, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News|
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In Memoriam: SCU honors the life and legacy of LACC alumnus and longtime Professor, Dr. Keith Wells

In Memoriam: SCU honors the life and legacy of LACC alumnus and longtime Professor, Dr. Keith Wells February 2023 Lifelong chiropractic educator and Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCU) Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (LACC) Class of 1983 alumnus and longtime professor, Dr. Keith Andrew Wells passed away on Jan. 26, 2023 in Syracuse, New York. He was 67 years old. Dr. Wells was passionate about medical diagnoses, details and facts, and teaching ethics and Christian apologetics. He led many Bible studies and was a faculty advisor to the Christian Chiropractic Association. Dr. Wells has thousands of former students [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:04:47+00:00February 7, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News|
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SCU hosts White Coat Ceremony for Doctor of Chiropractic students

Southern California University of Health Sciences hosts White Coat Ceremony for Doctor of Chiropractic students WHITTIER, CA - (Jan. 18, 2023) — Southern California University of Health Sciences (SCU) recognized 45 Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) students today with a white coat ceremony at the SCU campus in Whittier. The ceremony transitions students from the academic portion of the program into supervised clinical practice, symbolizing their entrance into the healthcare field. The White Coat Ceremony is considered a rite of passage for health sciences students and is designed to instill the values of professionalism, humanism and compassionate care with students reciting [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:04:35+00:00January 18, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News|
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What is cervical artery dissection and how common is it, in chiropractic treatments? Ask the Professor, with SCU’s Dr. Jim Whedon

What is cervical artery dissection and how common is it, in chiropractic treatments? Ask the Professor, with SCU's Dr. Jim Whedon  James Whedon DC, MS, Professor & Director of Health Services Research, and colleagues were recently published in BMC Geriatrics, an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of the health and healthcare of older people, including the effects of healthcare systems and policies. Their article, "Association between cervical artery dissection and spinal manipulative therapy a medicare claims analysis,” evaluated the association between cervical spinal manipulation and cervical artery dissection in older Medicare beneficiaries, in the [...]

By |2025-08-22T21:04:33+00:00January 13, 2023|DC-Organic, Front Page News|
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