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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1976)
By NICK GALLO Of the Emerald medicine" is redefining illness. It takes the scalpel out of the hands of the doctors and treats the human being as a complete body-mind system. Springtime:... tennis elbow... runner's knee . .. twisted ankles. Traditional medicine blames muscle strain. But Dr. Alan Bear dall, a chiropractic physician who muscles to reveal structural im balances. “There is no one here without structural defects,” Beardall told his audience. “Muscles are made Kinesiology: It may sound complex, but it might cure your ills Got a headache? Take an aspi rin. Still there? Take two. That might be the Western ap proach to medicine. It implies faith in specialists and an almost blind faith in drugs. But something called “holistic The Division of Continuing Education is sponsoring a sym posium on non-traditional healing methods this spring. Eleven lec tures, some with workshops, rep resent various disciplines of the healing arts. spoke at the University Thursday night for the symposium's first session, said that is the symptom, not the cause. Beardall's expertise is in the field of health and body language called kinesiology. Applied kinesioloav involves the testinn of TENNIS SEASON IS HERE ♦CUP THESE MONEY-SAVING COUPONS^ COUPON I I i»3 i I 0 Spalding Tennis Balls I $■1 99 reg. 2.89 Xtra Duty White or Yellow Good through April 10, 1976 I I BOOKSTORE COUPON FREE TENNIS BALLS Spalding xtra duty can of 3 With purchase of ANY TENNIS RACKET (except sale rackets) I I I Good through April 10, 19/b BOOKSTORE “1776” RACKET CASE 67-1216.Reg. $12.00 Smart looking eye catching bright wet-look Red, White and Blue case. 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Any or all of these have an ef fect on the way a person feels, and corrective action can be im mediate, according to Beardall. “The body does not lie,” he said. "When the doctor can't find anything wrong with a patient who is pointing to where it hurts, the problem, I suspect, is with the doctor s diagnosis." Selecting people out of the au dience who had shoulders tilted one way or arms that swung too far forward, Beardall demon strated his treatment. Each mus cle is linked to an organ function. By applying pressure to certain areas, he increased nerve supply or flushed out lymphatic pockets. Beardall is a runner as well as a physician. He broke the national records for the 35-year old age bracket in the one and two-mile events two years ago. It is with athletic injuries that kinesiology is making waves, he said. "These injuries are a reflection of imbalance. You have to think cause and effect — cortisone won't do that," he said. "The body is a human antenna. You have to look into structure, or body chemistry, even psychological reasons to understand it." Beardall said his most impor tant research right now concerns multiple sclerosis. "That disease is a regenerative one, one where the patient keeps going downhill until death," he said. "I think we can stop that process and stabilize it, but as yet we can't turn it around.” Of the remaining series of lecture-workshops, many relate more directly to preventative medicine — fighting sickness by staying well. "Western medicine says you must get sick before you can get well,” said Jim Swan, a coor dinator of the symposium. "But in ancient China doctors were paid when people were well. Payments stopped when a person became sick." Beardall added, "The state of well-being is not an accident but an intelligent action." Topics to come include yoga, nutrition, meditation, psycho therapy and natural childbirth. ‘‘We've tned to bring in leading experts in these fields," said Swan. “Rather than convert peo ple we want a forum where we can bnng together a healing commun ity. For instance, we have in Dr Leung, the first licensed acupunc tunst in the U S." Another lecture will deal with holistic medicine and the law "There is no regulation, nor pro tection for these people right now," said Swan. "The legal sys tem hasn't figured out how to handle them." The collective unity of these disciplines aims to put people in closer touch with themselves Its consequences could mean that the individual has a greater re sponsibility to stay healthy be cause disease is a result of our lifestyle. The Chinese call it tzu-li keng-sheng — regeneration through one's own efforts. For further information, contact the Division of Continuing Educa tion at 686-4231. 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