Health committee  Thank you. The Canadian Chiropractic Association appreciates the opportunity to appear before the committee. Healthy living is fundamental to our profession. The promotion of a healthy lifestyle is an important objective of chiropractic care. As primary contact health care pro

Health committee  Quite honestly, I'm unaware of a study that has done that. Indirectly, I would imagine that the proof would be in the pudding, so to speak. If the individuals adopted a healthier lifestyle, one would hope to see a drop in expense of health care. But how you would measure the outc

Health committee  Thank you for the question. You're absolutely right, chiropractors historically have spoken to wellness. It was not always initially well received, and they moved towards more specific roles as a “back doc”. However, now we're hearing our own words echoed back to us and are bein

Health committee  I can speak best to Ontario because that's where I'm from, and before being with the Canadian Chiropractic Association, I was with the Ontario one, so I was involved with it somewhat. At the moment, in Ontario, musculoskeletal is not represented on family health teams. You don't

Health committee  Not directly. There are pockets, again, in B.C., Alberta, Quebec, and Ontario. There are some in the east as well. But, again, they're pockets. They're subsidized. I think the first one that has been covered—

Health committee  Correct. We only have one.

Health committee  They contribute to the research foundation.

Health committee  I'm sorry, I don't understand your question.

Health committee  Everyone here has voiced that this will only work if it is collaborative. Particularly on any public health issue, which this is, you must be able to discuss it with the health care provider of your choice. We have to all work from the same page and the same information or else y

Health committee  Madam Chair and members of the Standing Committee on Health, Madam Clerk, and colleagues, thank you for inviting us here today to have the opportunity to be with you again. The issue of chronic disease related to aging is both serious and growing. More than 90% of adults over th

Health committee  Those were our introductory remarks. I'll be glad to answer anything in the question period.

Health committee  I'm sure John will contribute later.

Health committee  I'd like to start with an appreciation of the question. You finished your question with how could we prevent chronic disease. I'd like to first make clear that as one of the primary care practices, it would always be a collaborative approach. We've all spoken to essentially the

Health committee  I mentioned three. We have more, but one program that has been very successful has been the falls prevention program. This was developed in conjunction with Canadian Public Health. This is a program on CD and on paper, which is presented by chiropractors to long-term-care facilit

Health committee  If I may draw from personal practice, I will be brief with this. I will give you an example of a 65-year-old woman who came into my office about two years ago with general bone pain. She was also diabetic. She hadn't had a bone density test in almost ten years. We phoned up the p