Cary Mullen is down and out

Crazy Canuck wannabee suffers yet another concussion after Michael Leahy, chiro to the stars says it's o.k. to ski!

• Mullen heads home after another crash - Edmonton Sun - December 16, 1998 - This is further testimony that chiropractors convince people that even recurrent concussions can be overcome with just a twist of the neck. Earlier this year Cary Mullen went to Colorado Springs to see Dr. Michael Leahy at the Champion Health Clinic. Leahy is one of North America's "chiros to the stars" and just loves the attention that these athletes bring to his practice. Mullen, on the other hand needed the boost he wanted to return to the other Crazy Canucks on the Canadian ski team. Even though he claims that 30 conventional medical practitioners could not help him, he went merrily on his way to the chiropractic sports wizard and returned after one treatment with the belief that his neck muscles were actually connected to the dura, the lining of the brain. By using his Active Release Technique ART^TM on Mullen, he convinced this seriously head-injured man to return to the ultimate collision path and downhill skiing. His numerous appearances on CBC undoubtedly resulted in more business for his clinic. Will Mullen head back to the Colorado for Christmas, for some more rearranging of his muscle-brain confluence, or will he finally hang it up and join the CBC as a colour commentator, a little less dizzy, but nonetheless ready for action?

Places you might go to get some medical advice and help on neuroanatomy, concussions, headaches, and any other pain in the neck you might have when you hear about chiropractors who may have contributed to the end of one of our Canadian skiers.

• Anatomy of a headache? - For an explanation for the dural muscular bridge from a medical meeting in Toronto. - The researchers don't mention chiropractic or Active Release treatment. In fact the main researchers for this study of human anatomy is a dentist and a neurosurgeon. There is not a chiropractor in sight.
  BTW- I was unable to find a single article of research that Michael Leahy published in peer review journals through Medline. If he is dealing with star athletes, they should know that before they plunk down any money. "Prove it, or you might lose it on the slopes", should be the watchword for any skier who has a problem with concussions and is so addicted to downhill that they will believe anything to kill themselves.
• AASH - American Association for the Study of Headache - resource page for questions on headache from around the world.
• Spine and Peripheral Nerve Surgery Information Links - Massachusetts General Hospital - MGH
• Search the Clinical Studies Center of the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C. for chiropractic.