The National Board of Chiropractic Examiners' (NBCE) Horace C. Elliott Center was honored by the City of Greeley (Colo.) as a recipient of the 8th annual City of Greeley Excellence in Community Design Award. The Greeley Planning Commission established this award in 2004 to recognize local building projects on an annual basis.
These building projects demonstrate outstanding construction, design and execution. Some of the criteria include:
Contribution to city design objectives
Quality of the environment
Innovation
Context of the project
Quality of construction materials
Interpretation of the design into the final project
(Left to Right) Larry Steel, Steel & Associates; Sue Elliott; John Betz, NBCE Facility Coordinator; Pamela Kurtz, NBCE Director of Administration
Awards are presented to architects, builders, landscape designers and others who have achieved excellence in a local project. The winners are selected by a seven-member panel of judges from the Greeley community.
The award ceremony was conducted at the City of Greeley's Sept. 6 City Council Meeting with Pamela Kurtz, NBCE Director of Administration, accepting the award on behalf of the NBCE.
It is estimated that 61% of patients with CTS avoid taking surgical options due to postoperative complications and costly surgical procedures. Chiropractic care offers a comprehensive and effective treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome, addressing the condition from multiple angles. Recent studies also have unveiled a game-changing adjunct to chiropractic treatments for CTS: nerve flossing.
The Romberg test is a neurological procedure used to assess balance and can be used to gauge a patient’s risk of falling. Unfortunately, the test itself is a fall risk. The fall risk is not huge, and falls are not frequent. However, I have encountered a few situations that have influenced how I use and teach the test.
Sadly, Japan now has over 12,000 chiropractic therapists (Zenkenkai/JCA chiropractors), dramatically outnumbering the fewer than 700 DCs who have graduated from accredited chiropractic educational programs. These chiropractic therapists have a clear economic and political advantage that makes appropriate chiropractic legislation nearly impossible. What if this same thing happenened in the U.S.?
