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  2. Healthcare proxy - Wikipedia

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    Once the healthcare proxy is effective, the agent continues making healthcare decisions as long as the primary individual is legally competent to decide. Moreover, in legal-administrative functions, the healthcare proxy is a legal instrument akin to a "springing" healthcare power of attorney. The proxy must declare the healthcare agent who will ...

  3. Activator technique - Wikipedia

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    The Activator Method Chiropractic Technique is a chiropractic treatment method that uses a device created by Arlan Fuhr as an alternative to manual manipulation of the spine or extremity joints. The device is categorized as a mechanical force manual assisted (MFMA) instrument which is generally regarded as a softer chiropractic treatment ...

  4. Surrogate decision-maker - Wikipedia

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    The following people are denied the ability to act as a health care surrogate: The client's treating health care provider; An employee of the treating health care provider, unless that employee is a relation of the patient; Owner, operator, or administrator of the patient's current health care facility

  5. Chiropractic treatment techniques - Wikipedia

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    In 2003, the National Board of Chiropractic Examiners found that 69.9% of chiropractors used the technique, and 23.9% of patients received it. [24] The majority of U.S. chiropractic schools and some schools in other countries teach the AMCT method, and an estimated 45,000 chiropractors worldwide use AMCT or some part of the technique. [20]

  6. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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    A healthcare proxy document appoints a person, the proxy, who can make decisions on behalf of the granting individual in the event of incapacity. The appointed healthcare proxy has, in essence, the same rights to request or refuse treatment that the individual would have if still capable of making and communicating health care decisions. [29]

  7. Chiropractic - Wikipedia

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    Utilization of chiropractic care is sensitive to the costs incurred by the co-payment by the patient. [1] The use of chiropractic declined from 9.9% of U.S. adults in 1997 to 7.4% in 2002; this was the largest relative decrease among CAM professions, which overall had a stable use rate. [229]

  8. Category:Chiropractic - Wikipedia

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  9. Toftness device - Wikipedia

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    The device had multiple forms, but a common configuration consisted of a plastic cylinder with a series of plastic lenses inside, as well as a clear plastic "detection plate". The operator would rub their finger against the detection plate while the device was held close to an area of the spine, and report the degree of perceived resistance ...