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General Membership Meeting and annual Continuing Education Seminar 2010 

Location: Valencia Spain

Topics:
Small Animal Rehabilitation (with some overlap into the equine world) with Dr Darryl Millis
Conformational & stance changes in equine chiropractic patient with Jose M. Gomez Garcia
18 CE Hours

Application Form
To register for the annual general meeting and/or the continuing education seminar please use this application form.

Guest Lecturers:

Dr. Darryl Millis
She earned his D.V.M with Distinction from New York State College of Veterinary Medicine Cornell University after receiving his Bachelors from Cornell and his Masters from the University of Florida. After receiving his D.V.M., Dr. Millis completed a small animal internship and surgery residency at Michigan State University. Presently an Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Tennessee - Knoxville, he also serves as the Surgery Section Head, Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences. Dr. Millis is also board certified as a Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Surgeons.

While fulfilling his duties at the University of Tennessee, Dr. Millis also finds time to serve as a member of the Board of Directors for the Veterinary Orthopedic Society. In addition, he was 2001 Session Chair of the Postoperative Rehabilitation, 11th Annual ACVS Symposium, in Chicago, Il and served as the 2000 Orthopedic Chair for the 10th Annual ACVS Symposium held in Washington, D.C. Dr. Millis has been conducting research since 1985 and has been published in numerous journals including Veterinary Surgery and the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
Dr Millis is lecturing for the IVCA AGM on rehabilitation of the small animal, post operative, post injury, and chronic diseases. Many of the techniques he is teaching us is cutting edge technology, alongside lots of hands-on methods, with some overlap into the equine world. There will be an opportunity to see demonstrations of diagnostics and specific prescriptive rehabilitation, depending on the live cases, plus valuable insight into other common cases.

Jose M. Gomez Garcia
He was qualified as vet in Cordoba Veterinary School (Spain) in 1991, and as farrier in 1997, he is IVAS certified from 2005, and AC (IAVC) from 2006. Since 2006 he has worked full time as equine chiropractor in the south east of England. His knowledge as vet, Farrier and Equine Chiropractor gives him quite different perspectives from his contemporaries. His concern about horse’s back made him study in depth what affect the saddle has on the horse’s back. He has developed different diagnosis and treatment techniques that he uses in daily practice.

Primarily, Sundays lecture will be about "conformational and stance changes in the equine chiropractic patient" and "diagnosis by palpation of sacrum base subluxation". This will be both theory and practical sessions.
 

Schedule of Lectures:
Friday 2pm - 6pm
Canine and Horse Rehabilitation

Saturday 9am - 5pm
Canine and Horse Rehabilitation

Saturday 5.30pm - IVCA AGM

Saturday 8pm - IVCA Dinner (venue to be confirmed and paid together with the seminar fee)

Sunday 9am - 2pm
Conformational and stance changes in Equine patient

The Lectures and IVCA AGM will be held at Avanza RV - address below,
IVCA and the practical equine session will be at El Puig, Valencia, address below.

There is a Holiday Inn - Valencia within 400 yards from the lecture venue, and we have organized a preferential room rate from 18th of November to 21st November 2010 at € 42 plus VAT per Pers. and night. This is to include bed and breakfast. Details of the hotel are found below. Please make sure that you say you are with IVCA when you book your hotel as you will not get special rates, and it cannot be changed after booking.

The hotel is max 25 minutes drive from the airport, and a taxi can be booked with the hotel to pick you up from the airport for approx 18 euro. It is located approx 400 yards from the rehab centre, and approx 2km into centre of Valencia.

The IVCA have decided to organize a bus for the Sunday practical lectures, as the stables are a little way from the lecture venue. Therefore this bus will take its occupants back to the airport for approx 3pm on the Sunday. If you would like to take advantage of this bus then please indicate on the booking form. Please note if your plane is leaving before 4.30pm on the Sunday, then we strongly suggest that you find your own way to the airport to ensure you are there on time.

Lecture Venue:
Avanza RV
Calle de Juan Ramón Jiménez , 102 B.
VALENCIA
cp: 46206
+34963339569

Horse Venue - Sunday only:
Aina Tamarit Rodrigo
Cami La Tanca
46540 El Puig
Valencia
+34630811263

Hotel:
Holiday Inn
Avenida Ausias March 99
Valencia
46013
Spain
Tel: 0034963063000
www.hiexpress.com search for Valencia / St Luis

IVCA Dinner
This year we are holding a supper on the Saturday evening (venue to be confirmed). If you DO want to attend then please let us know with your application form. The cost of the dinner will be 25 €. If you would like to attend the dinner, please state whether you are a vegetarian on the application form.

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Continuing Education dates 2010

The Thoracolumbar Region’s Influence on Biomechanics, Degenerative Spine and Disc Diseases, Respiratory Conditions and the ‘Sympathetic Reflex’.

Friday Noon until Sunday at 1 pm, October 8 - 10, 2010

This course emphasizes the overall influence of the Thoracolumbar region. Proper function of this region effects many important functions, from the generation of energy for movement to the neurological control of the ‘sympathetic reflex’; fight or flight!

Also That Weekend, Thursday and Friday, October 7- 8, 2010, don’t Miss Cranialsacral Therapies with Emphasis on Sacro Occipital Technic (SOT).

Classes Taught by Dr Dennis Eschbach (E), Dr. Heidi Bockhold (B), Dr. Jean Thompson (T) and Dr. Lisa Busko (B). This Course is Approved by the Kansas Board of Regents.

Application has been made to the AVCA and IVCA for 21 Hours of Continuing Education Credits.

For further information please contact Options for animals!

 

Parieto-viscero-cranielle Integration

Instructor: Robert p, Humanosteopath

Sep. 24th. - 26th.  2010
For further Informations visit www.tao-equilibre.de

Chiropractic Research for the Animal Chiropractic Clinician

Organised by the Research Committee of the IVCA
This seminar is designed to give an overview of research and engage clinicians in the research process.

Friday Sep. 24th (9:00am) - Sunday 26.th (1:00pm)  2010
Location: Hamburg , IBIS Hotel Alster Centrum

3. International Symposium of Veterinary Chiropractic - "Münchner Runde"

September 30th - October 1st, 2010 - Holzhausen, (Munich) Germany

Elisabeth Albescu and Wolfgang Mayrhofer will host the 3rd International Symposium for Veterinary Chiropractic Techniques on September 30th and October 1st at the Gasthof Zum Dammerbauer, Holzhausen/Munich, Germany, in collaboration with Dr. Heidi Bockhold D.C., Dr. Dennis Eschbach D.C. from Options for Animals (U.S.A.)
Maintaining last years concept of discussing frequently asked questions we would like to sincerely invite you to our annual symposium.
The symposium will again provide the opportunity to discuss and practice your most common difficulties on chiropractic techniques of small animals and horses.
One focus at this third international meeting will be on your questions in diagnosing and treating your animal patients!
Please send us 3 questions dealing with the most common problems in your daily chiropractic practice in order of importance for you together with your registration form. We will put every first question (or second question in case of duplicity) on a
catalogue, which is sent back to you 4 weeks before the symposium.

Like last year we would like you to prepare answers for all of the questions on the catalogue concerning to your personal experiences to participate in the following discussions.

This year we want to put even more emphasis on your experience as animal chiropractors. So please do not be shy and sign up for presenting cases, research programs or new techniques (power point, demonstration animals).

Timetable: the exact timetable is not completed yet, as it depends on the number of registrations of the participants.

September 30th	begin 1:00 p.m. finish 6:30 p.m. 8:00p.m. informal come together Bayerisches Buffet sponsored by Boehringer-Ingelheim.
October 1st.	begin 8:30 a.m. (lunch break) finish 6:30 p.m.

Laboratories on dogs and horses take place at a stable close to the Gasthof Zum Dammerbauer, shuttle taxis or car sharing is organized. Lunch, coffee, drinks and snacks during the day are included.

Seminars Registration fee 265,- €
Please feel free to download the registration form

Like in the past two years there is again the possibility to visit the Oktoberfest as a group on Saturday Oct. 2nd. This time, as a special delicacy, we can offer you an original Bavarian Weißwurstfrühstück on Saturday morning at the Gasthof Zum Dammerbauer.

!!THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS IS LIMITED TO 30 PERSONS!!
!!REGISTRATION ENDS AT AUGUST 8th!! (Registration in order of incoming Payment only!)

For accomodation see the Hotels below:

1, Hotel "Zum Dammerbauer" (Conference Hotel), Fam. Heitmeir,
Dinghartinger Str. 3, 82064 Holzhausen bei Straßlach, Tel:  0049-8170-417,
info@zum-dammerbauer.de, www.zum-dammerbauer.de

All rooms are reserved to booking of seminars participants only to the end of JULY, password: ALBESCU

2, Pension Waldhaus am Deininger Weiher, Am Deininger Weiher 4,
82064 Großdingharting bei Straßlach, Tel: 0049-8170-92450,
eirich@deiningerweiher.de, www.deiningerweiher.de
All rooms do not have private bathrooms! Distance to seminar venue 1,5 km.

All rooms are reserved to booking of seminars participants only to the end of
JUNE, password: ALBESCU

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Minutes of the general member meeting

21st of November 2009, 17:30 p.m., Leonardo Airport Hotel Frankfurt (M), Germany - Minutes by Ute Körner

37 members including 5 board members

1. Address of welcome

Joao Paulo Marques welcomed the members.

He asked all attendees if they are happy with taping the meetings rather than protocoling it: No one against, no abstention: the meeting was taped.

The members of the board introduced themselves.

2. Reading and approval of the minutes from the last general meeting

The minutes were sent out to all members after the last membership meeting. Everybody had received them. Nobody wanted J.P. Marques to read the minutes out loud.

The minutes were approved by everybody.

3. Report of the cash audit

Dr. Petra Peer read out a summary of the cash report 2008:

• The money that the IVCA has received through membership fees, entry fees and donations were used for the following association activities:
• The membership fees were used to pay Helga Thorwartl (at the IVCA office), to print leaflets and other organizational things as well as the website. The money from the membership fees that has not been used flows into the research fund. At the 31st of December 2008 the accumulated sum from the last years for the research fund was 57.714,30 €.
• The board members agreed on supporting Emma Fretwells research project (details below) with the sum of €13.500.-. Mrs Fretwell will give a detailed invoice to the office of the IVCA.
• Accreditation of the schools that were preliminary accredited will take part in 2010 and will cost the IVCA approximately €5.000.- per school. This will amount to costs of €30.000,-
• The IVCA is still willing to support research concerning chiropractic in animals. Members are asked to develop research ideas.
• Paulo proposed the acceptance of the cash audit. It was accepted with no votes against it.

4. Discharge of the board (managing committee)

• Ivan Danne talked about the acitivities of IVCA in 2008:
• The managing committee held regular telephone conferences
• The website was improved, it holds information now about each member if he/she is certified or not.
• Letters concerning CE will be sent out in the next couple of days
• Organisation of the actual meeting was done by Petra Peer and Alex Keller, Thank You!
• Paulo proposed the discharging of the managing committee. The managing committee was discharged with no votes against it.

5. Statutory election and/or re-election of board members

The positions of Emma Fretwell, Paulo Marques and Petra Peer in the managing committee were open for election because of the 2 year rhythm. The other members of the managing board are Ivan Danne and Ute Körner. All three of them were ready to keep on going if they are re-elected.

Nobody else was proposed for election. All three of them were re-elected with no votes against them, all of them accepted their election.

6. Report of the research committee

Donald Moffatt named the members of the committee as Donald Moffatt, Bianca Carstens, Silke Werths, and Kuno von Plocki.
There was only one project brought forward to them which is the project from Emma Fretwell.
All other questions brought up to this committee were general without precise project ideas.

Emma Fretwell introduced her project concerning chiropractic care in cattles:

2 groups of 10 cows, one as a control group
chiropractic treatment every second week, control is unspecific touched
monthly examination of milk: amount, somatic cell count and butter fat
last 5 month showed impressive improvement of these parameters in the treatment group
project is supposed to last 18 month altogether

Another project is brought forward by Beatrix Wanas: She has already started to treat chronic colic horses and monitored the improvements if there were any. She only did two cases. Donald Moffatt offers his help formulating the project properly.

One more question is discussed. If it would be possible to publish research findings on the website. This might be a problem if these results are supposed to be published as a paper in a journal... Therefore it would only be possible to do that in the members area, which is not working yet. For information if research on a certain problem is done already, contact to Donald Moffatt was proposed.

Donald Moffatt proposed to advertise a reward for the best research of the year. This could offer an incentive for more research and / or could help to finance further research on the topic.

7. Report of the examination committee

Dr. Petra Peer reports:

6 examinations in 2009:	3 x IAVC
	1 x Backbone Academy,
	2 x Options for animals.
128 examinees	failed in theory: 31
	failed in practical: 6
	failed in both parts: 2

Examinations always take part the day after the schools examinations to make it easier for the students to take part.

Thanks a lot to the examiners!

8. Standards of education and program accreditation procedures

The IVCA has developed standards for the accreditation of schools that offer a basic animal chiropractic course. These standards of education provide the minimum standard that is expected from a school to be accredited by the IVCA. These standards were sent to the schools by post.

Deadline for acknowledgements is April 2010; Schools that send their information in before the end of February 2010 do not have to pay the € 1000,- administrative charges.

9. Other optional points

none

10. Additional discussions on petitions brought forward

There were no additional petitions brought forward

Next general meeting will probably take part on 20th of November 2010, it is discussed, but not decided yet where to arrange it.

J.P. Marques thanked everyone for taking part and closed the meeting at 6.45 p.m.

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IVCA examination dates 2010

IVCA examination dates are

School	Location	Date
Backbone	Sittensen, Germany	Feb 14th
Options for animals	Wellsville, USA	Feb 21st
IAVC	Sittensen, Germany	Apr 11th
Options for animals	Wellsville, USA	Sep 5th
IAVC	Loughborough, UK	Sep 12th
IAVC	Sittensen, Germany	Sep 19th
Backbone	Sittensen, Germany	Sep 19th

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