Upper Cervical Forest | Lots to be thankful for
Dr. Mike Burcon, the UC doc who has written a number of Meniere’s papers for publication, holds the distinction that as a student he found BJ’s electroencephaloneuromentimpograph in a storage room at Sherman and rebuilt it. It is amazing how ahead of his time BJ was as this machine was a precursor to the EEG machine. Now they actually have games in which you hook a pad over your head and your mental thoughts can actually move a ball around an obstacle course. Sure didn’t work for me in high school basketball!!!
Got any extra UC equipment? Dr. Ray Rickards requests the following: In the “cervical stuff” I would like to put a request for used Blair headclamp and a Blair x-ray chair Contact Dr. Rickards at Email innate1953@yahoo.com or call 760 745 1511 Wk , 760 751 0557 Hm. San Diego,Ca
Rock and Roll in Upper Cervical? Check out the radio interview with UCHC Dr. Ian Bulow ‘spreading the word’, which I’ve attached. This is a vivid example of how desperate people are for the simple solution we have. Do you realize the billions spend on headache medication…. and yet no pill can reposition an atlas!!!
How is your Korean? Dr. Drew Hall had a reporter write an article on his office and Upper Cervical which I’ve attached. You may want to copy it and hand it out to your Korean American patients. Just don’t do what one of Dr. Kirby Landis management doctors did as he took one of Kirby’s newspaper ads, put it in his local paper, and then was disappointed he didn’t get any new patients off the ad…because he kept Kirby’s phone number and address in the ad!!!
Got new UC docs setting up everywhere! It’s exciting. Dr. Loyd Rye studied with us at Palmer, worked with Dr. Scott Matz in Missoula, MT, and has now become a Texan. Here is the latest, so add him to you referral list:
We moved down to Fort Worth, Texas and are now settled in. I decided to share an office with Dr. Mike Thompson in the old Pruitt clinic. We will each have our own practice in there. It’s certainly big enough; it’s around 5,000 square feet. I’m almost ready to open my office. I’ll try to be open by December 1st, but that date is approaching fast. Here’s my info:
Loyd Rye, D.C.
2214 Hemphill St.
Fort Worth, TX 76110
(817) 927-7879
Need a UC doc in Norway? Soon Dr. Michael Dibley, PCC grad, will be opening his clinic with his partner. Here is what he says:
I am currently in the Optima Kiropraktikk Klinikk but My Girlfriend of 5 years (Dr. Cathrine S. Walle D.C.) and I will be opening up our own within the month. I am able to shoot film here no problem and as far as I know the only Upper Cervical (Toggle and NUCCA) practitioner in the country. I just ordered 4 toggle tables, 3 with drops and one with a NUCCA style head piece (One of my first Chiropractic loves is NUCCA as well)
We will officially open December 1st. We have two clinics. one in Bø i Telemark and one in Skotfoss Norway.
The clinic name is as follows.
The Institute For Human Potential
A 360° Clinic
We are currently building our website. We have a fully functional and operational Facebook Page. All of our necessary information is there. Add them to your referral list.
We also have a new Upper Cervical office in Orlando opened by Dr.Matthew Roe. Add his clinic to your referral list:
Upper Cervical Health Centers in Orlando has officially opened!
A couple weeks ago I wrote about the great accomplishments of ‘student’ Brandon Harshe (harshe@gmail.com) and his ideas of spreading the UC word via blogs. He made up Done By Hand: The Blueprint to Chiropractic Blogging Success which you can download at http://bit.ly/1dtd08 I did make one mistake regarding his student status:Thanks for putting my message in your email. I have to correct you though… I graduated in August. I’m just waiting to take my TX jurisprudence test on Monday. I shudder to think about still being a student.
Of course I called my former associate Brett “Jake” Hollowell, when it is actually Brent, so I guess I made two errors last week!
OK, make that three, while owning up to my errors, I apologize for misspelling Dr. Opal Garman’s name in my last e-mail as I was so excited about the UC testimonial she sent me that the brain went on cruise control. (I know,…. what brain?) Anyway, here is more from that great UC clinic:I have been under UC care now for a little over two years now. My story is quite, well, what I would characterize as “unremarkably remarkable”. I have no testimony of a chronic condition being suddenly healed, no incredible transformation of health occurring, or other type of “wow” story. As you recall, I first came to your office (after my wife did so) as a then full spine chiropractic patient. My wife had brought home some information and pamphlets from your office about UC, and she tried explaining to me how UC care was “different” than the full spine chiropractic care we had received in the past. I didn’t really understand her explanation, so I read the materials and went to the web to research and to try and understand why it was different. I combed numerous sites for information. I was quite intrigued and spent a lot of time reading in order to gain a level of understanding before my first appointment so I could at least talk intelligently about the subject. I quickly grasped the “big picture” concept, but was initially confused by the various UC certifications, as well as the techniques and methodologies used to accomplish what I know today to be the same end goal of UC. I also had loads of questions. In our early meetings in your office, as a result of our discussions, I began to understand the true principal of UC and the benefit it could provide to almost anyone. Oh yeah, and then there was the scene in your office that I will never forget, when you asked me point blank, “what is your problem today, why are you here?” When I replied “I’m not here for a specific malady, but for future good health”, you looked at me in almost utter disbelief, as if I was some sort of spy who was being ratted out! I don’t think you had ever encountered a patient who just looking for a long life of good health instead of a problem fix! As we talked further, I did discuss my prior history of occasional low back issues from playing golf, yard work, living life, etc. After my initial visit, you patiently showed me my x-rays and explained the potential degenerative process I was exposing my cervical spine to if I did nothing. Even with just what I knew at that time, I saw immediately the benefit and value of coming under corrective care. So much so that I insisted that my 17 and 20 year old sons begin UC care (it’s a lifetime of health for them). As you know, my wife, sons and I have now been under care for the two plus years. Although I have had almost no further low back issues since then (as opposed to the 6 times or so per year I would see a fill spine chiropractor), and have generally remained in good health, my story doesn’t end there.
While I have long since been a proponent of alternative or complimentary health care, I have become a staunch UC Advocate. I have referred numerous friends and family to UC care, some even with your help to out of state UC docs. Surprisingly to me, when I thought about the people and families who had been referred, the number was over 20; and that didn’t include the people they may have come in contact with! Several of those I know about (and probably some I don’t) have had some remarkable changes in their health and lives because of UC care. These cases and others I have heard and read about, along with my own benefit of continued good health (and that of my family) keep me inspired to continue to spread the word of UC. From being a host of 3 or 4 movie nights for The Power of Upper Cervical (of which I’ve now seen probably a dozen times and can recite lines from particular docs and patients!) to participating in Advocate meetings, to handing out UC flyers from my car, to the coup de grace of attending last years Evolution in Las Vegas, I have gained a much greater knowledge and understanding of UC and how it can be a tremendous benefit to everyone! As we have talked about on many an occasion, having good health is invaluable and the way we were meant to live!
I cannot ever really thank you and Dr Michael enough for the care, compassion, patience and understanding you have shown for me and my family as patients. I especially appreciate the (extra) time you have spent answering my questions and helping educate me, which I believe ultimately pays dividends to the UC cause and those in need of care. Hopefully I can, in my own way, continue to pass on the message and vision of UC, provide support to you all, and be an encouragement to others (maybe somehow even other UC docs!).
So, you see, while my actual UC “care” story is somewhat unremarkable (but believe me, I don’t discount its effects on my health and well being), being exposed to and in a small way participating in the UC movement has had a remarkable effect on my life, and hopefully touched the lives of others!
But my story doesn’t end there…(to be continued!)
Your voice regarding the direction of our profession can make a difference. Drs. John Goodfellow III, Greg Adams, & Jenny Dusibar all sent me the following:
Subject: CHIROPRACTIC SURVEY
To ALL Chiropractors, We need your input ASAP, please pass this along to your e-mail group of Chiropractors. Please go to http://bsu.edu/chiropractic and fill out this survey for chiropractic. Your input will help in the decision making of possible changing the chiropractic college’s curriculum to help unify the profession, to protect the Chiropractic Philosophy and Principles, and most of all give the student the CHOICE of practicing within the Chiropractic Philosophy, or to practice within the medical model. If you are on Face Book, please encourage other DCs to go on line to complete this survey. The information will be compiled by January 11, 2010. So please do not procrastinate on this. The time is to act now
Want to know what it happening regarding UC at the New Zealand Chiropractic College? Dr. John Hilpisch sent me this reply from Dr. Graham Dobson:
I present our upper cervical specific course with an articular focus and have done for several years. I teach UC biomechanics as per Panjabi and White and I include the Blair concepts of atlanto-occipital misalignment tracking and sliding etc. I took my first Blair seminar here in NZ in 1972. I also teach pattern work and we use the TyTron 3000 scanner. Other analytical procedures taught are palpation for tone and position; muscle palpation; motion palpation; muscle testing analysis; leg check analysis, all of which are included in pattern analysis.
In conclusion, we have so much to be thankful for on Thanksgiving. The changes your patients experience physically and emotionally are astounding. Could you imagine doing anything else? As Dr. Charlie Ward once asked me, “Would you rather be a proctologist???”
Take care-
Tom
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