Get Your Energy Flowing

How can you get your energy flowing? One great way is to get outdoors and join other fitness-minded fellows and gals for the 1st Kiwanis Spring K Classic on Saturday, March 26th. You can be a walker, a jogger or a competitive runner in the 5K or 10K run. You can bring your little ones to participate in the free 1 mile fun run. Leading Edge Sport and Spine will be manning the Aid Station with exercise mats and stretching devices for you to warm-up, first aid, if you get hurt, and a Thumper Foot Massager to ease your feet at the end of the run. The run meets at Roswell High School. Your registration of $20 pre-race or $25 race-day supports Kiwanis charitable projects for youth, seniors and the environment. Stop by our office for a registration form or download one on the website http://www.springkclassic.com/. Be the 10th person to bring your registration form to our office on or before Saturday, March 19th at Noon (we will be open) and you will receive a Limited Edition Leading Edge Sport and Spine Sports Cap.

Protecting Patients and their Chiropractors in Georgia

There is a saying, "All it takes to let Evil triumph is enough good people doing nothing." There are those in Georgia who would like to see chiropractic patients and their chiropractors lose access to care, lose reimbursement for care and further limit the scope of practice. Insurance companies, medical associations and those who disparage governmental regulation are among those forces who would like to see chiropractic wither on the vine. I am not one to sit by idly and let my patients face discrimination because they have chosen to use chiropractic instead of drugs and surgery.

Last week I spent Thursday morning, along with other Doctors of Chiropractic, lobbying our legislators to support a pro-chiropractic bill in the Georgia Senate. The bill would limit chiropractic adjustments, chiropractic manipulation and chiropractic services to only a licensed Doctor of Chiropractic. This would prevent HMO's from tricking citizens into signing up for health plans that stated that "chiropractic" was included in the plan, and then having the "chiropractic" services being supplied by someone who was not a licensed Doctor of Chiropractic. I meet with Senator John Albers and stopped off at the office of Senator Judson Hill to urge them to support this bill, and protect chiropractic patients and their chiropractic doctors. I believe it takes more than good intentions, it takes action on those intentions to make Good triumph over Evil.