Michael J. Kudlas, D.C. of Brooklyn, Michigan, has been appointed to the International Advisory Committee of the International Holistic Health Association by Dr. Issac Matthai of Bangalore, India, one of the association's founders. Dr. Kudlas will serve as the chiropractic liason to this international organizaton, whose headquarters are in London, England.
Dr. Kudlas was asked to serve after his chiropractic presentation at the First International Conference on Holistic Health and Medicine held in Bangalore last November. This conference was the first of its kind and brought together over 600 delegates from 30 countries to review the various types of healing arts throughout the world.
Dr. Kudlas was one of only three chiropractors in the world to speak at the conference and the only one to present a paper on chiropractic and its role in healing and health. He was also instrumental in helping to draft the conference's Declaration of Health which was unanimously adopted by the delegates. Dr. Kudlas will be assisting in the presentation of the second conference to be held in England sometime in 1992.
At an annual meeting at Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas, Texas on June 1, 1990, Dr. Herbert J. Vear of Pickering, Ontario, president of the Council on Chiropractic Education (Canada) and former president of Western States College of Chiropractic, has been elected as the sixth president of the Association for the History of Chiropractic (AHC).
Other new officers elected are: Dr. Mildred Lee (Georgia), vice president; Ms. Glenda Wiese (Iowa), secretary; and Dr. Arnold Goldschmidt (New York), treasurer.
New directors elected are: Drs. Robert Hurley and Joseph Keating (California) to three-year terms; Dr. Walt Wardell (Connecticut) for two years; and Dr. Don Sutherland (Ontario) for one year.
For the first time in seven years, Dr. Len Fay, founder of the AHC in 1980, will be absent from the board of directors, a victim of the AHC bylaws which limit the terms of officers and directors.
The AHC honored Dr. Leonard K. Griffin of Auburn, California as the 1990 recipient of the Lee-Homewood Chiropractic Heritage Award. A pioneer in Texas in helping to secure legislation, Dr. Griffin had also campaigned vigorously to obtain a "chiropractic science" definition by the profession in the 1960s.
"This investigation focuses on the effects of spinal adjustments on cervical range of motion asymmetries," said Dr. Nansel. "Up to this point, the only category of asymmetry we've examined has been in cervical lateral flexion. This grant allows us to conduct a more thorough investigation of asymmetries and/or patterns of asymmetries about other planes, or axes, of cervical motion."
Many relevant diagnostic signs are not performed deliberately by the examiner or by the patient at the examiner’s direction. They are observed as the patient reacts to their condition. Fortin’s finger sign, Minor’s sign, and Vanzetti’s sign are three examples of this principle.
Spearheaded by burgeoning scientific and clinical research literature, psychedelics have reached a level of media coverage and popular interest that has not been seen for over half a century. By “psychedelics,” we are referring to the unique class of substances that includes psilocybin (the active compound found in so-called “magic mushrooms”), LSD, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ayahuasca, 5-MeO-DMT, and mescaline – each of which occurs in the natural world (except for LSD, which is a semi-synthetic compound).
While working at the Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, N.M., one of the primary care physicians stated that imaging every patient prior to receiving chiropractic was not medically necessary. It was at that point I reconsidered the need for the imaging of every patient to avoid malpractice.
