Foot Orthotics and Chiropractic care in Temple Hills, MD

For decades, Foot Levelers has enthusiastically

supported and promoted chiropractic research.

Twenty-two years ago in our Success Express

magazine, we announced the commitment of a

quarter of a million dollars to fund the Greenawalt

Chair for Research at Northwestern College of

Chiropractic (now Northwestern Health Sciences

University).1 By that time Foot Levelers was

already an established financial backer of the

Foundation for Chiropractic Education and

Research (FCER), and we encouraged the readers

of our magazine—as well as other chiropractic

suppliers—to join us in giving to the profession’s

“primary source of financial support for chiropractic

research and postdoctoral research training of

doctors of chiropractic.”2-4

In the late 1990s, Foot Levelers teamed up with

New York Chiropractic College to establish “the

nation’s first gait research center in a chiropractic

setting” at NYCC’s Seneca Falls campus.5

Heeding Dr. Reed Phillips’ call to “be supportive

of chiropractic research in any way possible,”6

the partnership between Foot Levelers and NYCC

“sparked research that may reveal how the body’s

gait can disrupt chiropractic adjustments, which

could lead to the identification of ways an

adjustment can best be preserved, such as

through the use of orthotics.”7

This research booklet

is proof that “Foot Levelers’ products are a

beneficial adjunct to chiropractic care.”8 Here is

peer-reviewed research by some of the finest

academicians in the chiropractic profession,

including work done at NYCC’s Biomechanics/

Gait Research Laboratory in Seneca Falls.

The future of chiropractic research is limited only

by the support it receives from those who form

the chiropractic community of professionals,

staff, and suppliers. Foot Levelers pledges to

continue sponsoring and promoting chiropractic

research, and to share the benefits of that

research with our Partners In Progress.

References

1. [No author]. Chair for research announced. Success Express 1985; 9(2):59.

2. Rossman E. FCER’s role in chiropractic research. Success Express 1985;

9(3):57-61.

3. [No author]. Are your suppliers supporting chiropractic research? Success

Express 1985; 9(4):55-59.

4. [No author]. Chiropractic research…key to the future. Success Express

1988;12(1):45-47.

5. [No author]. NYCC and Foot Levelers team up to establish gait research

program. Success Express 1998; 18(3):28.

6. Phillips RB. A lesson in history: the need for research. Success Express

1988; 12(1):25-29.

7. [No author]. Foot Levelers gait research program is helping advance field

of chiropractic. Success Express 2000; 20(2):11.

8. [No author]. ACC conference highlights orthotics research. Success

Express 2004; 24(3):5.

Aekta Erry, D.C.

Chiroprator, Temple Hills, MD