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
