January 2002

Japan's 3rd Annual CBP® Seminar is a Success

by Grant Reid, D.C.

            Dr. Reid practiced CBP® in Lynnwood, Washington for five years before moving to Japan a little over a year ago. He graduated class salutatorian from Life Chiropractic College - West in 1983, is a Certified Chiropractic Extremity Practitioner, and prior to leaving Washington State, was a State Appointed Washington Labor & Industries Consultant. He holds licenses to practice chiropractic in both California and Washington. Dr. Reid is also currently a CBP® Instructor, and of course, our first in Japan.

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The number of chiropractors in Japan is estimated to be somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 at this time.  This makes Japan the country with the second largest number of practicing chiropractors in the world.  Compound this with the native desire of the Japanese to study and learn, and you have a fertile ground for teaching chiropractic. 

            By and large, information regarding chiropractic is slow to enter this country.  For example, a book written by an author in America starting say, for example, in 1995, may take two years to complete.  Before translating the book to Japanese, publishing companies here want to see results of sales in America.  This adds on another two years.  Now, presuming the publishing company decides they want the book, they will begin translation somewhere around five years after the author began writing it.  Having experience in this area, I can tell you that from the day translation begins, to the date of sales requires about 18 months.  Meaning, about a total of seven years from the books inception, sales will begin here. 

            This also means research, such as Harrison, et al. is for the most part, unheard of as yet.  I took it upon myself to do something about that.  Two years ago, I began writing a book explaining corrective care based on CBP®.  The book was released for sale at the end of July this year (2001).  The publisher initially decided on 2000 copies, and expected one to two years before reprinting.  Much to the publishers, as well as my surprise, 2000 copies sold out in less than three months.  This is a first in the history of this publishing company.

            I don’t attribute the sales to my name.  I am not that popular here.  What I do attribute the sales to is the cooperative efforts of the Japan Chiropractic Association, its members, and CBP®.  Doctors here know that trends in chiropractic are changing.  They know what Evidence-Based Medicine means, and they are acutely becoming aware that many methods in chiropractic are not based on anything other than a single doctor’s personal beliefs and theories.  Simply said, chiropractors here in Japan want information, and they want something that is based on solid facts.

            As a member of the Japan Chiropractic Association, and with permission from CBP® seminars, the third annual CBP® seminar was held from August 29 to September 3.  The total number of students attending was 16 Chiropractors gathered from around the entire country for a six day intensive study going from 9:00 to 9:00 every day.  This seminar is only available for members of the Japan Chiropractic Association.  This limits the number of students attending somewhat, but assures one on one instruction. 

            Chiropractors in Japan require no formal education; hence one could say they are lacking sufficient education.  But, let’s look at some facts.  Graduates of the CBP® seminar know what “Coupling Mechanism” means.  They are aware that “Segmental Subluxation” in fact does not occur.  They know that the sacroiliac joint does not subluxate, as we have been taught to believe.  They are aware of the poor reliability of motion palpation as a method of assessing subluxation; they understand mechanisms of tethering, and the physiological ramifications of global subluxation.  They know how to list subluxation based on Cartesian Coordinates.  They know and understand the physiological requirements in altering global posture, and they understand the limits of SMT as it relates to global subluxation.  And most important of all, these graduates can put curves back in necks, and they can correct global subluxations of the spine.

            How many chiropractors in America know and can do this?  The answer probably lies in how many chiropractors study and actively apply CBP® technique.  So, maybe education isn’t six years long here, but in any case, the CBP® graduates are doing what B.J. Palmer set out to do in the beginning, find, and correct vertebral subluxations.

            With the recent popularity of my new book “Chiropractic Manual” (No, I didn’t select that boring name), and with the help of CBP® seminars, et al, annual CBP® seminars may eventually become monthly.