A story reported in the April 01, 2002 Northwest Florida Daily News reported on a chiropractic mission to the country of Panama where tens of thousands of Panamanians got chiropractic adjustments. In this mission project 32 chiropractors closed their offices for a week and spent their own money to help people in the Central American
read moreThomas Bjorn is a professional golfer from Denmark who made a bit of sports history at the 87th PGA Championship when he shot a round of 63 and tied the record for the lowest score in a major PGA tournament. However, this accomplishment of sports history and Bjorn’s second place finish in the 2005 PGA
read moreAn interesting story appeared in the August 8, 2006 issue of the “Forrest Lake Times” from Minnesota. In this story they report on a Chiropractor, Dr. Josee Gerard, who has a practice in Minnesota where she takes care of human patients, and a practice across the border in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin where she cares
read morePresident Clinton named a chiropractor to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The President formed The White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine and charged it with making recommendations on how public policy can maximize the benefits to the public of what they called “complementary and alternative medicine”. Originally, no chiropractor
read moreThe above headline came from a web site called www.parentsplace.com. This web site covers many issues in parenting but seems to do an exceptional job with chiropractic. In this particular article the authors do a good job of describing the chiropractic philosophy when they say, “Chiropractic is based on a vitalistic philosophy, which recognizes simply,
read moreA November 7, 2001 report on a study conducted by the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association showed that a chiropractic technique known as the “Webster Breech Turning Technique” was statistically very successful in resolving breech pregnancies without medical procedures. A Breech pregnancy is when the baby is not properly positioned in the mother’s womb near the
read moreFrom the August 3, 2002 issue of the Los Angeles Daily News comes an uplifting story that has been labeled by the paper as, “A Miracle on Hortense Street. The story is of 10-year-old, Laura Bibb, a developmentally delayed girl, who as the newspaper reported, “went from being the neighborhood pity to the neighborhood Rocky.”
read moreOn March 4th, 2006 Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a long-time chiropractic supporter, addressed a group of around 200 Doctors of Chiropractic at the 14th annual International Chiropractors Association (ICA) Symposium on Natural Fitness. The event is held each year in conjunction with the Governor’s own bodybuilding and fitness event, the Arnold Fitness Weekend. In his appearance
read moreOn September 6, 2005 the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a letter reporting on the US Department of Defense (DoD) implementation of chiropractic benefits to active duty military personnel. In 2001 Congress passed the National Defense Reauthorization Act requiring the US Department of Defense to create and implement a plan to make the chiropractic
read moreStories from each side of the Atlantic Ocean have highlighted the benefits of good posture and its relationship to good overall health. One of the articles found in the May 4, 2005 PR Newswire highlights the problem that many people spend all day tapping away on a keyboard at the office only to come home
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