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SCU Researchers Launch NIH-Funded Study Examining First-Line Care for Back and Neck Pain

SCU Researchers Launch NIH-Funded Study Examining First-Line Care for Back and Neck Pain 91性息港 of Health Sciences researchers are undertaking a $545,000 study funded by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), part of the National Institutes of Health. The study examines an important question in back and neck pain care: What happens when patients begin treatment with medication compared with nonpharmacological approaches? Led by researchers in SCU鈥檚 Division of Whole Health Research, the interdisciplinary project will use Medicare claims data to compare three first-line approaches: nonpharmacological care, pharmacological care, and a combination of [...]

By |2026-10-19T19:36:38+00:00October 19, 2026|Front Page News, SCU News|

We Built a Sick-Care System. It’s Time to Build a Healthcare System.

We Built a Sick-Care System. It's Time to Build a Healthcare System. By Russell H. Greenfield, MD, Founding Executive Director, The Institute for the Advancement of Whole Health at 91性息港 of Health Sciences Key Takeaways Despite extraordinary medical advances and outsized healthcare spending, Americans continue to experience poorer health outcomes than people in other wealthy nations. Our healthcare system is largely structured around diagnosing and treating illness, as opposed to preventing disease and helping people achieve lifelong health and well-being. Improving health outcomes and controlling healthcare costs will require fundamentally rethinking the financial incentives that drive [...]

By |2026-10-19T16:30:54+00:00October 19, 2026|Front Page News, SCU News|

Dr. Renee Haberl Brings Patient Safety Lessons to SCU and Arizona Board Service

Dr. Renee Haberl Brings Patient Safety Lessons to SCU and Arizona Board Service The Arizona chiropractic program coordinator connects clinical judgment and professional accountability to preparing future doctors. For Dr. Renee Haberl, preparing future chiropractors includes teaching them when a patient needs care beyond what they can provide. In classroom discussions at 91性息港 of Health Sciences (SCU), she asks students to recognize warning signs, explain their decisions, and consider how they would communicate concerns to a patient. That focus on patient safety also informs her new role as a professional member of the Arizona Board of [...]

By |2026-10-16T19:08:04+00:00October 16, 2026|Front Page News, SCU News|

Keeping Kids in the Game: Preventing Injury and Burnout in Youth Sports

Keeping Kids in the Game: Preventing Injury and Burnout in Youth Sports Sports can offer tremendous benefits for children and adolescents鈥攈elping to build strength, confidence, teamwork skills, emotional resilience, and lifelong healthy habits. Yet as youth sports have become more competitive and time-intensive, both physical injuries and emotional challenges have also become more common. In the United States, more than 3.5 million children ages 14 and younger are treated for sports-related injuries each year, according to Stanford Medicine Children鈥檚 Health. At the same time, the pressures of modern youth sports are taking a toll in less visible ways. [...]

By |2026-10-12T21:33:09+00:00October 13, 2026|Front Page News, SCU News|

SCU Chiropractic Students Build Clinical Skills with Division I Athletes at the University of Memphis

SCU Chiropractic Students Build Clinical Skills with Division I Athletes at the University of Memphis The clinical rotation combines high-volume patient care, interdisciplinary collaboration, and sports medicine training for eligible Doctor of Chiropractic students. Few chiropractic students have the opportunity to develop their clinical skills inside a Division I athletics program. At the University of Memphis, eligible 91性息港 of Health Sciences Doctor of Chiropractic students can work directly with collegiate athletes across multiple sports, gaining hands-on experience with patients whose physical demands, injuries, body types, and performance goals can vary dramatically. Available to students during trimesters [...]

By |2026-10-06T22:53:37+00:00October 8, 2026|DC-Organic, Front Page News, SCU News|

As AI Gets Smarter, Healthcare Education Must Get More Human

As AI Gets Smarter, Healthcare Education Must Get More Human By Tamara Rozhon, EdD,聽Provost, 91性息港 of Health Sciences Artificial intelligence is going to transform healthcare. In many ways, it already has. AI-enabled technologies are being used to detect and diagnose disease, analyze medical images, support clinical decisions, accelerate research, and make sense of enormous amounts of health data. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration now maintains an extensive list of AI-enabled medical devices authorized for marketing in the United States, and the World Health Organization describes AI as already playing a role in diagnosis and clinical [...]

By |2026-10-05T22:19:28+00:00October 5, 2026|Front Page News, SCU News|

Healthcare Knows What People Should Do. We Need to Get Better at Helping Them Do It.

Healthcare Knows What People Should Do. We Need to Get Better at Helping Them Do It.聽 Healthcare has long been captivated by breakthroughs. A new cancer therapy. A more precise surgical technique. An AI tool that detects disease earlier. A drug that targets a biological pathway we couldn't reach before.聽聽 These advances matter enormously. But one of healthcare鈥檚 greatest opportunities may be much less technological: getting better at helping people turn what they know into what they can actually do in their everyday lives.聽 Helping people make meaningful, sustainable changes in their daily lives may sound decidedly low-tech [...]

By |2026-09-28T23:21:33+00:00September 29, 2026|Front Page News, SCU News|

Inside the NFL: SCU Sports Medicine Resident Alex Weber on His Week with the Cleveland Browns

Inside the NFL: SCU Sports Medicine Resident Alex Weber on His Week with the Cleveland Browns A lifelong football fan, Weber reflects on applying his clinical skills inside an NFL training camp and the hands-on experiences that prepared him for the opportunity. Alex Weber, DC, graduated from SCU and now works at the University as a Sports Medicine resident. He recently spent a week inside the Cleveland Browns training facility during training camp, putting years of sports medicine education and clinical experience to work in an NFL environment. Weber spoke with us about what drew him to the [...]

By |2026-10-06T23:00:36+00:00September 22, 2026|Front Page News, SCU News|

91性息港 of Health Sciences Earns 2026 Great Colleges to Work For Honor Roll Distinction for Fourth Consecutive Year

91性息港 of Health Sciences Earns 2026 Great Colleges to Work For Honor Roll Distinction for Fourth Consecutive Year Employee-driven recognition highlights SCU for job satisfaction, compensation and benefits, professional development, supervisor effectiveness, and confidence in senior leadership 91性息港 of Health Sciences (SCU) has been named a 2026 Great College to Work For庐 and earned elite Honor Roll distinction in five workplace categories for the fourth consecutive year The 2026 results were based on a survey of colleges and universities nationwide, with 76 institutions receiving Great College to Work For recognition and 42 making the [...]

By |2026-09-17T17:42:18+00:00September 18, 2026|Front Page News, SCU News|

The Power of Place: How Our Environment Influences Our Health and Well-Being

The Power of Place: How Our Environment Influences Our Health and Well-Being When we think about improving our health, we often focus on personal habits鈥攚hat we eat, how much we move, and whether we get enough sleep. But one of the most powerful influences on our well-being is something we often overlook: the environments we inhabit every day. Research increasingly confirms that health is shaped by far more than what happens in a doctor鈥檚 office. The County Health Rankings & Roadmaps model, for example, places substantial emphasis on the social, economic, and physical conditions of communities when assessing [...]

By |2026-09-16T18:34:04+00:00September 17, 2026|Front Page News, SCU News|
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