UPFRONT | News RESEARCH CCRF symposium aims to close research-practice gap The Canadian Chiropractic Research Foundation will bring together “world-class” chiropractic researchers across Canada and from around the world to discuss key issues and priorities facing the chiropractic profession in a symposium to be help Sept. 27 and 28, at the Intercon-tinental Hotel in Toronto. The Canadian Chiropractic Research Symposium titled, Closing the Re-search-Practice Gap in Neuromusculo-skeletal Health, Injury and Disease, hopes to address important questions for the chiropractic profession, including: • How research can better relate to the 7,000 clinical practitioners in Canada • What research is needed over the next five years • How researchers, policy and clinical decision-makers can work together • How Clinical Practice Guidelines link to policy development • The role of scientific evidence in devel-oping public and health policy • How researchers can help reduce the knowledge-to-practice gap and im-prove patient care • How researchers can favourably influ-ence policies to help standardize patient experience across Canada • How to strengthen the connections between the research of a neurophysi-ologist, biomechanist, cell biologist, epidemiologist or social scientist and the field practitioner • How collaborative neurophysiology research can lead to better treatment and prevention of whiplash injuries • How biomechanics research can con-tribute to clinical practice in the future • How advances in cellular and molecu-lar biology can define chiropractic clinical practice • Are there measurable outcomes of chiropractic research in Canada? • What deliverables and meaningful outputs should researchers develop to quantify the benefit to the stakeholders: the Canadian Institutes of Health Re-search (CIHR), the public and policy-makers? The two-day event features keynote speakers: Jane Aubin, chief scientific of-ficer and vice-president, research and knowledge translation portfolio at CIHR; Collin Carrie, parliamentary secretary to the minister of health; Hani El-Gabalawy, scientific director, Institute of Musculo-skeletal Health and Arthritis, CIHR; and Michael Fehlings, medical director of the Krembil Neuroscience Center and heads the spinal program at Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network. Experience the Power of Matrix Repatterning … and Become the Pain Solution Expert Gentle, Eff ective, Easy on the Practitioner Matrix Repatterning, developed by Dr. George Roth DC ND is a clinically-proven form of manual therapy that addresses structural imbalance at the cellular level. “Here is an objective method for diagnosing and safely treating a variety of musculoskeletal malfunctions that will be useful for clinicians. It tells you how to fi nd them—and how to treat them. Try it. It works!” Dr. Stephen Levin, MD Orthopedic Surgeon Learn to provide real clinical solutions for the following conditions: Low Back Pain Hip & Knee Pain ■ Foot & Ankle Pain ■ Headache, Migraine, TMJ ■ Frozen Shoulder, Carpal Tunnel ■ Snoring & Sleep Apnea ■ ■ Dr. George Roth DC. ND. These practical, hands-on seminars will provide the practitioner with the clinical skills to eff ectively assess and treat the underlying cause of these and many other conditions. You will be able to apply these skills immediately following the seminar. UPCOMING WORKSHOPS Introduction to Matrix Repatterning—Lower Extremity Dates: December 6-7, 2013 Visit us at the Massage Therapy & Chiropractic Conference: January 10-11, 2014 October 18-20th Niagara Falls, Ontario Location: Newmarket, Ontario Cost: $697 $497 (If payment is received 30 days prior to seminar start date) For more information or to register please visit our website: www.matrixrepatterning.com or contact us at: Telephone: 905-836-WELL (9355) Toll-Free: 1-877-905-7684 Email: [email protected] “Dr. George Roth is in the forefront of the soft tissue world. His work represents a new dimension in the evaluation and treatment of structural disorders. Matrix Repatterning off ers your most diffi cult, chronic patients real hope. After taking his course, I had a new awareness of causation, evaluation and treatment.” Warren Hammer, DC Norwalk, Connecticut Author: Functional Soft Tissue Examination and Treatment by Manual Methods 12 Canadian Chiropractor September 2013 www.canadianchiropractor.ca
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