Chiropractic Assistant
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Certified Chiropractic Assistant- CAA
A certified chiropractic assistant helps chiropractors in patient care, clinic setup and operation. Their primary duties include managing patients, answering the phone, medical billing, and looking out for finances. If you are a person who can form a positive relationship with the patients, you are already a potential candidate for a chiropractor’s office job. If you want to pursue this career path, review the information below.
Chiropractic Assistant’s Role in the Clinic
Chiropractic assistants assist chiropractic practitioners in running the clinic. Most chiropractic assistants help their chiropractors by managing patients and the office.
Their responsibilities include:
- Greeting the patients upon arrival.
- Ensuring that the waiting area is comfortable, clinic maintenance.
- Attending phone calls and responding to emails.
- Scheduling appointments.
- Recording personal and medical history of patients.
- Verify patients’ health insurance and billing methods.
- Monitor the equipment and supplies.
- Keep the examination room clean and conduct necessary preparation before appointments.
- Assisting in screening assessments like taking the patient’s blood pressure, weight, or x-rays.
- Basics of X-ray patient management and radiation protection.
- Understanding chiropractic principles.
- Have an introductory knowledge of human anatomy.
- Patient charting and record keeping.
- Understanding medical terminology.
- Management of patient conditions.
- Have the basic knowledge of equipment used in a chiropractic clinic such as Ultrasound, HV and LV EMS, IFC, Traction, Decompression, Massage, Superficial Heat, Cryotherapy, Light Therapy, Therapeutic Exercise.
- Emergency procedures CPR and professional standards.
- Ethics, boundary training and insurance.
Skills
Additionally, a chiropractic assistant is a healthcare employee who supports a licensed chiropractor by performing administrative and clinical duties. Chiropractic assistants work under supervision to help ensure their office cares for patients’ neuromusculoskeletal systems. Chiropractic assistants must have good communication skills and an understanding of computer programs, filing methods, and medical paperwork. They need to be team players to achieve common organizational goals and make an effective impression to ensure a good client base. While a chiropractic assistant’s duties may vary depending on the needs of their offices, they often have the following responsibilities:
- Bill patients
- Answer phone calls
- Respond to emails
- Schedule appointments
- Register patients
- Order supplies
- Sort mail
- Maintain calendars
- Update medical records
- Work with insurance companies
- Educate patients about treatment methods
- Sanitize work surfaces
- Taking vital signs
Medium of Delivery ( Online + Clinical Internship):
While most of the theoretical topics are covered online, some clinical supervisions are required at their employment place. This means that their practicum shall follow at their workplace (if they’re employed.) If the applicant is not employed, the practicum will be referred to a clinic near his/ her residence.
A chiropractic assistant certification verifies a person’s ability to support a chiropractor by performing administrative and clinical duties. The most common industry certification is the Certified Chiropractic Clinical Assistant (CCCA) through the Federation of Chiropractic Licensing Boards (FCLB). Like other professional certifications, the CCCA requires candidates to meet eligibility requirements, gain work experience, pass a test and pursue continuing education.
The theory program will take Two to Three years to complete, along with one month of supervised clinical assignments, generally managed by a licensed Chiropractor.
Once completed, the National Board Exam certifies candidates as Certified Chiropractic Assistants in Canada & the USA. In some states (the USA,) additional examinations might be required.
Admissions
Prerequisites:
High School Diploma plus Two Years of College Studies.
IELTS General 6.5 (For non-English Speakers)
State or Provincial Background Check
Passing a Virtual Interview.
Background/ Education in Healthcare or a related Science.
Technical/ Computer Knowledge (Microsoft Office/ Online Education)
. Some states require certification through completion of an examination under the state’s Chiropractic Examiners Board.
Tuition and Registration Cost (Effective January 04, 2024)
Total Cost is $3,700 (Includes Tuition Cost $2,400 – Registration $300 – Practicum $1000)
PDF Books and Material are included. Computer and Study Supplies are not included.
Costs of our programs may slightly change with each new session. For that reason, we will be very happy to discuss our updated program costs with you personally. Please email us or give us a call anytime. Just tell your representative that you have visited our website and would like information about your desired program.
Courses
Upon completion, the student will be able to:
- Identify ethical issues with professional rights, responsibilities, duties, and standards of conduct by exploring legal statutes about chiropractors from various states.
- Define Doctor Conduct, Professional Conduct, Patient Conduct and Unprofessional Conduct.
- Recognize unprofessional conduct, improper billing, harassment, violence, drug or alcohol use and potential conflicts of interest.
- Identify ethical issues dealing with professional rights and responsibilities.
- Understand the legal ramifications of Patient Privacy.
- Discuss Chiropractic’s History and Education.
- Discuss principles of chiropractic and philosophy.
- Explain the Components of the Vertebral Subluxation Complex.
- Identify anatomical structures and describe body system functions.
- Discuss Spinal Pain Syndromes, Myotomes, Dermatomes and Psychosomatic Disorders.
- Develop Communication Skills utilizing techniques that address healthcare Boundaries, Active Listening, Body Language and Matching and Mirroring.
- Understand the importance of a patient’s informed consent and the need to acquire a signed patient’s informed consent before treatment.
- Identify the critical components of a Patient History and perform a patient history.
- Broaden Understanding of Special Circumstances that Require Additional History Taking Skills Such As-Motor Vehicle Accidents or Work Injuries
- Discuss and describe Various Radiographic Studies and Diagnostic Procedures to a patient.
- Learn how to develop an X-Ray.
- Perform and document measurements for both Passive and Active Cervical and Lumbar R.O.M. using a goniometer.
- Recognize equipment used to perform examinations.
- Perform Vitals (height, weight, temperature, blood pressure, pulse and respiration) using professional boundaries, patient privacy, and safe and hygienic procedures.
- Identify normal findings as well as variant and abnormal vital sign findings. Recognize patient apprehension.
- Differentiate between commonly treated conditions.
- Identify the flags of care, recognize conditions that are contraindicated or require special precautions for chiropractic treatment, and the importance of notifying the doctor.
- Recognize conditions that are contraindicated or require particular precautions for chiropractic treatment.
- Utilize medical terminology, prefixes, and suffixes.
- Understand the Purpose of Notes.
- Identify the components of a note (S.O.A.P.) for charting.
- Properly document in a patient’s chart using techniques for Medical Documentation and standard abbreviations.
- Identify pertinent information necessary to Acquire from the Patient.
- Set up a Medical File.
- Understand the legal responsibilities of maintaining patient records, including storage, security, and release, and develop protocols for requesting or releasing records.
- Manage Patient flow.
- Answer the phone and schedule a New Patient and an existing patient.
- Understand and utilize billing terminology and coding when communicating with patients, healthcare professionals, and insurance companies.
- Perform insurance verifications.
- Complete a billing form.
- Write an appeal letter to an insurance company.
- Recognize life-threatening emergencies and the C.C.T.A.’s responsibilities. 38. Develop skills necessary to provide emergency care procedures in First Aid and C.P.R. Discuss the importance of calm communication with the Patient and collaboration with other staff members and health care professionals.
- Learn how to document procedures and understand the legal implications associated with providing emergency care.
- Define and understand Physiotherapy & the Scope of Physical Therapeutics.
- Discuss the Physiology of Healing & Repair
- Use safety standards to protect themselves and patients regarding maintenance of clinic and equipment, patient modesty, gowning, and draping.
- Position patients on the table supine, prone and on their side.
- Identify physiotherapy tools, instrumentation, and various modalities.
- Assist with patient education and home health care devices, application and monitoring of home care or referral compliance.
- Identify indications and contraindications for each type of therapy.
- Document therapy properly.
- Perform safely the following modalities/therapy:
- Ultrasound (surface and underwater)
- Electric Muscle Stimulation (Low Volt, High Volt, Interferential Current)
- Therma (Heat) Modalities (Hot Packs, Paraffin)
- Cryotherapy (Contrast Bath, Ice Pack, Ice Massage)
- Manual Therapy, Myofascial Release and Trigger Point Therapy
- Traction and Decompression
- Cold Laser
- Therapeutic Exercises include stretches and strengthening exercises for the cervical, thoracic and lumbar regions of the spine.
- Rehabilitation techniques. Understand The Concepts of Postural Conditions. Explore phasic and postural muscles. Learn how to perform and instruct patients on ball exercises that address specific postural conditions.
- Neuromuscular reeducation- Learn how to perform post-isometric relaxation stretching and instruct patients on balance board exercises.
Curriculum
Certified Chiropractic Assistant- CCA Program includes chiropractic principles, human anatomy, history taking, patient charting and record keeping, medical terminology, management of patient conditions, physiotherapy (Ultrasound, HV and LV EMS, IFC, Traction, Decompression, Massage, Superficial Heat, Cryotherapy, Light Therapy, Therapeutic Exercise), clinic maintenance, emergency procedures CPR, professional standards, ethics, conduct, boundary training and insurance. Applicant will also learn basics of X-Ray patient management and radiation protection.
The Curriculum includes the following:
- CHIROPRACTIC PRINICPLES
- MANAGEMENT OF COMMON DISEASE
- HISTORY TAKING
- RECORD KEEPING
- PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS
- INSURANCE
- EMERGENCY PROCEDURES
- PHYSIOTHERAPY
- Chiropractic terminology
- Human musculoskeletal and nervous systems
- Spinal anatomy
- Common chiropractic conditions
- Treatment and physiotherapy methods
- Application of diathermy, heat, electrotherapy, traction and cryotherapy
- Record maintenance
- Patient histories and vital signs
- Subjective, objective, assessment, and plan (SOAP) notes
- Adherence to biohazard procedures
- Ethical practices
- Insurance procedures and regulations
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance
- Worker’s compensation claims and personal injury claims.
- X-ray procedures
Careers
According to the latest data, chiropractic assistant professionals can expect a growth rate of around 19% from 2019-2029. Due to increasing awareness of treatments for neuromuscular disorders, these chiropractic assistants will have high demand. Chiropractic assistants are employed in private practices, clinics, and healthcare facilities.