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Bruce Dohner explains chiropractic (continued)
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‘‘People are not willing to
assume the responsibility
for their own health: that is
the biggest problem in my
practice. They’re too seden-
tary, they don’t get enough
exercise, they're over-
weight. Those things lead to
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more stress on the spinal
column and thus more
problems. Preventive main-
tenance is the answer. I
don’t get many calls saying
‘I'm feeling fine, but I'd like
you to check me out to make
sure.” I wish I did: then I
could help them prevent so
many of these problems.
“l wish people would
learn to utilize the health
care professionals in their
area. It can be fatal to
assume that the definition of
health is simply the removal
of symptoms. The trend
seems to be reversing
though. People do seem to
be becoming more aware of
their bodies in a whole
sense.’’
Does the stucture of the
American health care sys-
tem allow an individual to
choose the appropriate
health care method from
among all its sophisticated
technological branches?
And do doctors of all types
freely refer patients to
specialty areas for treat-
ment?
Dr. Dohner answers: ‘“‘It
is a basic premise of chiro-
practic that many factors
may lead to any given
desease. If 1 feel that a
patient needs a type of
medical treatment I can’t
provide, 1 refer him else-
where, usually to an ortho-
pedist, because those are
the kinds of problems I see
most. It would be nice if the
health care system worked
cooperatively. That’s a sore
point with me: medical
doctors say we don’t refer,
but we do refer—openly.
Sometimes they don’t refer
even in their own ranks. But
hopefully we’ll be recogniz-
ed more as a useful branch
of medicine. It looks like
we’re beginning to gain the
respect we deserve at last.”
The educational back-
ground requirements for
chiropractors is impressive:
a minimum of two years in
college with a basically pre-
medicine major and an
emphasis on the need for
courses in psychology; then
four years in an accredited
chiropractic college, with
more anatomy and phsyiol-
ogy and x-ray anaysis, and
less pathology, than medical
school.
*‘l1 graduated from Man-
heim Central High School,”
Bruce Dohner says, “I
attended Lock Haven State
and Franklin and Marshall
College and graduated from
Sherman Chiropractic Col-
lege in South Carolina.”
There are approximately
20,000 doctors of chiroprac-
tic in the U.S. and there has
been a 73% increase in
utilization of chiropractic in
the 10-year period of
1964-1974. “It’s an open
field: there’s been quite an
increase in the need for
chiropractors,’”’ Dr. Dohne1
states. ‘‘Four or five more
chiropractic colleges have
started just in the past
couple of years.”
And what about Bruce
Dohner, 27-year-old private
citizen, father of an eight-
year-old daughter, native of
Manheim? How and why did
he choose to be a chiroprac-
tor? “‘I became interested in
chiropractic as a career by
being a chiropractic
patient,”’ he says. ‘‘I had a
severe health problem as a
child and, after going the
medical doctor route and
after three years of - not
getting any better, I started
with a chiropractor and my
condition improved fast.”
August 29, 1979
Has Bruce Dohner follow-
ed his own advice and
formulated his own pre-
ventive maintenance pro-
gram? Resoundingly yes.
He’s trim and healthy. His
office bulletin board shouts
the praises of a good diet.
He lifts weights regulary, a
holdover from his high
school wrestling days. He
eats right, even chiding me
gently about sugar in my
coffee: ‘‘Have you ever tried
honey?’ And he runs three
miles three or four times a
week, on a course near his
home on Ciderpress Road
north of Manheim.
Bruce Dohner is clearly an
intelligent, medically edu-
cated, health-oriented chiro-
practic practitioner, and he
obviously and enthusiastic-
ally likes to use the tenets of
the ‘‘natural health care”
his profession promotes. He
maintains, with a disarming
grin, that his practice of
chiropractic depends ‘‘al-
most not at all’’ on his
psychological influence on
his patients (commonly
known as ‘‘bedside
manner’). ‘‘They’re scepti-
cal about chiropractic,’”’ he
says, ‘‘until they get
better.” He stops and
smiles. ‘‘Then they trust
me!’’
Marietta Senior League to meet
Wednesday, Sept. Sth, 12:30 p.m.
The Marietta Senior
League will hold their
regular monthly meeting in
the Community House on
Wednesday, September Sth,
at 12:30 o’clock.
luncheon served promptly at
12:30 o’clock. Each member
is asked to bring a covered
dish, and their own place
settings: plates, cups,
silverware, etc.
The program for the
afternoon will be a white
elephant auction. Each one
should bring one or more
items for sale. Also, come
prepared to buy some of the
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Adrian Hohenwarter, E-town Sr.,
top pianist at Liberace Foundation
Adrian Hohenwarter, 16,
a senior at Elizabethtown
Area High School, was one
of the top five pianists in the
Liberace Foundation contest
held in the North Mall,
York. Adrian competed in
the open age group.
He will compete again on
September 4th, getting a
chance at a $300 prize. The
winner of that competition
will receive a medal from
Liberace in Hershey during
his annual concert there.
Last year Adrian won a
gold certificate from Liber-
ace.
Adrian also plays violin,
30th, at
Lancaster County Historical
and banjo. He likes all forms
of music, from classical to
popular.
Adrian will play at a
recital with Sally Kibler and
Heide Csallner on August
7:30, at the
Society. The recital is free
and open to the public.
Columbia YMCA to start Co-ed
Volleyball on Tuesday, Sept. 18
The Columbia YMCA will
be starting their Co-éd
Volleyball on
September 18, 1979 and will
meet to play every Tuesday
and Thursday from 6:30 PM
Tuesday,
to 10PM.
Any individuals wishing
to join or form teams for the
Mixed Volleyball League
should contact either Cheryl
Lewis or Valerie McEwen at
684-4323 or come in to the Y
Office, 329 Chestnut St.,
Columbia (located in Amer-
ican Legion Building). Fall
registration will be open
from September 3rd thru
12th from 9AM to SPM.