November

Background

Back pain accounts for a significant proportion of WorkSafeBC’s injury claims and costs due to time lost from work. In terms of recommended interventions for low back pain, spinal manipulation has received international recognition.1 Compared with many other conventional therapies, manipulation is associated with better or more rapid reduction in pain and disability over time. 

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What profession might you have pursued, if not for medicine?
Kinesiology professor at a university.

Which talent would you most like to have?
To be able to speak multiple languages.

Over the last few decades, our ability to make improvements to health care delivery has relied largely on the benefits of technology. Technological advances have brought us many of the tools that physicians rely upon today, such as MRIs, fibre optic endoscopes, telehealth conferencing to bring health care to isolated areas, and greatly improved medications.