This month the WFC Council has voted to endorse World Spine Care (WSC), a visionary new project led by Dr. Scott Haldeman, Chair, WFC Research Council, which has the goal of helping people in underprivileged regions of the world who suffer from health problems related to the spine. WSC will recruit volunteer health care professionals including chiropractors, physicians and physical therapists to provide core spine care. Volunteer specialists will fly in to deal with patients referred with serious spinal pathology.

WSC, which is a charitable non-profit organization registered in the USA, has multidisciplinary leadership, strong corporate support and is supported by the World Health Organization through the Bone and Joint Decade. Collaborating centers are Palmer College and the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College. BJD Liaison is Dr. Deborah Kopansky-Giles, WFC Council and CMCC, and WHO Liaison is Dr. Molly Robinson. WSC is currently completing a feasibility study for its first proposed country – Botswana.

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Haldeman Biography

Anyone truly interested in chiropractic, its history or its future will want to have this fascinating account of Scott Haldeman’s life – his challenges and triumphs growing up in South Africa as the son and grandson of chiropractors, training at Palmer College, then continuing his professional development in South Africa, Canada and the United States until being recognized internationally as a foremost authority on the conservative management of spinal pain.

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