From the Curriculum Director
My report for this issue contains two introductions. The first is Pam Herald, our assistant program editor, and the second is a new book, Healing Injuries the Natural Way, by Michelle Schoffro Cook, that has recently come across my desk. In each case, circumstance and coincidence have been important, although in vastly different ways.
When Pam left her job as a pharmacy technician and came to CCNH, she was on a “temporary” assignment before beginning her “real” job with another company. Instead, the “real” job disappeared and she was offered a permanent place at CCNH, where she has now progressed in several steps to her position in the editing department. Her interest in natural health, begun during her tenure in the pharmacy, led to her earning an ND degree. Although not a practitioner, she uses her knowledge on the job as well as to help her two children and the family cat.
Healing Injuries the Natural Way, published in 2004 by Your Health Press, contains basic information about various approaches to helping the body heal many types of injuries. Before becoming a natural health practitioner, Canadian author Cook had suffered severe injuries in a car accident. Her quest for healing led to her career in natural health and then to this book. In it she offers information about types of injury, including those to soft tissue, joints, and bones. She teaches ways to promote healing using diet, herbs, body therapies, and other methods. In addition, she outlines the basic approach to injury prevention—staying active, becoming stronger, and eating well—and covers a number of ways to accomplish each one. Although succinct, this handbook provides plenty of information for individuals and practitioners alike.
Krista Leamon
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