Frederick Carrick

Frederick R. Carrick
Born February 26, 1952
Toronto, Canada[1]
Alma mater Walden University
Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College
Occupation -Chiropractor
-Owner of Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies in Cape Canaveral, Florida
-Owner of Carrick Brain Centers in Irving, Texas and Marietta, Georgia
-Former professor of chiropractic at Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, Missouri, Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas, Texas and Life University in Marietta, Georgia
Known for Inventor of chiropractic neurology

Frederick Robert "Ted" Carrick (born February 26, 1952) is a chiropractor considered the father of modern chiropractic neurology.[2] He is the founder of Carrick Brain Centers in Irving, Texas, with an additional location in Marietta, Georgia. He is also the founder of Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Early life and education

Born in Toronto, and raised in Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg and other locations as his father was a soldier,[3] Carrick has a doctor of chiropractic degree from Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College and a PhD in Education from the online Walden University.[4][5][6]

Career

In 2012, Carrick joined the clinical faculty of Marietta, Georgia-based Life University's LIFE Functional Neurology Center. He left the LIFE Functional Neurology Center in spring 2013.

He was a professor at Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, Missouri and at Parker College of Chiropractic in Dallas, Texas.[7]

Carrick has treated Canadian ice hockey players Sidney Crosby, Jonathan Toews and Claude Giroux,[8][9] as well as Brazilian football player Alexandre Pato.[10] In November 2014, American conservative media personality and radio show host Glenn Beck announced that Carrick had diagnosed and cured him (Beck) of adrenal fatigue.[11][12]

Publications

Carrick has published various papers in journals related to chiropractic.[13][14] Additionally, he has published two articles in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics. His first paper, published in 1983, was entitled "Cervical radiculopathy: the diagnosis and treatment of pathomechanics in the cervical spine". A second, and possibly more controversial,[15][16] article addressed "changes in brain function" by mapping patients' blind spots after cervical spine manipulation. This article was entitled "Changes in brain function after manipulation of the cervical spine" and was published in 1997.[17]

Television appearances

Carrick appeared in the PBS documentary, Waking up the Brain.[18] Juju Chang of ABC's Nightline investigated "chiropractic neurology," which aired on August 21, 2012.[19]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Cathy Gulli (November 3, 2011). "Rebuilding Sidney Crosby’s brain". Maclean's. Retrieved November 20, 2014. Carrick was born on Feb. 26, 1952, in Toronto, and raised in Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg—wherever work took his father, a career soldier with the Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry who fought in the Korean War.
  2. ↑ Harris, Gail. "Waking Up The Brain". PBS. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  3. ↑ Cathy Gulli (November 3, 2011). "Rebuilding Sidney Crosby’s brain". Maclean's. Retrieved November 20, 2014. Carrick was born on Feb. 26, 1952, in Toronto, and raised in Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg—wherever work took his father, a career soldier with the Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry who fought in the Korean War.
  4. ↑ Carrick Brain Centers (May 12, 2013). "Dr. Ted Carrick DC, PhD Biography". carrickbraincenters.com. Retrieved November 20, 2014.
  5. ↑ Robert Todd Carroll (September 28, 2009). "Editor's Note: Chiropractic Neuroscience". skepdic.com. Retrieved November 20, 2014. He holds a Ph.D. in education, with a concentration in brain-based learning, from the distance-learning Walden University.
  6. ↑ Cathy Gulli (November 3, 2011). "Rebuilding Sidney Crosby’s brain". Maclean's. Retrieved November 20, 2014. By the mid-1990s, Carrick and his family had relocated to St. Cloud, Fla., and he obtained a self-designed Ph.D. from Walden University in what he calls “brain-based learning.”
  7. ↑ Robert Todd Carroll (September 28, 2009). "Editor's Note: Chiropractic Neuroscience". skepdic.com. Retrieved November 20, 2014. CN [chiropractic neurology] is the brainchild of Frederick R. Carrick, DC, Distinguished Post Graduate Professor of Clinical Neurology at Logan College of Chiropractic and Professor Emeritus of Neurology at Parker College of Chiropractic.
  8. ↑ "Giroux skating again". Philadelphia Daily News. December 5, 2012. Retrieved November 22, 2014. The injury was serious enough to return to North America to visit with noted chiropractic neurologist Dr. Ted Carrick in Marietta, Ga. Carrick also treated NHL stars Sidney Crosby and Jonathan Toews, both of whom share the same agent as Giroux in CAA Sports’ Pat Brisson.
  9. ↑ Chris Kuc (November 15, 2012). "Jonathan Toews: Lockout helps Toews' mending process". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved November 22, 2014. Toews returned Saturday after spending time undergoing a battery of tests and corrective methods at the Carrick Institute at Life University in Marietta, Ga. The institute has treated other high-profile athletes, including the Penguins' Sidney Crosby, who has had his career threatened by concussions.
  10. ↑ Pittsburgh Penguins. "Crosby Visits Dr. Carrick". Pittsburgh Penguins. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  11. ↑ Brian Palmer (November 18, 2014). "Glenn Beck says he has adrenal fatigue. That's not a real medical condition.". Slate. Retrieved November 20, 2014. The clinic that diagnosed and treated Glenn Beck also deserves a mention. The Carrick Brain Centers were founded by “chiropractic neurologist” Ted Carrick, who, like James Wilson, has questionable credentials. His Ph.D., for example, comes from a for-profit university that now operates exclusively online. Carrick has made wild claims about restoring patients’ eyesight and hearing. He also claims to bring people back from comas. If extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, you’d think Carrick would have a series of massive, randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind studies to prove his results. In fact, he has nothing but anecdotes. Yale neurologist and noted quackery hawk Steven Novella sums the situation up nicely: “Chiropractic neurology appears to me to be the very definition of pseudoscience—it has all the trappings of a legitimate profession, with a complex set of beliefs and practices, but there is no underlying scientific basis for any of it.”
  12. ↑ Jason Heid (November 11, 2014). "Glenn Beck Credits Move to Dallas With Saving His Life". D Magazine blog, Frontburner. Retrieved November 20, 2014. Beck credits the barrage of treatments and tests he’s undergone in the last 10 months with reversing his condition — that and the good fortune of having moved to North Texas.
  13. ↑ Frederick R. Carrick; Elena Oggero; Guido Pagnacco; J. Brandon Brock; Tina Arikan (2007, Vol. 29, No. 24, pp. 1881-89 (doi:10.1080/09638280601141335) ). "Posturographic testing and motor learning predictab". Disability and Rehabilitation. doi:10.1080/09638280601141335. Retrieved 22 February 2014. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  14. ↑ Gerry Leisman, Robert Melillo, Sharon Thum, Mark A Ransom, Michael Orlando, Christopher Tice, Frederick R Carrick (March 2011). "The effect of hemisphere specific remediation strategies on the academic performance outcome of children with ADD/ADHD". International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health 22 (2). Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  15. ↑ Hall, Harriet (November 29, 2011). "Blind-Spot Mapping, Cortical Function, and Chiropractic Manipulation". Science Based Medicine. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  16. ↑ Carrick, Frederick. "Deception, Fraud and Misrepresentation: The Harriet Hall Syndrome". Computerized Physiologic Blind Spot Mapping. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  17. ↑ "Changes in brain function after manipulation of the cervical spine". PubMed.org. US National Library of Medicine: NIH. October 1997. Retrieved November 11, 2014.
  18. ↑ Harris, Gail. "Waking Up The Brain". Public Broardcasting Service. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
  19. ↑ Cheng, Juju. "ABC Nightline News: Chiropractic Neurology:Breakthrough Treatment or Placebo". American Broadcasting Company. Retrieved 24 April 2014.

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