SEEKING ASSOCIATE CHIROPRACTOR: Become a Myofascial Maestro!
- Job SummaryWe are not just seeking another chiropractor to work in our clinic, but a special chiropractor who wants to learn and develop exceptional skills to combine chiropractic care of joint dysfunction/subluxation and care of myofascial dysfunction and fascial dysfunction. (We are not seeking a high volume chiropractor.) You do not have to already possess the soft tissue skills, but you have to have a commitment to address these conditions as important for restoration of good function and pain relief.
Dr. Lucy Whyte Ferguson is prepared to spend the time and energy to train a new associate in the protocols she has developed to treat challenging conditions such as frozen shoulder, functional impingement of the hip, scoliosis, and successful rehabilitation of patients with complex injuries from auto accidents or work injuries, and we also work with VA patients. Dr. Whyte Ferguson loves to teach!
You will not have to recruit new patients. Our one full time chiropractor and two half time chiropractors have full practices just taking care of existing and re-activating patients, and on a daily basis, we are turning away new patients. Our referral base is very strong because we are known in the community and among health care providers for offering excellent diagnostics and comprehensive and effective musculoskeletal care. As soon as we know when a new associate will join our practice, we will start to schedule patients from a waiting list. As soon as the associate is ready, Dr. Whyte Ferguson, age 77, will be ready to further cut back her time in the clinic, and this will add to the demand for the associate’s services.
2. Our Clinic
Colonias Chiropractic Center is an integrated health care center that has built an excellent reputation over the last 30 years in Taos/El Prado, New Mexico. We are a practice of 3 chiropractors, 3 massage therapists, and a medical doctor, and we provide integrated myofascial and articular care. Our resources include a flexion/distraction table, a Thompson table, hydrocollator therapy, and Microlight and Erchonia cold laser therapy.
3. Our Community
Taos, New Mexico is in a valley in the Southern Rockies, has a world class ski resort and ski school, and there are many opportunities for outdoor recreation including river rafting and kayaking on the Rio Grande and hiking to Wheeler Peak, New Mexico’s highest mountain. Taos County has 33,000 residents. We are a multicultural community, including a Hispanic community, many of whom are descendants that settled here over 400 years ago. Taos Pueblo is a vital Native American community that resides in one of the oldest continuously inhabited sets of dwellings in North America and is a World Heritage site. Fiestas and Pueblo Feast Days, and an annual Pow Wow. Taos is proud of its artistic community including many artists, actors, musicians, singers, dancers, and writers. Arts festivals take place in every season. This is a special community and we would love for you to fall in love with this community and enjoy living and working here for years and years.
4. About Dr. Lucy
Dr. Lucy is a nationally and internationally recognized leader in the field of treatment of myofascial pain, and her myofascial mentor was Janet Travell, MD (President John F. Kennedy’s medical doctor) whom she met and started studying with in 1983. Joining our practice will allow you to be mentored by a leader and pioneer in myofascial care.
*1996 Awarded Janet Travell MD Soft Tissue Pain Management Award from American Academy of Pain Management (first chiropractor to receive an award from AAPM).
*2005 Published Clinical Mastery in the Treatment of Myofascial Pain edited by Dr. Lucy and by Robert Gerwin, MD (Johns Hopkins renowned neurologist). (Dr. Lucy has published numerous articles also.)
*2113-2020 University of New Mexico Medical School Pain Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Credentialed as UNM Medical School faculty member: Department of Neurosurgery. Participates as Myofascial expert in Project Echo: Chronic Pain and Opioid Management Clinic. (Project Echo is a web-based Grand Rounds in which clinicians in centers throughout New Mexico and at numerous other sites throughout the nation--including at Department of Defense and Veterans’ Administration Clinics--can seek consultation regarding their most difficult pain patients and can also participate in didactic skills sessions.)
*2119 Course Director, Advanced Hands-on Training in Manual Release Techniques, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Myofascial Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Interdisciplinary courses credentialed though UNM Continuing Medical Education [CME].) (Regular interdisciplinary teaching about myofascial diagnosis and treatment through UNM CME starting in 1995).
*UNM Myofascial Institute: Director of Hands on Myofascial Courses, 2022-2025
*2020 Awarded NIH Pilot Awards Grant for a research project Dr. Lucy designed, working together with Selina Silva, MD, pediatric spinal surgeon at Carrie Tingley Children’s Hospital at the University of New Mexico. This is a controlled study to validate the protocol: Myofascial and Articular Treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis. (Dr. Lucy spends 4 days per month in Albuquerque to perform treatments in the study, through May 2022).
*2021 Awarded Chiropractor of the Year Award by the New Mexico Chiropractic Association.
*2023 Speaker, Myofascial and Articular Treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis; Symposium on Myofascial Pain Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, and Fascial Disorders; 11th Congress of the International Myopain Society and sponsored by the Fascial Manipulation Institute; accredited by European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, an Institution of UEMS. Location: Anatomy Institute of the University of Padua, Italy.
*2024 Myofascial and Articular Treatment of Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS), by Lucy Whyte Ferguson, DC, Selina R. Silva, MD, Matthew A. Barela, MD, Orrin B Myers, PhD. Orthopedic Research Online Journal. 11(2) OPROJ 000756. 2024.
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