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This is a list of people in chiropractic, comprised of chiropractors and other people who have been notably connected with the profession. Many are important to the development or practice of chiropractic; they do not necessarily have DC degrees. Template:CompactTOC8

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  • Franco Columbu, DC: a famous body-builder and friend of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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  • Irving Dardik, MD: As Chairman of the US Olympic Sports Medicine Committee in 1979, he arranged for the first DC to go to the Olympic Games as an official Team Doctor.

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  • Scott Haldeman, MD, DC, PhD: chief editor of the textbook "Principles and Practice of Chiropractic". Chairman of the Research Council of the World Federation of Chiropractic. Together with Dr David Cassidy, performed an extensive study of chiropractic cervical adjustments and stroke, and proved that the incidence of stroke in DC practice is equal to incident in medical practice.[3]
  • Tom Hyde, DC - The Florida Chiropractor who was the 1st Doctor of Chiropractic to be invited to the US Olympic Training center in Colorado Springs, and was Doctor for Team USA at the Pan Am Games in Indianapolis, IN in 1987.

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  • W. Kirkaldy-Willis, MD: invited chiropractic doctor residents to be trained at the Canadian hospital he worked at.[5]
  • Tedd Koren, DC, was publicly attacked by anti-chiropractic forces in a major court case in the Pennsylvania Courts.

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  • Jim Pankiw, DC: former member of Parliament, Canada
  • Leroy Perry, DC: perhaps the first Doctor of Chiropractic to go to the Olympic Games as an official team doctor. He first attended the 1976 Olympic Games as a Doctor for Antigua, [6] then in in Lake Placid in 1980 as a Doctor for the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation team; again in Los Angeles in 1984, variously representing Italy, Venezuela and the French Bobsled Team and finally, after the breakup of the USSR, he went to the Summer Games in Barcelona as a member of the Russian Olympic medical team. [7]

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  • Mike Reed, DC: Team Doctor, US Olympic Team, Beijing, 2008, and Medical Director , team USA, Vancouver 2010.

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  • Raymond Sandoz, a Swiss chiropractor who greatly advanced the chiropractic discipline in Switzerland. The University of Switzerland now has a chiropractic program.[8]

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  • Chester Wilk, DC: initiated a law suit against the American Medical Association (Wilk v. American Medical Association), alleging their concerted effort to contain and eliminate the chiropractic profession. The law suit lasted five years, but was judged in favor of the chiropractic profession on September 25, 1987.[11]

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References

  1. ↑ Staff: "World Federation of Chiropractic Meets in Geneva", Dynamic Chiropractic, Vol. 08, Issue 19, September 12, 1990 [1]
  2. ↑ Editor: "Filippines", FICS News, June, 2009, Pgs 10-11 [2]
  3. ↑ Keating, J (December 20, 1991). "The JMPT: Conception, Birth & Early Years". Dynamic Chiropractic. 09 (26).
  4. ↑ Keating, J (March 9, 1998). "The JMPT: Conception, Birth & Early Years". Dynamic Chiropractic. 16 (6).
  5. ↑ Wilk, C: "An Open Message to Patients, Legislators, and the Media", Dynamic Chiropractic, Vol. 11, Issue 06, March 12, 1993 [3]
  6. ↑ IAOCO site [4]
  7. ↑ Editorial Staff: "USSR Olympic Team Names Leroy Perry Jr., D.C., Official Doctor", Dynamic Chiropractic, Vol. 09, Issue 19, Sept 13, 1991 [5]
  8. ↑ Rosner, A: "Cavitation Emptor: Tracking the Holy Grail of Manipulation", Dynamic Chiropractic, Vol. 22, Issue 19, September 13, 2004 [6]
  9. ↑ NCMIC website [7]
  10. ↑ Sportelli, L: "Introduction to Chiropractic", Practicemakers Products Inc., 2000, [ISBN-10: 0970383908]
  11. ↑ Staff. "The Chiropractic Antitrust Suit Wilk, et al vs. the AMA, et al". ICA Online Journal.

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