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EICU president gives lecture at Barcelona College
T HAS been quite a year for the available for a first accreditation in surprise that the students engaged small but it offers high-quality Barcelona College of Chiropractic. March. Then, in June, the College enthusiastically in an interactive education delivered by academics,
The five-year programme leading to the double qualification as Titulo Superior en Quiropràctica and Master en Quiropràctica awarded by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra was granted the maximum ECCE accreditation
welcomed ECU president Øystein Ogre as a guest lecturer. During their first year the students have simultaneous translation Spanish- English-Spanish; thereafter they are expected to follow lectures
in either language. So it was no
session that challenged their diagnostic skills. Øystein gave
five examples of the symptoms presented by new patients at his clinic in Fredrikstad, Norway, with the question: “What would you look for, and how?” The ensuing discussion was lively and engaging with good participation from the floor where students, not just from Spain but from South America and Scandinavia, joined in.
With approximately 130 students, Barcelona College is still
practitioners and a medical doctor. Students work in a dozen treatment rooms that provide in-house
clinic experience, each covered
by closed circuit television linked to a central monitoring station where experienced practitioners watch over the treatments offered. In the reception area, visitors are welcomed by a colourful and joyous poster entitled The Fine Art of Healing by Donna Krin Korkes, which somehow conveys the ethos of the college.
Congratulations to Activator Methods on 50th anniversary
Activator Methods, the platinum sponsor of the ECU, celebrated its 50th anniversary in July. To mark the occasion the company invited 200 special guests to a symposium in its home town, Phoenix, Arizona. The ECU President sent a congratulatory message on the Union’s behalf (reproduced below) and the ECU Treasurer, Vasileios Gkolfinopoulos, represented Europe at the meeting (see page 24).
DEAR ARLAN, Congratulations on a momentous day. In my country,
24 July 1967 is remembered as the day that Norway applied to join
the European Common Market
(as it then was). Fifty years on
we can count the blessings that
that initiative has brought to my countrymen and women. In the chiropractic world, fifty years on
we remember and are thankful
for the initiative and engineering skill that a veteran of the US Navy brought to the development of spinal adjustment. I am, of course, talking about you, Arlan, and your own chiropractor, Warren Clemens Lee, who inspired you to join this marvellous profession and was your partner in discovery. The ECU salutes you both – the methods you pioneered to the benefit of countless patients suffering from MSK conditions have become legendary.
Chiropractic is a physical profession. Every day we manhandle
and physically adjust our patients. It is hard, tiring work that takes a physical toll on the chiropractor. The invention of a mechanical means of delivering a low intensity, safe adjustment has been invaluable to both chiropractor and patient. That you put at least as much emphasis on diagnosis as on the
use of the Activator instrument is tribute to your ethical approach and to your scientific mind. It surely lies behind why the method (and I use that word advisedly) is taught in almost all chiropractic colleges, why around 70% of chiropractors use it and why it is appropriate for about one quarter of our patients.
You have been quoted as saying that ‘personal opinion cannot compete with large data.’ How ahead of the times was that? Big Data, recording the circumstances of the patient, diagnosis, care, outcome and patient experience, is now the future for the profession. We are ahead of many other health
care professions in this and I know that you will derive great pleasure from that knowledge. Because,
not only have you built a thriving business, but you have always been keen to help the development of the network of professionals that lies behind your success and the scientific base underpinning all our work. Those are, of course, the foundations for good business – understood by the giants of 21st century business such as Bill Gates. But we all sense that in you, Arlan, the concern for the well-being of
those who
make up the profession goes deeper than the cash till. You are supporter, sponsor and friend of the ECU and we thank you for that. We join you today in celebrating the first 50 years of AMI and in wishing you and all at AMI great success in the decades to come.
With admiration and in friendship,
Øystein Ogre DC, MSc, FEAC, FRCC President, European Chiropractors’ Union
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