Cleveland Chiropractic College – Los Angeles
CCCLA was invited to return and participate in the Los Angeles Police Department
Health Fair.
“The Los Angeles Police Department is a very health conscious organization
and appreciates giving their staff every opportunity to maintain peak levels
of fitness,” said John Raithel, D.C., clinician. Several officers were
wearing their 26-pound belts, which gave the interns a clear understanding of
weight distribution in relation to spinal balance.
LAPD Officer Randy Kipnis welcomed senior interns David Chung, Jeff Potts, Will
Untalan and Dr. Raithel in September. The interns assisted Raithel in setting
up the Spinal Analysis Machine (SAM) on the stage in the police auditorium.
The interns had an excellent opportunity to give spinal evaluations to approximately
100 officers and employees.
“It was a pleasure to work with the officers and employees of the LAPD,”
Raithel concluded.
Life University, College
of Chiropractic
Dr. Sid E. Williams, founder and president of Life University, joined a glittering
all-star cast at the recent Trumpet Awards, an event held at the Georgia World
Congress Center in Atlanta to honor African-American achievement in politics,
science and the arts.
Life University was a sponsor of the event, which included the company of media
mogul Ted Turner, civil rights activist Jessie Jackson, TV judge Glenda Hatchett,
attorney Johnnie Cochran, Oscar-winning actor Sidney Poitier and comedic actor
Chris Tucker (pictured below with Dr. Williams).
Dr. Williams also took the stage of the nationally broadcast awards show with
R&B priestess Erykah Badu and actress Dawn Lewis to honor Cicely Tyson.
The award winning actress and humanitarian was honored with the Pinnacle Award.
Dr. Stuart Warner, a 1990 graduate, has been recognized as Life University’s
“Alumnus of the Year.” He manages a Point Pleasant, N.J., practice
in which 70 percent of the patients are children.
Along with his wife, Dr. Theresa Warner, also a Life graduate, he is co-founder
of Kids Day America/International, in which over 1,300 chiropractors have screened
more than 1.5 million children for subluxations. Through the founding of their
company, Future Perfect Inc., they have developed valuable pediatric products,
services and coaching for chiropractors.
Publisher of The ChiroPediatric Times, Dr. Warner has broken new ground in developing
a chiropractic newspaper devoted solely to pediatrics for the profession. He
has established himself as a leader at the forefront of the “chiropediatric”
movement and regularly speaks at over 40 programs a year, including Dynamic
Essentials. In addition, he has been the New Jersey state representative for
the Life Alumni Association for the past 11 years.
Life’s Human Performance Center was recently loaned state-of-the-art RoM
equipment by Zebris, a German company that manufactures motion analysis equipment.
The equipment went to Charles “Skip” Lantz, D.C., Ph.D., out of respect
for his work in RoM assessment the past two years, which has been published
in Spine, JMPT and the European Spine Journal. He has established protocols
for measuring spinal motion based on robotic systems. Research groups in Zurich,
Switzerland; Oxford University; National Health Sciences University; Palmer
College of Chiropractic; and the Rehabilitation Center of Cologne, Germany have
adopted Dr. Lantz’s RoM protocols.
“Our system works with ultrasound waves,” explained Wolfgang Brunner
of Zebris. “It measures three-dimensional movement in space, and it measures
in real time.” The value of real-time measurement is that data is collected
along the entire motion, rather than at a few fixed points.
The research group headed by Dr. Lantz is working to validate the new technology
and integrate RoM and SEMG (spinal electromyography) information to develop
more appropriate applications for the chiropractic profession.
Life Chiropractic College
West
It was “lights, camera, action” at Life Chiropractic College West
in January when the production crew of the television series Scientific American
Frontiers was on hand to tape a segment on chiropractic.
Currently in its 13th year, Scientific American Frontiers is the award-winning
program hosted by actor Alan Alda and produced by the Chedd-Angier Production
Company (headquartered in Boston), in association with Scientific American magazine.
The series is presented nationally on PBS.
The upcoming program is titled “Alternative Medicine” and is scheduled
to begin airing nationally on PBS, June 4, 2002. “This program will include
segments on acupuncture, herbal remedies, touch therapy, and chiropractic,”
reports Chedd-Angier’s Senior Producer David Huntley. “We chose to
shoot the chiropractic segment at Life West because I wanted to include a wide
variety of chiropractic techniques. I was told by a Boston chiropractor that
Life West was known for teaching quite a few adjusting techniques.”
During the day’s taping, the production crew began by interviewing Life
West President Gerard Clum, D.C. about the general scope of chiropractic and
its education requirements. Dr. Clum’s segment was followed with an interview
with the college’s Director of Research Gregory Plaugher, D.C. Dr. Plaugher
reported on Life West’s current chiropractic research studies with head-trauma
cases and pediatric asthma. He also addressed a number of international and
national clinical trials of chiropractic that have been completed or are currently
underway.
LCCW’s Alumni Association has named Matt Green its 2001 Student of the
Year. Green’s award was presented during the college’s annual SPA
Day in October. He was selected Student of the Year because of his solid academic
standing and his numerous contributions to Life West, the college’s community
and the chiropractic profession.
Green carries a 3.5 grade-point-average and has been selected to the Dean’s
List seven of his eight quarters while attending Life West. He also recorded
the highest class score on the written Clinic Entrance Test. Along with his
studies and clinical internship duties, Green has kept busy with a number of
campus activities, including the Point Zero Club, the Delta Sigma Chi fraternity,
Community Outreach Club and the student newspaper, LifeLines.
Five years prior to coming to Life West, Green was working as a certified massage
therapist and aerobics teacher. He also found time to use his massage therapy
talents while working as a spinal screener for a number of chiropractors, which
led him to his new career path into chiropractic.
To satisfy their continued pursuit of chiropractic knowledge and inspirational
ideas, more than 1,000 chiropractors, chiropractic assistants, and chiropractic
students took advantage of LCCW’s annual SPA Day in October.
Presented by the alumni association, attendees enjoyed a full day of seminars
led by some of the most successful chiropractic speakers in the world. The day
began with an inspiring state-of-chiropractic speech given by LCCW President
Dr. Gerard W. Clum.
Following his presentation, the participants were able to select from 21 concurrent
breakout sessions addressing a wide variety of chiropractic subjects including
chiropractic philosophy and techniques, managing a successful practice, and
serving as a witness in the court of law. The attendees also enjoyed catching
up with each other and exploring the one-year-old campus during the sponsored
luncheon.
Logan College of Chiropractic
Beginning next semester, students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania will
be able to register for a “Three-Plus-One” pre-chiropractic program
via a partnership between IUP and LCC.
“IUP students will spend three years there, taking pre-chiropractic course
requirements and electives, up to 90 hours,” says Patrick Browne, Ed.D.,
vice president of enrollment services. “Then they will enroll at Logan
College, with dual attribution of course work for the first academic year. After
completing two trimesters of basic science courses at Logan, the IUP students
will receive bachelor’s degrees from IUP. And they will be one-fifth of
the way through the DC program and Logan.”
Alan Bruha, Ph.D., instructor in Logan’s Accelerated Science (ASP) Program
spearheaded the process of developing the Three-Plus-One program with IUP. Similar
partnerships are in the process of formed with other universities, says Dr.
Browne.
Northwestern Health Sciences
University
Starting in January, NHSU’s School of Massage Therapy offered high-quality
massages at the DeRusha Clinical Education Center on the Bloomington campus.
Services are offered by student interns who have hundreds of hours of hands-on
experience and are under the direct supervision of faculty clinicians.
The experience also provides students written feedback on their performance
from the 15-minute observations made by the faculty clinicians and the questionnaires
filled out by their clients.
“Our students have had a strong science background and a curriculum that
is unsurpassed in the Twin Cities,” says Sarah L. Weaver, M.F.A., assistant
professor of Northwestern’s School of Massage Therapy. Northwestern’s
rigorous massage therapy program provides students with a keen understanding
of the human body through courses in anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, kinesiology
and nutrition.
The program also prepares learners with comprehensive training in massage therapy
assessment and treatment techniques and prepares them for careers in health
care as massage therapists. The clinic offers a range of techniques including
Swedish massage, trigger point therapy, cross-fiber friction and reflexology.
Palmer College of Chiropractic
Doug Sharpe, D.C., a 1997 PCC graduate, was one of 10 USA bobsled team members
at the Salt Lake City Olympics. In addition, Palmer’s Director of Chiropractic
Rehabilitation and Sports Injury, Dave Juehring, D.C., will be serving as team
leader.
Having won the U.S. championship in 1998 and 1999, Dr. Sharpe has devoted the
past four years to full-time training. His sled earned silver at the Olympic
trials. Interviewed in St. Moritz, Switzerland, in early January, Dr. Sharpe
said, “I am on cloud nine right now, ever since being named to the team
on Dec. 29. We are all changing from avid competitors to friendly teammates
with a common goal. This really is my dream come true.”
Sharpe, who hails from Jeffersonville, Ind., was a pole-vaulter while an undergraduate
student at Purdue University, but turned to the bobsledding event after he barely
missed making the U.S. pole-vault team for the summer games in 1996. “My
years at Palmer were tough, but these four years have been the biggest challenge
of my life,” he said.
Dr. Juehring serves as the team leader for the Men’s and Women’s U.S.
Olympic Bobsled Team. A veteran bobsled athlete and coach at the previous two
winter Olympics, he was responsible for team selection at the Olympic Bobsled
Trials and is involved with many administrative and coaching tasks for the Salt
Lake Games.
PCC has received its second $1.7 million federal grant to assist in the expansion
of its library and learning resource facilities, following previous $1.7 million
in funding that came in December 2000. Both allocations were authorized by the
Senate Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations subcommittee, and both
fundings were secured by Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), the ranking member of
the subcommittee.
“There are 20 million Americans receiving chiropractic care (yearly), with
half a million of those patients in Iowa,” noted Senator Harkin. “I’m
pleased that I was able to secure funding for expansion of this important Iowa
institution.”
“To our knowledge, this total is the largest-ever appropriation from the
federal government for a single building project on the campus of a chiropractic
college,” said Palmer Chancellor Michael Crawford, alluding to the combined
funding of $3.4 million for the expansion of the Palmer library and learning
resource facilities.
In addition to the library improvements, the $3.4 million grant will go to improving
the conference center; the chiropractic research data center; the federal government
depository; the distance learning center; the chiropractic archives and special
collections; and work areas for the faculty.
Palmer College of Chiropractic
– West
When the Canadian team ventures to Salt Lake City in February for the 2002 Winter
Olympics, it will mark the first time that the Canadian core medical team assigned
to care for the athletes during the two-week competition will also include a
doctor of chiropractic.
Although the absence of a chiropractor as an “official” member of
the sports-care team is long overdue, Palmer West alumnus Dr. Gregory Uchacz
(pictured above, center, with Olympians) says he’s still honored to be
the first to earn such a distinguished appointment, which comes as Dr. Uchacz
celebrates his 10-year anniversary in practice.
A fellow of the College of Chiropractic Sports Sciences - Canada (FCCSS-C),
Dr. Uchacz has worked toward his Winter Olympics appointment through a series
of roles as team doctor or team chiropractor for a variety of Canadian sports
competitions, from the World Figure Skating Championships in 1996, to the Canadian
National Junior Track and Field Championships in 1998, to team chiropractor
for the Canadian National Track and Field Championships, the Canadian Summer
Olympic Trials and the World Track and Field Championships.
Parker College of Chiropractic
The Parker Seminars celebrated a major milestone, 50th anniversary gathering,
in January with more than 8,000 chiropractors, clinical associates and their
families in Las Vegas.
Celebrity speakers included Dr. Deepak Chopra, world leader in the science of
mind-body medicine; Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of the popular “Chicken
Soup for the Soul” series; Dr. Wayne Dyer, author and expert in the field
of self-empowerment; Morris Goodman, who summarized a story of motivation and
courage in “The Miracle Man”; and Dr. Nathaniel Branden, author of
“Six Pillars of Self-Esteem.”
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