FEATURE DC SPOTLIgHT life to the Fullest Building a chiropractic career while making his mark in world sports by M ari -L en D e G uzMan F Young athlete mAri-len De guzmAn is the editor of Canadian Chiropractor and Massage Therapy Canada magazines. You can contact her at [email protected]. 30 Canadian Chiropractor December 2013 Binstock was introduced to chiropractic at an early age, having received treatments from his uncle, who is a chiropractor. Binstock has always been very athletic and competitive even at a young age and recalls visiting his uncle often after some kind of injury from playing some type of sport. Just like many children, Binstock dreamed of making it in the big leagues. As a child, he played hockey in the winter and played baseball in the summer. “By the time I was 15 or 16, I realized I wasn’t going to be a professional (player) in either (sport). www.canadianchiropractor.ca Photos: Neutral Lights Digital Solutions | Main Olympic Image: FIVB or most chiropractors, managing one’s time means juggling multiple tasks – from patient treatment and consulta-tions to managing the practice and maintaining professional certification requirements. Dr. Josh Binstock takes time manage-ment to a whole new level, striking a balance be-tween two extremely different yet closely related careers: chiropractic and professional sport. A graduate of the Canadian Memorial Chiro-practic College since 2009, Binstock has been maintaining his chiropractic practice while training for beach volleyball competitions. Binstock is part of the Canadian national team competing in the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour. Binstock admits the current setup is less than ideal, and sometimes one profession gets more attention than the other. For about five months of the year, during the world beach volleyball tour, his training for beach volleyball occupies much of his time. “Your patients get accustomed to you,” Binstock says. “You need a routine schedule and you always need to be available. The unfortunate reality is I’m not always available from May to September.” Binstock has set up his practice at the Vaughan Chiropractic Family Wellness Centre in Vaughan, Ont. In addition to being a chiropractor and world Beach volleyball is a cognitive game athlete, he also speaks at local schools, business and organizations about the importance of health and wellness. He treats a variety of conditions among a diverse clientele that ranges from high-level athletes with traumatic or overuse injuries to regular patients seeking maintenance and preventative treatments. Being an athlete gives him the extra edge in his chiropractic practice and vice versa, Binstock says. “Both are just about how you live,” he explains. “We’re high-performance athletes but you also want to have a healthy mind and a healthy diet. Same thing with chiropractic – yes, you’re treating the body but you also want to have good nutrition, which will help the body heal and will also (pro-mote) a clear mind.” “There are a lot of things that intertwine between both, so I like how I can relate one to the other and how they are associated.”
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