This past June of 2009 in Boston marked the 3^rd Annual Partners Health Care & Channel 56 Health & Fitness Exposition for which the Massachusetts Chiropractic Society was a participant and sponsor.  As coordinator for the MCS, I have been making sure that the MCS participates every year in this event.  In addition to participating, we have also had the privilege of having presentations for the past two years.  Last year's presentations were focused on basic understandings of chiropractic health care, and this year we decided to pursue chiropractic management of symptomatic presentations relating to immune system problems such as asthma and the neurobehavioral disorder ADD/ADHD.  We chose those two topics for a couple of reasons. One is that we are trying to stem a grass roots public health educational effort to diffuse the public’s perception on chiropractic health care.  On keeping our message on vertebral subluxation detection and correction, which is consistent with the state law here in Massachusetts, we can expand the public’s knowledge about chiropractors and broaden understanding beyond just neck and back pain.  Second was the fact that many children concomitantly suffer with these medical problems, so we attempted to educate the public on the safety and efficacy of our conservative care and to let the public know that they have another health care option rather than just medication.  Third was to emphasize the excellent results that chiropractic health care provides and how our care is severely underutilized which could be viewed as a public health problem to increase our services around the country so that more effective health care policies could be implemented within our health care system.  For more information, comments or suggestions, feel free to contact Dr. Scott Darragh from the MCS at sd1771@yahoo.com