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From: Dr. Margolies.. 8-27-21
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Postings this week:
Associate position available in his busy practice in Calhoun, Georgia .. DC is looking for a flat bench therapy table in metro Atlanta .. DC is looking for a used Zenith Hi-Lo table and Aqua Massage Table .. Holistic Health Practitioner looking to partner or rent space in metro Atlanta
E-mail message this week .. Prevent Future Patients
It’s time now to focus on a spinal crisis in the making. Dentists used fluoride as a means to prevent future cavities and whether the theory and health benefits were sound, they placed their profession and prevention in the same sentence. Furthermore, they created an awareness for family care, especially children. In one promotion they were eliminating their cavity eradication business for the sake of renewed interest in dental care and dentists. Seems, it didn’t hurt their business in the short or long run.
Even with areas of the country finding the Delta variant roaring its ugly head, school are open either in person or virtual. As I mentioned in a recent e-mail book bags continue to plague kids creating an opportunity for us to educate and eradicate potential subluxations and future patients. Chiropractic has a great opportunity to be vocal and in the forefront of their community school book bag crisis. Yes, this is old news but rather then parents, teachers and book publishers taking heed of the message, the bags get bigger, some schools prohibit bags with wheels and the unrelenting wear and tear of the young spine does not abate. Research is easy to find with any search engine while data clearly shows that a crisis looms each school year and more awareness needs to be applied. So, what are you waiting for, this is a golden opportunity to bring new patients to your office, expand awareness of chiropractic as a proactive healthcare provider and you as a caring community advocate. It also allows you increased community credibility when invited to PTA meetings, social gatherings or church programs to discuss this crisis and hopefully evaluate and teach parents and kids to be spine conscious and how continued spinal and physical stress not only invites pain but also visceral dysfunction.
Although you may find your community covid sensitive and super cautious with in person meetings, you can still create zoom awareness after reaching out to PTA or school board members. Also reach out to newspaper publishers and be ready with an article outlining the spinal and wellness concerns with enough references to back your data up. Once you reach community awareness, you will be the go to office each school year and with continued health oriented topics you will be the leader within your community.
This is your opportunity to earn the trust of your community taking the high road in this effort to prevent future chiropractic patients. Watching kids run to school buses flopping books this way and that way in overstocked book bags as if they were on their way in a covert military mission, is a sight to see. If you were able to record this and play it back in slow motion revealing the gross overstretching of the neck during a whiplash type injury to a PTA or other group of concerned parents and educators, and most important to your patients, the oohs and ahhs will be deafening. It would show clearly the push and pulls on delicate cervical and thoracic spines and the pounding on the lumbar region while they dashed to their destinations. Worse yet is the one sided held bags that drag down the brachial plexus causing brachial palsy a diagnostic marker pediatricians are finding more readily and emergency room visits that are becoming more common due to book bag distress. Don’t believe me, fine, do your own research and search under book bag injuries and other like phrases and tell me there is no crisis and you, the structural scientist concerned with spinal balance, posture and neurological integrity is not the professional to be in the forefront of concern.
Do your homework, write to the editor of your local papers, send e-mail or snail mail newsletters of concern to your patients and community and get the word out. Statistics and how to can be found on the net and within the ACA, ICA and many state association websites. In fact, your state district associations should band together and being a campaign of awareness now.
What are you waiting for .. next year
This was within my July 26, 2021 Patient and Community E-mail Newsletter:
Dangers of Student Book Bag:
According to a recent estimate, 96 percent of children in school are carrying way too much on their backs. In fact, 5,000 children every year go to the emergency department for backpack injuries. And, more than 14,000 children are treated yearly for related problems. Dec 23, 2020
https://archive.jsonline.com/news/health/beware-of-backpacks-14000-children-treated-yearly-for-injuries-b9984635z1-222888831.html/
www.spineuniverse.com/wellness/packing-pain-study-reveals-new-insights-about-backpack-pain
www.sutterhealth.org/health/childrens-health/how-heavy-is-too-heavy-for-a-childs-backpack
www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/health/backpack-safety/index.html
https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/backpack.html
https://source.wustl.edu/2004/09/heavy-backpacks-cause-thousands-of-injuries-to-children-each-year/
How to Pack a Student Backpack:
www.businessinsider.com/best-backpack-students#how-to-pack-a-backpack-8
Best Student Backpack Reviews:
www.businessinsider.com/best-backpack-students
Have A Great Day
Joel E. Margolies, DC
4910 Lavista Road
Tucker (metro Atlanta), Georgia 30084
770-491-3639
www.familychirocenter.net
Life College graduate 1978, use the Activator, Impulse, SOT, Diversified, Cox Lumbar Distraction, Ulan NRT, Rapid Release, Standard Process Nutrition, Cold Laser Therapy with Multi Radiance
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