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.
Because they have yet to pass national legislation protecting the chiropractic profession, Japanese DCs are in a similar situation that U.S. DCs faced. We were fortunate enough to be able to pass chiropractic licensure state by state. The DCs in Japan must accomplish this nationally, which has proved to be an extremely difficult task. And in spite of their efforts, Japanese DCs are currently faced with two chiropractic professions.
This article focuses on nine severe injuries that are generally not diagnosable until the third to fourth week following the date of injury, including how to diagnose these severe injuries. The discovery of any of these injuries early can make a significant difference in the case outcome.
There has long been an attempt by those who are not legitimate doctors of chiropractic to usurp the title of chiropractor from those who have earned their degree from an accredited chiropractic program. This generally happens in countries where the local doctors of chiropractic have yet to pass legislation requiring a degree from an accredited institution. The result is essentially two chiropractic professions. Nowhere is this danger more pronounced than in Japan.
