About Dr. Mark Mulak DC, MBA, MS, DACBSP®, DACRB, DAIPM, RMSK®, ICSC

DACRB — Diplomate, American Chiropractic Rehabilitation Board

 

The DACRB is a post-doctoral board diplomate requiring written and practical examinations after completing advanced clinical training in rehabilitation science, functional assessment, and outcomes measurement. It is one of the most demanding credentials in the chiropractic profession and reflects a clinical commitment that extends well beyond pain management. Dr. Mulak is the only chiropractor in Rhode Island who holds it. At Cityside, rehabilitation is not a supplemental service — it is the clinical framework. Treatment plans are built around measured deficits, functional milestones, and documented recovery arcs from the first visit through maximum medical improvement.

 

Rhode Island License in Chiropractic Medicine and Physiotherapy

 

Dr. Mulak holds dual Rhode Island licensure in both Chiropractic Medicine and Physiotherapy. This means both chiropractic treatment and physiotherapy-based rehabilitation are delivered within the same clinical setting, under one provider, with integrated documentation. Patients do not need a separate physiotherapy referral to receive physiotherapy-based rehabilitation care. The clinical record remains unified, the causation documentation remains intact, and the rehabilitation arc is documented by a single credentialed provider from beginning to end.

 

DACBSP — Diplomate, American Chiropractic Board of Sports Physicians

 

The DACBSP is a post-doctoral board diplomate and the highest credential level in sports chiropractic. It reflects advanced training in biomechanics, musculoskeletal injury evaluation, functional movement assessment, and return-to-activity planning. Dr. Mulak is one of only two chiropractors in Rhode Island with this credential. In motor vehicle accident cases, this training applies directly to functional impairment documentation, biomechanical injury pattern analysis, and the return-to-function trajectory that attorneys need in demand packages and at trial.

 

RMSK — Registered in Musculoskeletal Sonography

 

The RMSK is a multidisciplinary sonography credential held across radiology, orthopedics, rheumatology, sports medicine, and physical medicine. Dr. Mulak is the only chiropractor in Rhode Island who holds it. Musculoskeletal diagnostic ultrasound is performed in-office on the day of examination by a credentialed sonographer — no referral, no scheduling delay, no separate report from a separate facility. Soft tissue findings are documented at the tissue level on day one of care.

 

DAIPM — Diplomate, Academy of Integrative Pain Management

 

The DAIPM is a post-doctoral diplomate in integrative pain management reflecting advanced training in pain science, multimodal pain treatment, and the biopsychosocial model of pain. In PI and MVA cases involving chronic or complex pain presentations — cases where pain has not resolved and the question is whether it is medically supported — a DAIPM-credentialed provider offers a documented clinical pain management framework that most treating chiropractors cannot provide.

 

ICSC — International Certificate in Sports Chiropractic

 

The ICSC is an internationally recognized credential in sports chiropractic reflecting advanced clinical training in sports injury evaluation, musculoskeletal assessment, and functional rehabilitation. When combined with the DACBSP and CSCS, it establishes a sports medicine clinical framework directly applicable to MVA patients with functional impairment, kinetic chain injuries, and return-to-activity needs.

 

CCEP — Certified Chiropractic Extremity Practitioner

 

The CCEP reflects advanced training in the evaluation and treatment of extremity complaints — shoulder, knee, hip, wrist, ankle. In MVA cases, extremity injuries frequently accompany spinal injury as part of the same trauma event. The CCEP means extremity injuries are evaluated and documented within the same clinical framework as spinal findings, without requiring a separate referral. The causation record stays integrated across the full injury picture.

 

CSCS — Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist

 

The CSCS is a credential held primarily by physical therapists, athletic trainers, and performance coaches. At the chiropractic level, it signals that functional restoration, neuromuscular re-education, and return-to-activity programming are within the clinical scope of this practice. The rehabilitation arc from acute injury through functional restoration is documented and delivered here by a single credentialed provider, without a handoff to a separate discipline.

 

ImPACT Certified Provider

 

ImPACT (Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing) is the most widely used standardized concussion assessment protocol in the United States, used by professional sports organizations, military medical systems, and hospital-based concussion programs. Dr. Mulak is a certified ImPACT provider. The same protocol used in neurology and sports medicine concussion programs is used at Cityside — with the same standardized baselines, normative comparisons, and recovery-tracking methodology. Post-concussion trajectories in MVA cases are documented in a language that neurologists, defense IME physicians, and insurance adjusters recognize.

 

CPPS, CPHQ, Johns Hopkins Patient Safety Certificate, IHI Basic Certificate in Quality and Safety

 

Dr. Mulak also holds institutional-grade quality and patient safety credentials that bring hospital-level documentation and safety standards into private practice care. These include CPPS (Certified Professional in Patient Safety), CPHQ (Certified Professional in Healthcare Quality), the Johns Hopkins Patient Safety Certificate Program, and the IHI Basic Certificate in Quality and Safety — credentials more often held by hospital and health-system leaders than by treating chiropractors.

 

Graduate Certificate in Healthcare Compliance — Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law

 

Healthcare compliance credentials are typically held by attorneys, hospital compliance officers, and healthcare executives. A compliance certificate from a law school reflects that clinical documentation at Cityside is built with regulatory, legal, and evidentiary standards in mind from the first visit forward — not constructed for clinical purposes and later adapted for litigation use.

 

MBA, Healthcare Management and MS, Management and Leadership

 

The MBA in Healthcare Management and MS in Management and Leadership reflect that this practice operates as a managed clinical enterprise: systemized intake protocols, documented reporting timelines, defined clinical pathways, and institutional capacity. For attorneys managing a case pipeline, a practice operating at this level offers the predictability and reliability of an organization rather than a solo practitioner.

 

ABIME Continuing Medical Education

 

The American Board of Independent Medical Examiners establishes the standard framework for independent medical examination — the same standard used by defense physicians who review and challenge plaintiff medical records. ABIME CME reflects ongoing engagement with that framework. A treating chiropractor with ABIME CME understands how defense evaluators assess clinical documentation, which shapes how records are constructed from intake forward.

 

Delphi Panelist — JMPT, JACM, and JICM

 

Selected for four separate national expert panels of between 37 and 62 practitioners, faculty, and researchers to contribute to peer-reviewed clinical practice guideline development published in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics (JMPT), the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (JACM), and the Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine; guidelines address low back pain, neck pain, chronic musculoskeletal pain, and cervicogenic and tension-type headache management.

 

Expert Witness Qualified — Deposed Without Adverse Outcome

 

Expert Witness Qualified through the Cleveland University Academy of Chiropractic, with additional training in Forensic Documentation and Accident Reconstruction, means the clinical record at Cityside is built with testimony in mind from the first visit. Deposed without adverse outcome means it has been tested in adversarial legal proceedings and held. These are not credentials that exist only on paper.

 

Published

The Objective Injury Model:

 

A Plaintiff Attorney’s Guide to Objective Documentation in Motor Vehicle Injury Cases — Cityside Press, 2026 (ISBN 979-8-9955795-0-2).

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Written specifically for plaintiff attorneys, the book provides a framework for evaluating objective injury documentation in motor vehicle accident cases, including the clinical standards that make a record more defensible under cross-examination.

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Available on Amazon.

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