2025 ICS Chicagoland Fall Convention (In-Person)

Chronic diseases, or noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), are long-lasting conditions caused by genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors. Many are preventable or even reversible with the right interventions.

Dr. Mullican will explore the five most common NCDs—heart disease, cancer, stroke, arthritis, and diabetes—and how they impact chiropractic outcomes. We’ll examine root causes and evidence-based strategies for prevention and management.

A strong connection has emerged between prediabetes and cardiovascular disease. Even before diabetes fully develops, patients can show signs of heart damage.

Every few seconds, someone is diagnosed with diabetes. Over 37 million U.S. adults have diabetes, and 96 million more have prediabetes—more than 1 in 3 Americans. Unlike many conditions, type 2 diabetes is often preventable.

This session will offer practical tools for lifestyle-based interventions and guidance on how to educate and engage patients in preventing and managing disease. 

Sponsored by Invisa-RED

Dr. Carberry, a former business professional turned chiropractor after a personal injury, brings a unique and practical perspective to patient care. Together with his wife, Coleen Carberry, a physical therapist specializing in traumatic brain injury, they provide a powerful clinical viewpoint on how chiropractic treatment affects the nervous system.

This course explores the neurological impact of physical medicine care plans involving spinal and extremity complaints. Attendees will learn how the nervous system responds to chiropractic adjustments and rehabilitative care, and how these treatments contribute to patient recovery. Dr. Carberry will also introduce the foundational principles of neuroplasticity and explain how spinal manipulation influences common patterns such as upper and lower cross syndrome.

Using current professional data and real-world case studies, this presentation equips chiropractors with the knowledge to better understand the physiological effects of their care and ultimately improve patient outcomes and engagement.

Sponsored by American Medical Integration (AMI).

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This lecture provides a comprehensive overview of the clinical indications and contraindications for chiropractic care. Participants will explore evidence-based guidelines for patient selection, risk assessment, and safety protocols. Emphasis will be placed on red flags, differential diagnosis, and conditions requiring referral or co-management. The session aims to enhance clinical decision-making, ensure ethical practice, and promote optimal patient outcomes through appropriate case management and informed consent.

Sponsored by NCMIC

Topics around sex start from birth through old age and are sometimes difficult and uncomfortable to discuss; this lends itself to accidental error and moral and ethical boundaries being inadvertently crossed. We desire to take the stigma out of the challenge of talking about sex. This lecture is designed to open your mind, help you communicate better, and understand the clinical importance of addressing with your patients the surrounding topics under the vast umbrella of “sex.” Knowing how to broach this subject ethically & appropriately is essential, always. This lecture will talk about orientation, abuse, pleasure, fertility, growth, side effects, as well as sexual practices that are extremely healthy in our relationships and what impact this has on the body. As a general practitioner, these subjects affect your entire patient population, and navigating them correctly can keep you in compliance and help your patients. Allow us to empower you so we as a profession can continue to support, guide, and communicate with our patients about sometimes challenging, complex, and even funny situations.

Sponsored by ChiroHealthUSA.

This lecture provides a comprehensive overview of the clinical indications and contraindications for chiropractic care. Participants will explore evidence-based guidelines for patient selection, risk assessment, and safety protocols. Emphasis will be placed on red flags, differential diagnosis, and conditions requiring referral or co-management. The session aims to enhance clinical decision-making, ensure ethical practice, and promote optimal patient outcomes through appropriate case management and informed consent.

Sponsored by NCMIC

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Sponsored by Infinedi

This lecture examines the chiropractic standard of care within clinical, ethical, and legal frameworks. Attendees will review current best practices, professional guidelines, and case law that define chiropractors' duties and responsibilities in patient management. Topics include documentation, informed consent, diagnostic accuracy, and referral criteria.

Sponosored by NCMIC.

We will cover the relationship of infection (viral, bacterial, parasitic, and fungal), chronic disease, stress and the changes that occur within the HPA axis. She will explore the connection of different types of stress: physical as well as emotional that will decrease one’s resistance to infection. The role of neurotransmitters affecting immune cells will affect the HPA axis. In addition, cortisol imbalances and inflammation can relate to chronic infection. Research around chronic infection and the HPA axis will be presented. Treatment protocols to tackle even difficult cases of these types of conditions will be shared. Case studies on patients seen in practice will demonstrate the success in treating individuals with chronic HPA dysfunction, both with infection or at the risk of infection.

Sponsored by Protocol for Life Balance.

Dr. James Demetrious will review current research related to Cervical Artery Dissection. He will discuss the epidemiology, the dissection event, pre-existing acquired and heritable risk factors, supportive research, symptoms, and signs that may predict the developing stroke.

Sponsored by NCMIC.