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omm Please forward announcements for Update to Kathy Yanchus, Oakville Beaver, 467 Speers Rd., Oakville, Ont. L6K 384; or call the Update Mailbox at 845â€"5585, box 5440 or Fax 845â€"3085 BEFORE NOON WEDNESDAY to be included. Items are published at no charge. However, priority is given to local nonâ€"profit events. Publication is not guaranteed due to space limitations. The Oakville Concert Band in concert at the Oakville Centre, 2 p.m. Portraits in Sound with new conductor Anthony Kershaw featuring music from Miss Saigon, Cole Porter On Broadway and Hoagy Carmichael in Concert plus more. Tickets, $6. Information: 338â€"8114. GARA â€" Glen Abbey Residents Association meets at Pilgrim Wood School library, Pilgrim‘s Way, at 7:30 p.m. Red Cross Blood Donor Clinic, Oakville Place, 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Bronte Horticultural Society holds April meeting, 7:30 p.m., Walton Memorial United Church. Speaker: Sharon Duncan and Container Gardening. Information: $27â€"3009. The Maplegrove/Clearview area‘s Community Consultation Committee meets with the Halton Regional Police Service Community Officers, 7 p.m., Maplegrove Village. Call: 849â€"9898. Oakville Horticultural Society meets, Knox Presbyterian Church, Dunn Street. Speakers Sheila Teibe and Karen Jones of MONDAY APRIL 11 SUNDAY APRIL 10 A landmark Canadian study provides overwhelming evidence that chiropractic care is safer, more costâ€" effective, and more successful in treating lowâ€"back pain than traditional medicine. The Manga Report, commissioned by the Ontario Ministry of Health, reviewed all of the international evidence on the management of lowâ€"back pain and concluded that "chiropractic management is greatly superior to medical management in terms of scientific validity, safety, costâ€"effectiveness, and patient satisfaction." The 216â€"page Manga report was carried out by a team of distinguished, independent health economics at the University of Ottawa. The principal authors of the report are Professor Pran Manga, MA, Ph1), Director of the Health Administration program, and Douglas Angus, adjunct professor of Health Economics. The study is significant since lowâ€"back dysfunction costs society billions of dollars annually in work productivity, unnecessary surgeries and other ineffective and expensive therapies. The report is clear and conclusive in its findings that society must turn away from the traditional therapies of drugs and surgery for the management of lowâ€"back pain. This study, based on international evidence, was not done by chiropractors, but by leading, unbiâ€" ased health economists who were commissioned by the Canadian government. The study was to investigate the validity and costâ€"effectiveness of chiropractic management of lowâ€"back pain. A summary of the findings of the Manga Report, based on scientifically valid clinical studies, points to inescapable international evidence that: s adinstments annlied by chironractors are nroven to be more effective than alternative + "Spinal adjustments applied by chiropractors are proven to be more effectfive than alternative treatments for lowâ€"back pain." + Chiropractic is safer than most existing medical therapies for lowâ€"back pain and that "current medical therapies for lowâ€"back pain remain untested, questionable or harmful..." « "Chiropractic management of lowâ€"back pain is more costâ€"effective than medical management." * "There is good empirical evidence that patients are very satisfied with chiropractic management of _ lowâ€"back pain and considerably less satisfied with physician management." , } _ + Despite higher private, outâ€"ofâ€"pocket cost to most patients, the "use of chiropractic has grown _ _ steadily over the years." These findings, among other, offer an "overwhelming case in favor of ~~ â€" much greater use of chiropractic services in the management of lowâ€"back pain." tA } #f ~‘ _ The Manga Report concludes by listing a number of recommendations. It advises that chiropractic services be fully insured and fully integrated into the National Health Plan. It also recommends that chiropractors be employed by hospitals, be given hospital privileges in treating their patients, and be given access to pertinent patient records and tests from hospitals, diagnostic facilities, physicians, and other health care professionals. It also suggests that chiropractors be involved in assessing policy, > _ procedures and treatment of workers with back injuries on the Workers‘ Compensation Board. In / addition, the report further recommends that government funds and resources.be made available for more clinical research regarding chiropractic care; that chiropractic education be included in multiâ€" _ disciplinary universities with appropriate public funding; and that the government actively encourage f\ cooperation between chiropractors, medical practitioners, and physiotherapists. 4 In the conclusion of his report, Dr. Manga, a member on many advisory councils of the Canadian {/ government and known for his expertise in health administration and economics advises that "chiroâ€" , practic services be fully insured under the Ontario Health Insurance Plan." It is hoped that the evidence presented in this report, as well as that of many other previous studies, will help to guarantee the benefits of chiropractic care for all Canadians. § N MANGA CANADIAN STUDY VALIDATES CHIROPRACTIC‘S EFFECTIVENESS Park Lane Nurseries present slides and disâ€" cuss perennials for the 90‘s. Information: 847â€"1419. (The Society‘s Cablenet proâ€" gram can be seen on Channel 23TV April 8th, 11th, 22nd and 25th at 6:30 p.m.) Osteoporosis Society Support Group meets, 1:30 p.m., Sir John Colborne Centre. Oakville Parent Child Centre presents Time Out, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Small Steps to a Better Environment with Steven Moore, Environmental Consultant. Information: §49â€"6366. 337 Kerr St. Equilibrium presents Dr. Brian Butler, psychiatrist/lawyer. Topic: Legal Ramifications of Manic Depressive PUD TUESDAY APRIL 12 Behaviour. St. Dominic‘s parish centre, 2415 Rebecca St., 7:30 p.m. Call:: §45â€" Mothers Morning Out, 9:15 to 11:15 a.m., Chartwell Baptist Church, 228 Chartwell Rd. Are you a mom with one or more children? Do you need a break? Enjoy a guest speaker and stimulating conâ€" versation while your child is cared for in a room down the hall. Information: Aid for New Mothers: 844â€"9009. Overeaters Anonymous meets, 8 p.m., Knox Presbyterian Church, Dunn Street. Information: Sharon, §44â€"9518. Air Cadets for youth 12 to 18 meets, 7 p.m., T.A. Blakelock, Rebgcgq Street. The Oakville Stamp Club meets at 7 p.m., cafeteria, St. Thomas Aquinas, 124 Margaret Dr. Visitors welcome. New members welcome. Further information: Secretary, The Oakville Stamp Club, PO Box 69643, Oakville, L6J 7R4. Oakville Newcomers Club, a social club open to women who have moved here within the past two years. Meets, 7:30 p.m., Trinity United Church, 1250 mcCraney St. Information: Karen, 847â€" 8702 or Pat, §47â€"5694. International wine and viticulture authority Helmut Jung will ‘be conducting a ‘Tasting of Wines from Germany‘ at The Oakville Club, 56 Water St. Jung is known to many as the ‘Dean of the German Wine Academy‘ in Kloster Abbey Chiropractic 825â€"9529 1500 Heritage Way Dr. Ron McAlister Dr. Murray McPhail Northoak Chiropractic 338â€"5951 243 N. Service Rd. W., Suite 203 Dr. Jay Burness Nottinghill Place Chiropractic Clinic _ 827â€"4197 1131 Nottinghill Gate, Suite 205 Dr. Sandra Simpson Upper Oakville Chrroprochc Cllmc 849â€"1400 1011 Upper Middle Rd. Dr. Dave Healey River Oaks Professional Building 338â€"5558 2â€"2169 Sixth Line Dr. Richard Grolmus AnshenkoFf/MocDou%cll Chiropractic 338â€"1548 rafa Dr. Mlchegle Arishenkoff Dr. Lloyd MacDougall Maple Grove Chlroprochc Clinic 338â€"3732 511 Maple Grove Dr. Dr. James Wilson Dr. Patrick Zak Moore Chiropractic Centre 220 Randall St. Dr. Brett Moore Dr. Don Moore Oakville Chiropractic Centre Dunn St. Dr. Richard Fenn Dr. Arnold Roper Shaw Chiropractic Centre Argus Rd. Dr. Greg Shaw Bronte Chiropractic Office 2368 Lakeshore Rd. W. ..__ Dr. Joyce Allman Halton Chiropractic Clinic 250 yecr9H Rd;,"Suite Hassard Chiropractic Clinic 2361 Lakeshore Rd. W. Dr. Mark Hassard Dr. Murray Hassard Huggins Chiropractic 9946 Spesrs R Dr. Brian Huggins Oakwest Churoprochc Office 635 Fourth Line Dr. Don Hammond Dr. Larry Laughlin Dr. Bill Stackhouse Eberbach. Those interested should leave a message for wine columnist Alex Eberspaecher at the Oakville Beaver 845â€" 3824 and he will get back to you. As time and space are limited, call ASAP to make your reservation. Oakville Branch of the Medical Secretaries Association meets, Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital, Lecture Room A (formerly OT HighSchoo}), 7:30 p.m. Guest speaker: representative from the Oakville Red Cross. Call:Anna VanDyke, 847â€"1339. Glen Abbey Toastmasters meet, 7:30 p.m., McGinness Landing, Dorval Drive and North Service Road. Information: John. $47â€"1235 or Dennis, 827â€"8216. (See Update page 8) by Steve Nease 845â€"2291 845â€"1613 844â€"9117 845â€"9777