Dr. Hambrick’s Twitterin On 2009-09-30

September 30, 2009 by drhambrick  
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Dr. Hambrick’s Twitterin On 2009-09-26

September 26, 2009 by drhambrick  
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Upper Cervical Blair Conference | Hotlanta Delivered!

September 26, 2009 by drhambrick  
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WOW, Hotlanta delivered!  Did we have a fantastic UC time at the Blair Conference? A resounding YES is the answer. The Hotel W was majestic and first class. We held our Blair Board meeting Thursday (pic 001) and you can see our esteemed president is so turned out he could be on the cover of Esquire! We added a new member to the board, UCHC Dr. Frederick Schurger of Springfield, Ill.(pic 012 with Dr. Rob Ohlssen who is on the left) We also decided to hold the 2010 Blair Conference at Life Chiropractic College West in Northern California in conjunction with other UC techniques. Expect the energy to be awesome as I anticipate a huge cloud forming over the college in the form of a brain stem!!!
 
Dr.Drew Hall (photo 002) was the MC for the program. Last year we dedicated the conference to two late and great Blair docs,….Drs. George Banitch and Weldon Muncy. This year Drew dedicated the program to me…despite the fact that I am neither great nor late!!!
 
Concurrent with the seminar program, we performed an Inter and Intra Examiner Reliability X-ray Study in which 26 doctors & students read 100 Blair protractoview films TWICE to see how the participants agreed on the atlas misalignments detected on x-ray and then to see if they agreed with their own findings. I really appreciate Dr. Todd Hubbard and Palmer student Brett Vowles (and Dr. Susan Hooper, DC, PhD) for their arduous efforts to construct and monitor the study. Of course I messed with the participant’s heads by having the first set of films show no misalignment!!!
 
While on the subject of Brett, he is about to graduate and would eventually like to set up a Blair practice in his home town of San Diego. If any of you docs in Arizona or California are interested in a top notch Blair doc as an associate, contact Brett at Bvowles1@gmail.com 
 
Dr. Dustin Whitney of Calgary, Canada was the first speaker and he wowed the audience with his cellular look at chiropractic that was so way beyond backaches that most DC’s wouldn’t even know such amazing recoveries can be had! He was dynamic, effervescent, and rocked the classroom. He didn’t even have a Canadian accent I could make fun of!!!
 
Dr. Michael Lenarz (pic 004) spoke next and did a fantastic job of stressing the importance that if you are not a successful businessperson, you will not be available to render the life changing service of UC. In pic 014 you have to decide which is the real Dr. Lenarz!!!
 
Dr. Hubbard took the main conference room and performed a Primary with the assistance of Dr. Perry Rush (pic 003) I was relegated to a room the size of an elevator for the Advanced. Not really, our room had windows with great views..I know that because that’s the direction the students were looking while I taught!!! 
 
Dr. John Hilpisch (009)gave a resounding talk telling the docs to “concentrate on atlas” and be true to Dr. Blair’s teachings. Later Danny Huffaker talked about the advantages of precise x-rays in the Blair technique and the American X-ray system. We also had Dr. Ray Drury of UCHC deliver a brief talk on “Upper Cervical in Italy” We thank Ray for allowing us to demonstrate on his Lloyd side posture table purchased from Dr. John Sidney William (pic 015 standing next to Dr. Brain Mehl) that will be shipped to Sicily next week. The table will be used by my associate Dr. Jake Hollowell and he may be surprised when he looks underneath and sees all the signatures and well wishes written on the bottom the table. Hope he doesn’t recognize my handwriting of the limerick “There once was a lady from Nantucket…..!!!

The last speaker, Dr. Kirk Eriksen, talked for two hours on many subjects. He discussed some very encouraging results of the Upper Cervical Safety and Efficacy study; talked about a multitude of conditions that have resolved with precise UC care; and added a few videos comparing Blair to Grostic…
(1) The first video showed a patient dressed as a Viking shouting out that he ‘liked’ his care from skinny necked Dr. Hilpisch but Grostic care made him stronger!  SCORE GROSTIC 1, BLAIR 0!
(2) The second video was of a bad-dancing surfer dude who happened to come across Dr. Drew Hall’s card and sought out care for his slipped SI joint (no doubt thrown out from the awkward dancing moves!) but complained of the hard neck adjustment, preferring the light Grostic correction which leveled the hips and cleared the pain quickly. SCORE GROSTIC 2, BLAIR 0!    
(3) The third video was of a very effeminate man in a pink shirt carrying around my photo kissing it and stating how much he loved me and my care. The patient did mention that he really liked the Grostic pose/setup of the doctor but still preferred Blair. FINAL SCORE, GROSTIC 2, BLAIR 1.
 
(It should be noted that all three patients were actually Dr. Eriksen, lending credence to my diagnosis that this man has a ’serious multiple personality disorder’ and society would probably be safer with him in solitary confinement!!!) Personally I think Dr. Eriksen is just jealous of the ’speed’ of a Blair adjustment. Check out Life University intern Andrea Knight (pic forest.andrea) and you will see why we have “the fastest pisiform in the West!!!”
 
As much as we wanted Dr. Eriksen to stick around after his talk (the flames at the stake were just the right height!) he had to return to a Grostic seminar on the other side of town. So I gathered about 70 doctors and students in my classroom so they could compete for 5 excellent UC posters and 4 packets of brochures kindly donated by Dr. Daniel Clark. The idea was to have a green (after the green books) tarp suspended from the ceiling and have white balloons spelling out BJ…to commemorate our leader. It was Dr. Dennis Campbell’s (pic 016) job to arrange all of this, but since he attached one of the balloons to the rear of my suit prior to my entering the large classroom packed with an audience, he was fired abruptly. I told his wife we should forget about the balloons and just put an apple on Campbell’s head and have the students aim for that. Her comment was, “I’ve got an apple in my room!” The students fired the darts away at the balloons (pic 021,020) and the final nine winners were recognized at the awards banquet. (pic 029)
 
 
 
The Award’s Banquet consisted of an excellent dinner (mostly vegetarian) which ticked off those carnivorous Montana guys Drs. Hubbard and Matz (pic 013) Two doctors were awarded BLAIR PROFICIENCY CERTIFICATION and they were Drs. Jake Hollowell and Daniel Judge (pic 023). BLAIR PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR certification was awarded to Dr. Johnny Truong. The Palmer (Iowa) students  presented me with a plaque of appreciation for many years of service to the Palmer Blair Club (pic 027) :
And finally, the BLAIR CHIROPRACTOR OF THE YEAR was the well deserved and totally surprised DR TODD HUBBARD!!!(pic 025)
 
It was a Blair Blast!!!
Take care-
Tom
P.S. I apologize for leaving out any photos or for not identifying some of the docs and students in the pics….like everything else, I’ll blame it on Dr. Campbell! Thanks so much for attending and for those who didn’t , look how much fun you missed!!!! LASTLY, ONE DOC WROTE ME AND ASKED TO BE TAKEN OFF MY MAILING LIST. IF YOU FEEL THE SAME WAY LET ME KNOW…WE UC DOCS AS A LITTLE DIFFERENT!!!

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Dr. Hambrick’s Twitterin On 2009-09-25

September 25, 2009 by drhambrick  
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Dr. Hambrick’s Twitterin On 2009-09-24

September 24, 2009 by drhambrick  
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Dr. Hambrick’s Twitterin On 2009-09-23

September 23, 2009 by drhambrick  
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Dr. Hambrick’s Twitterin On 2009-09-23

September 23, 2009 by drhambrick  
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Atlas Profilax a Dangerous Scam | Chiropractic Without a License

September 16, 2009 by drhambrick  
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Dr. Campbell will be among the many attendees at the Annual Blair Conference this Friday and Saturday in Atlanta. Attached you will see the schedule sent to me by Dr. Darren White. The calm and ever politically correct Dr. Drew Hall will MC the program and the first speaker will be Dr. Dustin Whitney. Dustin probably has the largest Blair practice in North America, will be speaking on Convicted on the Principle. ! (not bad for two years in practice!) He will be followed by author, lecturer, practice manager,… Dr. Michael Lenarz who will speak on People’s Lives Depend on your Success! Dr. Todd Hubbard and I will be giving the full technique seminar (Primary, Intermediate, & Advanced) throughout the seminar. Frank Ju will be speaking on The Future of Electronic Health Care. The very articulate and humorous Dr. John Hilpisch will be discussing Nothing But Blair! Danny Huffaker of American X-ray will speak on Blair Principle with Precision.  Author of Upper Cervical Subluxation Complex and Orthospinology texts Dr. Kirk Eriksen will share Walking the Walk, Not Just Talking the Talk. Dr. Drew Hall will host the Scholarship and Awards Ceremony.
 
Speaking of seminars, the UCHC Upper Cervical Practice and Marketing Seminar in Charlotte, NC is coming up November 6,7. On the attachment you will see that the speakers will be Drs. Reggie Gold, Ray Drury, Thad Vuagniaux, Julie Mayer Hunt, Bart Patzer, Nick Teder, Bob Peterson, JOHN HILPISCH, and Tony Palermo. Should be dynamic! They would also like to announce that: UCHC has a new classified section. CLASSIFIED SECTION: http://uchca.wordpress.com/
 
If you are in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on September 26th you may seriously want to consider attending a Wellness seminar with some very cutting edge MD’s. This info is attached and I thank Dr. Patrick Newhouse, who has a thriving UC practice with his wife Dr. Jackie in Moline,Ill, for forwarding this information.
 
A lot of us sit around can complain but do little to make changes. One doc who is not that way is Dr. Mindy Drake. Last week I wrote about the Atlasprofilax people (laypersons making makeshift Upper Cervical manipulations…claiming it isn’t chiropractic, but borrowing our literature, techniques, philosophy,..) ….makes you think whether 8 plus years of college education is really needed! I’ve attached her whole e-mail but here is a snippet of what this woman of action did to help protect UC:
Since I just started practice in Santa Monica, I was horrified to discover that this acupuncturist, Shahar Ranan is promoting the atlas profilax garbage just down the street. While he may have a  grasp on the power of the upper cervical area, his methods are barbaric and damaging, and do very poor service to our central message of specific upper cervical adjustments, not to mention he has no business practicing chiropractic in any form. Luckily, he has already been busted and banned by the state of Oregon for practicing chiropractic without a license; I have attached the report of the proceedings of the matter before the state board in Oregon. These points may be useful for any specific upper cervical doctor who would like to notify his or her state board of such a practitioner who is delivering this atlas profilax treatment in their state. Thank you so much for your action Dr. Drake!!!

 
Dr. Ian Bulow wrote me the following: Hey doc! I wanted to let people know that I still have two tables for sale! I have a Zenith Rock side posture table and a Zenith hi-lo. I have also LOWERED THE ASKING PRICE!!!  Folks can contact me by e-mail at ianbulowdc@gmail.com ..
 
Also, Dr.Ted Scott wrote me this: I have a Blair headclamps and a cervical chair for sale.  Would you please list it in your web page.  Anyone interested can contact me at the following phone numbers or e-mailI would be happy to provide pictures. email tjscott21@comcast.net  cell # 801-589-7733 anytime off #   801-546-4500 between 11 – 12 noon MST, home # 801-544-2306 7 am – 8;30 am & after 6;30 pm MST
 
OK, I guess I’ve been too serious lately, so enjoy the attached joke:

A lady goes to her priest one day and tells him,

‘Father, I have a problem. I have two female parrots,

But they only know how to say one thing.’

‘What do they say?’ the priest inquired.

They say, ‘Hi, we’re hookers! Do you want to have some fun?’

‘That’s obscene!’ the priest exclaimed,

Then he thought for a moment.

‘You know,’ he said,

‘I may have a solution to your problem. I have two male talking parrots,

which I have taught to pray and read the Bible. Bring your two parrots over

to my house, And we’ll put them in the cage with Francis and Peter.

My parrots can teach your parrots to praise and worship,

And your parrots are sure to stop saying . . That phrase . . In no time.’

‘Thank you,’ the woman responded, ‘this may very well be the solution.’

The next day, She brought her female parrots to the priest’s house.

As he ushered her in, She saw that his two male parrots

were inside their cage holding rosary beads and praying.

Impressed, She walked over and placed her parrots in with them.

After a few minutes, The female parrots cried out in unison:

Hi, we’re hookers! Do you want to have some fun?’ There was stunned silence.

Shocked, One male parrot looked over at the other male parrot

And exclaimed, ‘Put the beads away, Frank. Our prayers have been answered!

 

Take care-

Tom

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Dr. Hambrick’s Twitterin On 2009-09-15

September 15, 2009 by drhambrick  
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Dr. Hambrick’s Twitterin On 2009-09-14

September 14, 2009 by drhambrick  
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