News from World Spine Care
The World Spine Care Yoga Project: A Brief History and The Future of the Project - Part 2
World Spine Care Yoga Project (the YP) officially launched in 2016 with its first program offering in Botswana. Now, heading into its fifth year, the YP remains focused on continuing to meet its mission and vision.
World Spine Care: Continuing to Provide Evidence-based Care In Under Served Communities
It is always the stark juxtapositions that you are undeniably faced with in India that leave a lasting impression on me. Extravagant malls; remote rural populations without access to regular electricity. Smart businessmen travelling by train; sari-clad women carrying baskets of rice overhead walking for miles. Luxury hotels; woven mats to sleep on the floor. A bustling business district; those who cannot afford a day off work to seek medical advice.
Insight from India: an update on the World Spine Care Europe Project
Over the last year, an amazing project in Navi Mumbai, India has been set in motion. A collaboration between the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Health Science (MGMUHS) Physiotherapy department and World Spine Care is taking place. Currently set within a hospital, the Physiotherapy department has now adopted WSC protocols with the under-pinning values of sustainable, integrated, evidence-based care.
World Spine Care Yoga Project - Spring 2018 Update
Unique in the both the yoga and the NGO communities, the World Spine Care Yoga Project brings the practices of posture, breath work, and mindfulness as tools for pain management and active self-care to patients in World Spine Care clinics. This year, Co-directors Erin Moon and Barrie Risman have been hard at work expanding and sharing the work of the Yoga Project.
Multidisciplinary Health Care Clinic Donates to World Spine Care
Raising money at this time is difficult as there are many worthy charities. There is a great deal of negativity and uncertainty in the world at the moment, but I would like to focus on some positive aspects of the chiropractic profession.
I recently had the opportunity to meet someone who has been very successful in his own right but has also shared that success with a number of new graduates, giving them the chance to start in practice and to own their own practice.
GSCI Continues To Promote Evidence-Based, Sustainable Spine Care
Spinal pain is a primary cause of disability worldwide that affects approximately 1 billion people, yet no developmental help is available to reduce this burden.
World Spine Care convened the Global Spine Initiative to develop an evidence-informed, practical, and sustainable, spine health care model for communities around the world with various levels of resources.
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