editor’s note JUNE 2008, VOLUME 13 NUMBER 4 Editor Maria DiDanieli [email protected] (289) 259-1408 (888) 599-2228 ext. 247 Maria DiDanieli tients. Dr. Scott Howitt works with the cast of Dirty Dancing in Toronto, and has brought us our cover story about treating dancers to optimize the duration and profi ciency of their performance. But, because not all competitive athletes are human, we have also included T an article on chiropractic for four-legged patients! On April 8, the Toronto Star ran a story on Dr. Fenella Ely, a chiropractor with a mixed practice – mean- ing animal and human. The piece was a lovely moment of advocacy for the profession as a whole, and especially for those DCs who welcome animals into their practices. In our June issue, Dr. Larry McCarthy takes the story of animal chiropractic one furlong further and shares with us some of the reasons chiro- practors are increasingly sought out for animal sporting events. There are many chiropractors who compete in sporting events, in their communities as well as on the world stage. We caught up with Dr. Paul Attalla from Fernie, British Columbia, who rowed solo across the Atlantic Ocean, earlier this year, in an international race. Attalla shared his journey with us – including how being a chiropractor impacted his training and success in completing the course – and we are proud to pass it on to you in a two-part series that will be continued in our July/August issue. I marvel at the ability and agility of those persons who pursue sports and fi tness activities, whether on an amateur or professional basis. I live in awe of their physical prowess as well as their endurance and ability to rise to the challenge of a race, marathon, or tournament. We encounter, in this issue, the call to rise to other challenges as well. Dr. Andre-Marie Gonthier, president of the Ordre des Chiropracticiens du Quebec, has rallied the chiropractic associations across Canada to the chal- lenge of unifying their members for the purpose of discussing those issues that are important to the progress of the profession at this time. At the Parker Seminars in Montreal, various speakers challenged all chiropractors to make the commitment to support those principles of chiropractic that represent its potential to defi ne health-care reform in our country. And fi nally, through our letters to the editor, in this issue, Canadian Chiropractor challenges our readers to let us know how you are successfully living out your principle, or practice paradigm, of choice. Whether we are athletes or not, we are all called on to rise to a challenge at one time or another. Those who are gifted with the responsibility of being healers are given a unique challenge – to sustain human life, including the mind and spirit without which that life would not be lived to its full potential. It’s quite an undertaking and, for chiropractors, it’s more than just a job or responsibility – it’s a commitment to “self” to take what you know you’ve been given and use it, every day, to serve a public that needs your gifts. • Bien à vous, he goal, in this issue, was to discuss chiropractic and sports – this goal has been met, many thanks to those chiropractors who have written about their experiences, either as competitors or in treating athletic pa- Editorial Director Drew McCarthy [email protected] National Advertising Manager Christine Livingstone [email protected] (888) 599-2228 ext. 239 Sales Assistant Barb Comer [email protected] (888) 599-2228 ext. 235 Production Artist Brooke Shaw VP/Group Publisher Diane Kleer [email protected] President Mike Fredericks [email protected] Mailing Address P.O. Box 530, 105 Donly Drive South, Simcoe, ON N3Y 4N5 PUBLICATION MAIL AGREEMENT #40065710 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN AD- DRESSES TO CIRCULATION DEPT., P.O. 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