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Hey Golfers - Drive For A Cure

Let’s Talk Posture Connects With Many

Dr. Joel Leger – Chiropractor, important abdominal musculature. By Terry Tinkess
Acupuncture Provider, TPI golf certifi ed This leads to a tight and sore lower
Cornwall Spine Care Plus back and decreases our ability to he statement that Cancer touches
use the pelvis to create torque and
Teveryone could not be more
power. In the C-posture, the golfer
accurate. Think about it for a second:
rounds his or her shoulder and the
perhaps you have been recently
mid-back is flexed forward. This diagnosed with some form of cancer,

tends to decrease the golfer’s ability
or maybe you are a survivor, having
to rotate his or her spine throughout already undergone treatment.
the golf swing. Part of the reason for the success
Maybe you have a friend, a loved
Our posture plays a critical role one, or even just an acquaintance of Drive for a Cure is due to the
in determining which parts of our who is battling the disease. For strength of their organizing
committee, some of whom are
body will or will not have the ability most people, you don’t have to look shown here at a recent planning
to flex, extend, and rotate. Come very far to fi nd a life that has been meeting. (L-R) Paul Boosamra,

see one of our TPI golf certified impacted by Cancer. Bob Piteau, Frank Holiday, Debbie

health professionals at Cornwall On August 28, the eighth annual Smith, Bill Dickie and Bruce
Spine Care Plus to create long Drive for a Cure golf tournament Grant. Other committee members
lasting spinal health and improve will take place at the Cornwall Golf include former NHL goaltender
your swing for the long-term. and Country Club. The tournament Billy Smith, Nolan Quinn, Ryan
features an 11 a.m. shotgun start, and Petrynka, Sharon Duffy, Cindy

ebster’s defines the word Cornwall Spine Care Plus,
your $175 registration fee includes Kanner, Andre Pommier, Johneen
Wposture as ‘the position 117 Eleventh Street West,
breakfast, golf, a cart and dinner. Rennie and Bruce Wiccham.
or bearing of the body whether Cornwall, ON Photo by Terry Tinkess.
The net proceeds of the event are
characteristic or assumed for a 613-938-1000
used by the Canadian Cancer Society
special purpose’. In our scenario – www.spinecareplus.ca
to support the S. D. G Prescott- mark, and most of it goes for
during a golf game – our posture is Russell transportation program. transportation, taking patients to and
assumed for a special purpose. Our
Bruce Grant, one of the members of from treatments, people who can’t
chances of hitting the ball straighter, the tournament organizing committee drive themselves.”
longer, and more consistently explains how the tournament came If you aren’t able to be one of the
dramatically improve if we have Golfer into being. 144 golfers in the tournament, the
the correct posture before, during,
in S-Posture. “Some of us who have lost family Cancer Society is also grateful for the
and after our swing. If we address members, and who are also golfers, got donation of prizes that can become
the ball with poor and inefficient together and decided that this might a part of the silent auction. These

postures, not only are we decreasing be a good way to raise some money can be dropped off at the Canadian
our ability to generate club head and still have some enjoyment,” says Cancer Society offi ce at 837 Pitt St.
speed and hence golf ball distance Grant. Unit #1. Various other sponsorship
but we are creating poor movement One of the benefits of using golf opportunities are also available.

patterns that will lead to uneven as a fundraiser is that there is really Dealing with a life-threatening
wear and tear within the spine and
no age restriction and there isn’t illness can frequently lead to
extremities.
necessarily a skill requirement either depression and the feeling of
Two common problematic golf because there aren’t really any big helplessness. Having an event like
postures exist – the ‘S-posture’ prizes for golf overall. “There are this allows for people to feel that they
(Figure 1) and the ‘C-posture’ good prizes,” says Grant, “but they are a part of a “team” with a common
(Figure 2). Referencing Figures 1 Golfer are more for things like longest drive, goal.
and 2, we can quickly see that the closest to the hole, things that anyone “I guess it makes people feel good
in C-Posture.
S and C postures look like their might have a chance at.” There are to try and do something about it,” says
alphabetic descriptor. With the also a number of draws, and a silent Grant. “Mostly we’re pretty helpless,
S-posture, the golfer creates too auction. when you get Cancer, what can you
much arch in the low back thereby According to Grant, support from do? You just do what people tell you,
over stressing the posterior elements the community has been good. “We what the doctors tell you. This is kind
of the spine and relaxing the all- usually raise around the $20,000.00 of a way to help to combat it.”

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