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What Are My Choices?

Editorial Staff

You've made the decision to become a doctor of chiropractic; invested money in your education, the perfect practice location, staffing, etc. Now what? Where can you go to find information on products, education and other goods and services to help grow your practice?

"What Are My Choices?" is a monthly column that gives you the information you need, straight from the experts: the companies themselves. This column focuses on companies that provide tables and handheld instruments - valuable elements of a successful chiropractic practice. Consider the wide range of choices available:

Axiom Worldwide: Tel: 877-438-0663; Web: www.axionworldwide.com.

Please see page 12 for more information.

Bray Corporation: was formed in 1997 to develop a handheld instrument that would introduce the distraction principles to the spine that would effectively work on every level of the spine, not just the lower lumber or cervical spine. The VDP has shown that it may consistently correct the two main sources of pain - pain from the facet joint capsule or from the annular fibers of the disc.

Products offered: Vertebral Distraction Pumps (VDP) and accessories. Tel: 877-377-0070.

Please see page 43 for more information.

Business Wizards, Inc.: U.S. master distributor of low-level laser therapy products. Products and services include: Low-Level Laser Therapy Products. Tel: 605-342-5669; E-mail: kip@rapidnet.com.

Carpal Kinetics: Tel: 877-599-PAIN; Web: www.wristwrac.com.

CHI Institute: was founded to investigate human vitality and energy and to develop products providing benefits in those areas, which include the use of Chaotic Alpha Signals as part of Infratonic Therapy technology in a medical environment. From the initial prototypes developed in 1983, the technology has been continually evaluated and improved and today represents the first choice in infrasound therapy devices in a wide range of medical disciplines.

Products and services include: Infratonic 8(Multiple Frequency Therapeutic Massager); Infrasound 8 (Multiple Frequency Therapeutic Massager); Infratonic QGM 4.3 (Single Frequency Therapeutic Massager); Equitonic 3 (Therapeutic Massager for Equine Therapy); CHIonizer (Auto and Air Travel Vitalizer). Tel: 800-743-5608; E-mail: info@chi.us; Web: www.chi.us.

Distraction Enterprise LLC: Formed in 2001, Distraction Enterprise LLC manufactures and distributes The Cox(r) Table designed specially by James M. Cox, DC, DACBR, for physicians wanting to adjust their patients the most efficiently and specifically way possible with the most technologically state-of-the-art flexion distraction instrument. The cervical spine headpiece is the most exciting enhancement with its axial, long-y-axis distraction feature.

Product: The Cox(r) Table. Tel: 800-441-5571; E-mail: info@coxtable.com; Web: www.coxtable.com

Flexstim.com: Tel: 888-439-9091; Web: www.flexstim.com.

Graston Technique: Tel: 866-926-2828; Web: www.grastontechnique.com.

Hessco/Leander: Tel: 800-635-8188; Web: www.chiropractictables.com.

Please see page 16 for more information.

IMPAC: Tel: 800-569-8624.

Icon International: Tel: 877-426-6111.

Lauren Manufacturing: Tel: 800-683-0676; Web: www.lauren.com.

Leader/Leander Health Technologies: Being in business for over 20 years, few companies can proudly say they are truly the leader in providing quality, technologically advanced treatment tables for the chiropractic profession. As the first company in the world to add motorized distraction and controlled electric flexion to chiropractic tables, Leader has backed its reputation by leading the way in providing its products to many, if not most, of the leading chiropractic and biomechanical researchers in the world. If you want the very best and most advanced adjusting instrument, come to Leader/Leander.

Products include: Multi-Purpose Motorized CPM Adjusting Tables and Manual Flexion Adjusting Tables. Tel: 800-237-5652; E-mail: hessco@aol.com; Web: www.chiropractictables.com.

Lifetimer International: Tel: 888-421-0401; Web: www.lifetimerint.com.

Lloyd Table: Tel: 800-553-7297; Web: www.lloydtable.com.

Please see page 22 for more information.

Thomas Tables: Tel: 800-322-2162.

Please see page 3 for more information.

Thuli Tables, Inc.: Thuli Tables' philosophy is simple and straightforward: Build the best quality product possible at a fair price and do whatever it takes to keep our customers happy. We've stayed true to this philosophy from the time that we sold our first table in 1982. As testament to our company's reputation, the vast majority of our orders come to us by word of mouth from happy customers.

Products and services include: Portable tables and accessories, stationary office tables and accessories, elevation office tables and accessories, portable drop pieces, and the revolutionary "Convertible" (two tables in one). Tel: 800-458-4854; E-mail: thuli@mhtc.net; Web: www.thuli.com.

If your company offers products or services to the chiropractic profession and you would like to be listed in "What Are My Choices," please contact Dynamic Chiropractic at 1-800-324-7758.

February 2004
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