Each day, up to 600 people like this family from Accra, Ghana, received chiropractic care from Life-West doctors and interns. Photo: © Magda Moiola, Dreamstime.com

Life-West travels to Ghana

Interns from Life Chiropractic College West, supervised by Patti Gonzalez, DC, provided chiropractic care to thousands of patients in Ghana over the course of two weeks earlier this year. Visiting a military hospital, a park, two orphanages, and churches, they saw up to 600 patients in one day.

The trip, the fourth mission from Life West to Ghana, was organized under the auspices of Aid for AIDS Africa, and was coordinated through Bryan Cox, DC, who practices in Ghana. Dr. Cox organized and promoted Spinal Awareness Week in Accra, Ghana through his clinic; the Life West mission trip was a component of that campaign.

Intern Angela Lindberg spoke about the impact their services had on the community and themselves. "Seeing a gentleman walking up to my table very slowly with a cane, and after his adjustment walk away with the cane under his arm, a smile on his face and a spring in his step, was breathtaking," she said. "What we do works! Knowing that I have been given the skills and the knowledge before I went to Ghana to change people's lives and to reconnect them with hope and life again is very rewarding."

In addition to Lindberg and Dr. Gonzalez, the group included Angel Chambers, DC; Khalid Chaney, DC; Lyndsay Mishko, DC; and interns Monique Motil, James McElroy, Norquitta Johnson, Jill Sirucek, Jerry Hannah, Jennifer Murtagh, Kyle Klim, Morgan Ruddiman, and Masahito Kanai.