with Brandi MacDonald, a CA and practice owner with her husband Dr. Don MacDonald from Edmonton, Alberta. She’s one of the best advocates of the neo-vitalistic lifestyle I have ever heard speak anywhere in the world. Speakers on neurology and research will include Drs. Dan Sullivan, Ryan Cedermark, and David Fletcher; Dr. Melissa Briscoe Lamarche will present on posture; Dr.Liz Anderson Peacock on pediatrics; Dr.Cathy Wendland Colby will discuss pregnancy, and Dr. Eric Plasker will share “The 100 Year Lifestyle.” Dr. Guy Riekeman and Del Bigtree, will also be there. Del is pas-sionate about natural health and does a lot of research and documentary work and also speaks about natural healthcare all over the world. CC: While the Life Vision event will no doubt be a positive and uplifting experi-ence, every profession faces challenges. What is one of the biggest challenges in chiropractic you see today? LaMarche: It’s important to learn, know and understand the basics of communication – it’s a key factor to become what I call “the go-to health expert in your community.” One of the challenges that remain is self-esteem in the profession in my opinion. Chiropractors graduate from college thinking they are second-class citizens, or second-class practitioners. This issue stems from the fact that the education doesn’t give reverence to the chiropractic adjustment when an indi-vidual is subluxated. In my case, there’s nothing anyone could have done for me until my subluxations were corrected – period. I was dying and I was dying fast, and all they could think in a re-ductionist model was, “OK, well let’s open you up and change your heart and lungs.” Well, I didn’t opt for a trans-plant and my heart and lungs are working well even 15 years later. I avoided the unnecessary trauma from surgery, had the interference corrected and my body healed exactly as it is designed to do. Some people say [about chiropractic], “Well, if you don’t have any pain in your back or in your neck, then why should you go to a chiroprac-tor?” If that’s the model I had followed, I would be dead. I didn’t have any pain in my neck or back, yet I was dying because of spinal subluxations. We must give reverence and respect for the human body’s natural ability to heal. Dr. Jim Parker was my mentor and one of the lines that he taught me that still holds true to my heart today is “Loving service -my first technique.” When you choose to humble yourself to be a true servant and use the gift that you have to serve your community, to serve humanity, you get to live a very exceptional life. That’s the character that I developed and its basically my personality now. Your personality be-comes your personal reality. So, I choose to be a kind, loving, and respectful individual, and that’s what I get to live everyday. Study Proves that Bone Enlarges with Injury Researchers at the University of Cal-ifornia have discovered a mechanism within bone that causes its shape to change when injured 1 . This can affect osseous integrity, joint function and soft tissue tension, resulting in pain, in-stability, joint degeneration, organ dys function, and many of the neurological effects of TBI (concussion), due to cra-nial bone deformity. Based on this new evidence, as chiro-practors, we need to address these actual changes in bone structure, in order to fully restore function. For example, if the femoral head is enlarged, the hip joint will become in-flamed and painful, leading to degener-ation and the possible need for surgery. Matrix Repatterning is a gentle, evi-dence-based assessment and treatment system, which can restore normal bone structure within a few minutes, allow-ing many hip, knee, shoulder and spinal surgeries to be avoided. Normalize bone structure to deliver breakthrough results for your toughest patients will allow your patients to move on from their limiting conditions and enjoy life without pain. “Matrix Repatterning has changed my life and my career. It is the most pow-erful clinical approach I have ever come across, and I will never go back to the old way of doing things.” “This procedure can be very helpful for… TBI and other head injuries, even as a first intervention. Observing such cases has led me to hope that one day Measureable Change in Bone Size Matrix Repatterning will be routinely These remarkable results are lasting applied in hospital emergency depart-and dramatic, and have been verified by ments.” independent radiologists, researchers, Dr. Norman Doidge, MD Author: The Brain That and clinicians. This treatment system Changes Itself & The Brain's Way of Healing Dr. Andy Stella, DC, CMRP, Minneapolis, MN Visit MatrixForPractitioners.com for information and free educational webinar 1-877-905-7684 1.Fantner GE, Hassenkam T, Kindt JH, Weaver JC, Birkedal H, Pechenik L, Cutroni JA, Cidade GA, Stucky GD, Morse DE, Hansma PK , sacrificial bonds and hidden length dissipate energy as mineralized fibrils separate during bone fracture, Nat Mater. 2005 Aug;4(8):612-6. Epub 2005 Jul 17. www.canadianchiropractor.ca CC_Matrix_Oct18_CSA.indd 1 October 2018 Canadian Chiropractor 17 2018-09-18 9:24 AM
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