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A team of visiting chiropractors from the USA, Canada and Jamaica are in Ghana to intensify chiropractic education in the country, with a call on Ghanaians to pay regular visits to chiropractic centres for regular health check-ups. The Founder and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Chiropractic & Wellness Centers, Dr. Marcus Manns, who led the delegation, made the call at a programme dubbed 'Vitality Rally' in Accra. He said human beings have the power to heal themselves if there is free communication from the brain through the nervous system to the various organs. Dr. Manns observed that diseases such as stroke, diabetes, and high blood pressure were the effect of living a negative life style, which results in interference in the nervous system that prevents the body from functioning properly. According to him, their work, as chiropractors, was to re-adjust any interference that may occur in the nervous system, which will help put the body back in a state that will ease healing, and adjust it to what it was created to do. He pointed out that, for example, having wallet in the pocket was not good, explaining that the wallet in the pocket makes one side of the leg higher than the other, which causes the two legs to be unlevel, leading to backaches. The Assistant General Manager of the Chiropractic & Wellness Centers, Mr. Philip Reimmer, said the Vitality Rally was designed by his outfit to encourage, inspire and educate all Ghanaians to pay attention to their health. He noted that they had five centers in Ghana, with two offices in Accra, and the head office at East Legon, one office at Kumasi, one at Cape Coast, and another at Takoradi. This, he said, was aimed at bringing chiropractic services to the door-steps of every Ghanaian. Mr. Reimmer stressed that: "It cost more money living a reactive life style than consulting a chiropractor. The money most Ghanaians spend on drugs on a weekly basis is very expensive, compared to the cost of seeing a chiropractor." Some journalists were also taken through basic lessons of chiropractic, such as the function of the spinal cord, and communication within the nervous systems.