For chiropractors practicing today, Dr. Warren Hammer’s legacy is particularly visible in several areas that have become familiar components of modern musculoskeletal care: his early work with the Graston Technique and instrument-assisted soft-tissue mobilization; his extensive writing and teaching on functional soft-tissue examination and treatment; his role in bringing fascial manipulation to U.S. clinicians; and his decades spent educating chiropractors and other health professionals.
News in Brief
DC Helps Athletes Compete for Olympic Dream
Sports DC and Texas Chiropractic College faculty member, Dr. Todd Riddle, is helping athletes compete for their Olympic dream. Most recently, he accompanied the Australian bobsleigh and skeleton teams to World Cup competitions in Altenberg and Winterberg, Germany, in advance of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China. In 2018, Dr. Riddle was team DC for the Nigerian Women's Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation at the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
A Call for Abstracts
The World Federation of Chiropractic has announced a call for abstracts in advance of the November 2022 WFC-ACC Global Education Conference, hosted by Logan University. "Submitted material should be pertinent to teaching, learning, assessment, evaluation, faculty development, governance, or any area of education." For complete guidelines, visit www.wfc.org/educonf2022.
Following a national search, Life University has named Dr. Michael Clusserath dean of the College of Chiropractic, and Dr. Cathy Faust dean of the College of Graduate and Undergraduate Studies. Dr. Clusserath has been with Life U. since 2012; Dr. Faust has more than 23 years with the university. The two educators assumed their respective new positions effective Jan. 3, 2022.