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July 2006, Vol. 16, No. 3
Table of Contents
Autism and Glutathione • CBP® Nonprofit has 24 publications in 12 months • CBP® Research Presented at the International Spine Conference in Norway • CBP® to File Lawsuit Against Quackwatch • CCE Weathers the Storm • Chiropractic Culture • Dr Don Harrison is ICA's Chiropractor of the Year • Dr Jim Gudgel to Co-Instruct With Neuromechanical Innovations • Dr Deed Harrison Speaks at Palmer West • Experimental or Medical Necessity • Fine Tune Patient Communication • From Screening to the Value of Proper Posture • ICA at the Table • ICA's Newly Elected Board Members • Instrument Adjusting's Mechanical Advantage • It's Don's Opinion • Letters to the Editor • My New Whiplash Text is Available • Patient Expectation and Retention • Principles, Ethics and Other Bygone Ideals • Problematic Decision Spectrum • Research Corner • Triano and CCGPP's Will Give You Six Visits
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Dr Jim Gudgel to Co-Instruct With Neuromechanical Innovations
All New Instrument Adjusting &
Functional Spinal Rehab Seminars Debut This Fall
PHOENIX, Arizona — Dr. Chris Colloca, president of Phoenix based Neuromechanical Innovations (NMI), recently announced that Dr. Jim Gudgel will be co-instructing at their 21st Century Chiropractic Training seminars beginning this fall. Dr. Gudgel is a magna cum laude graduate of Logan College of Chiropractic, prior to which he received a degree in Physical Therapy from the University of Oklahoma. He currently maintains a high-volume chiropractic practice in Redwood Falls, MN that has averaged over 500 patient visits a week for the past several decades.
With his diverse background in chiropractic and physical therapy, Dr. Gudgel brings over twenty years of clinical and teaching experience to NMI seminars. A favorite instructor among seminar attendees, Dr. Gudgel gained notoriety as a lead platform instructor for Activator Methods International, Ltd. over the past twenty years. He also is a contributing editor of Activator Methods Chiropractic Technique (Mosby Year-Book, Inc., 1997). “Anyone who has ever seen Dr. Gudgel adjust knows that he’s the best instrument adjuster out there, and all those who’ve studied under him have raved about what they’ve learned,” said Colloca. Dr. Gudgel joins NMI’s faculty of instructors, including Dr. Terry Peterson, past president of the Arizona Chiropractic Association, and former Board member the Arizona Board of Chiropractic Examiners and the National Institute of Chiropractic Research.
Dr. Gudgel will join the NMI team to teach an all new Instrument Adjusting and Functional Spinal Rehab Symposium debuting this fall. NMI has combined condition- and functional-based chiropractic adjusting protocols comprising the qualitative base of its Instrument Adjusting Technique. “Our Instrument Adjusting course is designed to quickly point you to the patient’s problem and speed you up with new combinations of segmental contact points and vectors to optimize results,” said Peterson. “Our functional-based adjusting technique targets specific joints and muscle groups that are responsible for altered function utilizing pre-post range of motion and strength assessments that aren’t like anything you’ve probably seen before,” Colloca added.
Our new functional spinal rehab program “de-mystifies spinal rehabilitation by training clinicians on what works and what doesn’t and why,” says Gudgel. The symposium introduces the subluxation’s relationship to spinal stability and the failure of adjustments to “hold.” Safe and damaging levels of compressive forces are presented along with segmental control of spinal stability, neural sub-system failure and ‘feed-forward’ mechanism concepts that are all substantiated by research. Targeting specific muscle layers in spinal rehabilitation, new functional assessments, exercises, designing and prescribing the procedures and improving patient compliance are further illustrated in this comprehensive course.
Looking to the future, currently, NMI’s Research and Development team are finishing a computerized spinal analysis and adjusting technique for the quantitative aspects of the Instrument Adjusting Technique. Dr. Tony Keller, Director of Research at the Florida Othopaedic Institute’s Musculoskeletal Research Foundation, spearheads the effort. Drs. Colloca and Keller have been collaborating for over ten years on various projects that have produced the Impulse Adjusting Instrument® and its latest advancement, Impulse Auto-Sense®, which detects spinal motions during the adjustment. Together, they have co-authored over 30 scientific publications.
For more information on Neuromechanical Innovations seminars and products visit www.neuromechanical.com or call toll-free 888-294-4750.
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