Month: September 2007

Jenny McCarthy, actress and author of a new book, appeared on today’s Oprah television program, along with Holly Robinson Peete, wife of football superstar Rodney Peete. News of the broadcast is spreading quickly, and posts in the blogosphere are appearing faster than you can say… thiomerisol.

According to historical reports, September 18, 1895 is the day Daniel David Palmer gave the first chiropractic adjustment, which took place in Davenport Iowa. It was not long after that day that Palmer needed a name for his developing science. The Reverend Samuel Henry Weed, born in Indiana in 1843, is credited with creating the word chiropractic, around the time of January 1896.

I’m the most senior member of the chiropractic college community in the educational circle. I’ve been President of Life West for 25 years, was on the faculty, the founding faculty of Life University, then Life Chiropractic College in 1975, and on the faculty of the Palmer College of Chiropractic before that. In addition to serving as President of Life West, I presently serve as the First Vice President of the World Federation of Chiropractic and, barring any unforeseen foolishness on my part, will assume the presidency of that later in the month.

Mention chiropractors, and one is likely to draw up an image of a healthy, fortysomething year old male, who has built some impressive forearm muscles, as a result of years delivering hands-on care to his patients. But there is another chiropractor on the block, and she can deliver a solid side posture on a pro football linebacker like it’s no one’s business. Not only that, she lays her hands on the spine of a one-week old child, with a tender touch like that of the infant’s own mother. From the eastern shores of Halifax, Nova Scotia to the Western inlet of the San Francisco Bay, the demand for a caring and professional female doctor of chiropractic, is steadily on the rise in northern America.

I’m Dr. Richard Plummer. I practice in South Carolina, and I have served on the Board of the Chiropractic Examiners in South Carolina for nine years. I was a member of a chiropractic college administration and also faculty for 12 years. But today I’m here because I serve currently as the Chairman for the Federation of Straight Chiropractors and Organizations, also known as the FSCO.

International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA) Announces Preliminary Results of their Children’s PBRN Survey Study: “Treatment-related aggravations, complications and improvements attributed to chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy of pediatric patients: a practice-based survey of practitioners.”

News of the Britney Spears performance at MTV music awards, out numbers news of a Sharp Increase in Deaths from Consumer Drugs, by a factor of nearly 25 to 1. It’s no surprise that we are more interested in entertainment than we are matters of health, at least until that health is gone.

September is chiropractic history month. Planet Chiropractic has posted four chiropractic video segments featuring Herbert Ross Reaver, the “most jailed” chiropractor of the 1900s. The following is some commentary with Herbert Ross Reaver, transcribed from the video…

News reports earlier this week suggested that the Barack Obama Presidential Campaign Website (barackobama.com) is receiving more internet traffic than any other 2008 Presidential Campaign website. While the most common conclusion for this would be that the Illinois Senator is the most popular of candidates, it’s important not to rule out the effectiveness of a well-planned out Search Engine Optimization strategy, commonly known amongst Internet professionals and marketers as “SEO.”

This past year witnessed an historic event when the Council on Chiropractic Education (CCE) petitioned for renewal of recognition by the United States Department of Education (USDE). It was said that the USDE had never had so many people attend a hearing before. Individuals and representatives from several organizations provided testimony including…

Nearly 1,700 Palmer College of Chiropractic alumni and guests came to Palmer’s Davenport Campus for Homecoming 2007 Aug. 9-11. This year’s theme, “Look Inside,” referred to some exciting additions to Palmer’s Davenport Campus, as well as the healing, compassion and knowledge that chiropractors can find within themselves and at Palmer.

It was an incredible event. A little after 6pm, the windows in the house began to rattle. I was adjusting a patient but we thought nothing of it. I live in Peru, this is common. I have felt dozens of tremors over the past years and some rather strong. However this was different. This was no tremor. After a few seconds it got a lot stronger. The adjusting room opens out to a garden in the back of the house. So I told the young man on the table that he was welcome to come outside with me. As I went into the garden and looked up at the house, I could see it swaying. All the other buildings in the neighborhood were doing the same. In fact, most of the buildings in the entire country were swaying.

Chiropractor reports on the magnitude 7.9 earthquake that struck Peru on August 15th, 2007. The following appeared on my desk via e-mail from someone I know in the Los Angeles community.