Chiropractic BioPhysics® College Course Updates
Monday, July 12, 2010 at 7:09AM 
Cindy Boyd, DC Life Chiropractic College West
CBP® at Life Chiropractic College West (LCCW) is in full swing! Currently CBP is taught in two parts. CBP Technique I is core curriculum with an average of 30 students per quarter and Advanced CBP II is an elective with 10 students on average. I am finishing up my first year of teaching both classes and am starting to get a grasp on all of the changes that have occurred over the last year, including the responsibility of running a busy CBP practice in Alameda, CA while implementing new and exciting things related to my classes at LCCW.
As a graduate of LCCW and a previous CBP club president, it brings me great joy to witness the evolution of the technique in the Chiropractic College setting. Many of us worked tirelessly for many years to make this all possible. Not only is CBP core at this point, but it is readily accepted by the students and clinic staff. Students have the ability to practice CBP with ease in the clinic setting due to fabulous clinic directors, and the new traction and adjusting equipment that has been donated over the past year. Since the 2009 CBP Annual in Scottsdale Arizona, the school has received many generous donations including: All new CBP teaching materials for the classroom, new CBP posters for the clinic, Denneroll™ home traction devices, PostureRay®, 4 Impulse® Instruments, IMPAC® brand adjusting tools, and a new Pope traction unit. Dr. Deed has donated the Denneroll home traction device to EVERY student in my class, and I have been able to give students class notes on CD’s similar to the CBP seminar notes. Class lectures are taught with new and improved Power Point presentations which are closely aligned with CBP seminar standards.
Over the next year, I will continue to improve the class and work with Dr. Kerri Duggins to improve the systems in the school clinic for CBP Technique applications. I hope you all will continue to support CBP Non-profit and donate to Life Chiropractic College West in the name of CBP.
Don Meyer, DC Cleveland Los Angeles
My first class has only five students this semester (May 2010); but the students have great enthusiasm for Chiropractic BioPhysics (CBP) technique. The students have been learning about the Harrison Spinal Model, how to read and list posture, and marking/measuring x-rays. They have also been improving each other’s abnormal posture with Mirror Image® Drop Table Adjusting in the Lab portion. I have been told that the students are enjoying the opportunity to learn CBP.
Jean-Guy Daigneault, DC UQTR
This past March I received a phone call from Dr. Deed Harrison to see if I would be interested in teaching a basic CBP course at the University of Trois-Riviere in Quebec , Canada. Without hesitation, my answer was yes. I thought it would be a privilege to help further advance the basic knowledge of Chiropractic BioPhysics in the French speaking province of Quebec. The course was given thru the Chiropractic technique department. There were 20 students that registered for the class and it was very well received. The class was a seven credit hour basic introductory course. I covered postural analysis, mirror image adjusting as well as mirror image exercises. We also covered the Harrison spinal model and an introduction to cervical traction. Now, I’m very excited to announce that the college would like me to return for another semester CBP Technique course! This time around we are expecting greater interest with approximately fifty students to register.
Abe Cardwell, DC Life Chiropractic College Marrietta, GA
Here at Life in GA, we are offering the Introduction to CBP class as an elective for upper class students, 10th quarter and above. The class is continuously filled to capacity; around 50 students each quarter. I am considering adding another lab section in order to open the class up to greater numbers. My hopeful objective is to have an Intro to CBP added into the core curriculum, much earlier in the curriculum, with an advanced class added as an elective; similar to how Life West CBP courses are offered.
If CBP can be added to the core curriculum, the technique will be included in the clinical experience, as well. At present, the young student docs cannot practice CBP in the clinic. They are somewhat frustrated in this regard, as you can imagine. There is a curriculum review taking place this year, and I am hopeful we will be added to core curriculum as part of this process. The students and many faculty are very supportive of the new data, and very grateful for the good work CBP has done to help us be better Chiropractors. I feel it is just a matter of time, patience, good communication, and open mindedness. All in all, things are going very well here.