wasn’t the case, I don’t know if I’d be able to do both, to be honest.” Trying to manage his time between beach volleyball training and attending the college was full of challenges, he says, but he managed to complete his education and elevate his athletic skills to Olympic level. “The (CMCC) curriculum, as you know, is very intense,” Binstock notes. “I knew it would be difficult, but I did it. I wasn’t really being as successful (as I could have been) if I quit one and fo-cused on the other, but I was still suc-cessful enough to stay on the national team and represent Canada, and still successful enough to graduate school.” Despite his busy schedule between volleyball training and his chiropractic practice, Binstock takes the effort to keep his knowledge in chiropractic current and fulfil his continuing edu-cation requirements. When he’s not training for volleyball tournaments, Binstock attends semi-nars and workshops to maintain and update his chiropractic knowledge. During tournament season, as well, he takes advantage of windows of down-time for knowledge enhancement. “When I am travelling it gives me a lot of time to catch up and read up on new techniques and new information and new research,” he says. “As far as techniques, I am still getting treated myself and when I am home in the off-season, I’m connected to the chiro-practic world.” He engages in different types of practice with a diverse set of clients – from subluxation and mainte-nance-based to functional and sports chiropractic. “I like being able to treat all diverse conditions and situations, and not re-ally limit myself to a small population (of patients),” Binstock says. Practice dream Binstock knew from the beginning that chiropractic was always going to be his long-term goal. It was his back-up plan. “I wanted something that I had passion for,” he says. Like many young chiropractors, Bin-stock dreams of establishing his own practice someday, with a team of multi-disciplinary practitioners co-existing in the provision of patient care. 32 Canadian Chiropractor December 2013 www.canadianchiropractor.ca
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