Patient education increases the quality of care at a practice, which creates return business and referrals. Add the following products to your next shopping list.

Chiroglyphix

Forte Holdings, El Dorado Hills, Calif, offers its Chiroglyphix patient education software that uses 3D animation to take your patients on a journey inside the body to explore the effects of their conditions and learn about their tissues, muscles, nerves, organs, and skeletal system. The software can be run on any computer and works well on tablet PCs or with a pen tablet that allows touch screen drawings onto any of the animations. Custom playlists and waiting room movies can be created in minutes.

(800) 456-2622
www.chiroglyphix.com

Visual Odyssey

Visual Odyssey, Temple, Ga, introduces its neuropatholator chart, an interactive, lighted nerve chart that may be used to educate patients about the brain and the nerves, and how they coordinate all body functions. Visual Odyssey also offers software that provides a multilingual library of 1,000 chiropractic graphics, animations, and videos. A customizable 60-visit program is also available.

(800) 541-4449
www.neuropatholator.com

OPTP

OPTP offers a book, Cervical Spinal Stabilization Exercises by Donald Murphy, DC, and Gary Lerna, DC. The 24-page booklet includes exercises that allow clinicians to make a customized home-exercise program for their patients. The book also provides a section for notes, instructions, and photographs. The exercises may be performed standing, seated, or quadruped. Specific exercises include hanging head, neck ball, cervical bracing, chin tucks, and active-assisted range of motion. The occipital float and small ball featured in the booklet are sold separately. OPTP also offers Murphy's Lumbar Spinal Stabilization Floor Exercises booklet.

(800) 367-7393
www.optp.com

Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research

The Foundation for Chiropractic Education and Research, Norwalk, Iowa, offers its patient pamphlets, Translating Research Into Practice. The four-color pamphlets reinforce chiropractic principles and provide accurate, research-backed information. The pamphlets may be personalized. Titles include: Back Pain, Whiplash, Headaches, Neck Pain, Beyond Antibiotics, Fibromyalgia, Chiropractic and Kids, Childhood Ear Infections, and Chiropractic Evidence Subluxation: What It Means To You.

(800) 622-6309
www.fcer.org

Argosy Publishing

Argosy Publishing, Newton, Mass, offers Visible Body™ (www.visiblebody.com), a Web-based 3D interactive model of the human body that demonstrates how the body works. Visible Body allows users to visualize the body and explore areas of interest to see how more than 1,700 anatomical structures—including major organs and systems—work together. Visible Body also allows users to better understand interdependencies among different body parts by adding or removing adjacent structures and isolating specific structures of the body; share a perspective with colleagues, students, or patients; explain an injury; and examine the location and detail of a specific body part or organ in a 360° view, zoom in and out of it, and move through it with a few mouse clicks. Visible Body can be downloaded using Internet Explorer with Macromedia Flash™ and Anark Client™ plug-ins.

(617) 527-9999
www.argosypublishing.com

Foot Levelers

Foot Levelers, Roanoke, Va, introduces The Better Body Library™, literature to educate your patients about the benefits of chiropractic care. The Better Body Library contains easy-to-read brochures, such as Low Back Pain, Spinal Pelvic Stabilizers, and Taking Care of Kids' Health, that are available free of charge. Each brochure provides answers to common health questions, explains how chiropractic can help, offers a patient self-test, and introduces Foot Levelers' products as an adjunct to chiropractic care.

(800) 553-4860
www.footlevelers.com

Chiro-Manis Inc

Chiro-Manis introduces the Cervical Spine Diagnosis patient-education poster, a tool that makes a practice's report of findings more effective. The poster is designed by James Cox, DC, DACBR, and illustrates cervical spine conditions and their effects on patient health. The poster is 2 feet x 3 feet and is laminated with eyelets for easy hanging.

(800) 441-5571
www.coxtechnic.com

Kathleen Porter

Kathleen Porter, movement educator and author, introduces her book, Ageless Spine, Lasting Health: The Open Secret to Pain-Free Living and Comfortable Aging. In her book, Porter offers information on back pain relief and presents ways to alleviate the pain and tension by focusing on treating the symptoms rather than addressing the source of the problem. The book examines the architecture of the human body and how cultural influences have led millions of Americans astray from their natural alignment. Porter redefines true fitness and graceful aging, showing readers how to sit, stand, bend, walk, lift, and reach in the most natural ways.

www.agelessspine.com

Eric Berg, DC

Eric Berg, DC, introduces The 7 Principles of Fat Burning, a book that teaches how fat-burning hormones from food and exercise influence body types. The book contains exercises and diets that will help individuals with ovary problems, thyroid conditions, and a malfunctioning liver lose weight the healthy way. Berg also details food plans that address different body types and explains how balancing certain types of foods gets the body to heal itself.

(703) 256-6300
www.BodyRt.com

Chiropractic America

Chiropractic America, Washington Crossing, Pa, introduces its Web site, www.YourSpine.com, which provides information about spinal health, including resources to help make it easy for patients to find a qualified chiropractor. YourSpine.com also includes information about alternatives to surgery and medication, and educates patients about healthy lifestyle choices.

(215) 310-1735
www.chirousa.com