UPFRONT | News RECOgNITION Canada shines at international congress award for work with Dr. Jay Triano of Cana-The World Federation of Chiropractic (WFC) dian Memorial Chiropractic College 12th Biennial Congress and the Fédération Interna-tionale de Chiropratique du Sport (FICS) Assembly (CMCC) and Dr. Greg Wells from the Uni-versity of Toronto, using functional MRI to and Symposium, two events held in Durban, South measure blood flow in the neck and brain Africa, last April, were a showcase of Canadian circulation systems during various neck posi-excellence as awards and honours were handed out tions and cervical manipulation. The study to several Canadian professionals at these events. reported no clinically important change in At the WFC Congress, hosted by the Chiroprac-tic Association of South Africa (CASA), and at-blood flow through the vertebral arteries. tended by 850 delegates, Dr. Jessica Wong of To-Drs. Rick Ruegg, Martin Descarreaux, ronto received the Scott Haldeman Award, first Roly Bryans and colleagues from across Can-ada received the fourth main prize for their prize in the international original research compe-CMCC president Dr. Jean tition for the best full paper. Wong’s study, co-au-Moss receiving her award. paper titled, “Evidence-based guidelines for thored by Drs. Marion McGregor, Silvano Mior the chiropractic treatment of adults with neck and Patrick Loisel, evaluated the impact of policy changes pain,” prepared with support from the Canadian Chiropractic on the number of workers’ compensation claims due to back Association (CCA) and the Canadian Federation of Chiro-injuries in Ontario. It found that policies, when modeled practic Regulatory and Educational Accrediting Boards. All of these prize-winning papers will soon be published in based on economic theory, had less impact on the number the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. of claims than other identified drivers. Those presenting the awards include Dr. Scott Haldeman, Two of the other three main research paper awards also went to Canadians. Dr. Jairus Quesnele received the second place who was retiring as chair of the WFC Research Council after Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College 14 Canadian Chiropractor September 2013 www.canadianchiropractor.ca
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