As part of Vidan Family Chiropractic's continued effort to educate and empower their community, our office has registered with a national program called Learning Curves. Drs. Alex and Sara Vidan have become part of an international group of doctors who are spending their own time and resources, at no cost to the local schools or community, to provide a curriculum of health education for students, parent groups, and teacher organizations. Learning Curves is currently being presented at schools in the US, Canada, and Australia to help teach children valuable skills necessary for creating positive habits of posture, body awareness, backpack safety (choosing, packing, lifting, and carrying), and spinal health.

Learning Curves consists of a professionally written curriculum that meets National Health Education Standards (NHES), which emphasizes students' development and maintenance of health behavior. It was developed by chiropractors and written by Toucan Ed (a company nationally recognized for curriculum development for the past 20 years) to meet the social and cognitive development needs of children ages   7-11 (although curriculum can be adopted to other ages if necessary). Toucan Ed was contracted to write the curriculum so that it would be non-solicitous, allowing healthcare professionals to deliver a responsible and necessary message to children. The Learning Curves curriculum includes language arts, science, health, mathematics, problem solving, and social skills training. The lessons in Learning Curves, as with the NHES, help foster students who are critical thinkers and problem solvers; responsible, productive citizens; self-directed learners; and effective communicators-students who are health literate.

The focus of the program is to help children understand how their spine functions, how to make stretching a part of their daily activities, how to make better decisions regarding diet and posture, and to create an awareness of how our daily activities affect our current and future health. Dr. Vidan's goal is to help raise body awareness and provide opporuntities for our children to make better decisions regarding lifestyle and their health in order to avoid many of the painful and debilitating conditions experienced by many adults. Vidan Family Chiropractic realizes that through education and awareness today's youth will have a greater chance of achieving their unlimited potential.

Drs. Alex and Sara Vidan are committed to the field of wellness development and have the tools and resources to provide wellness education for parents, teachers, and students so that there is a stream of knowledge that can be reinforced at school, home, and play. We teach the children how to share the lesson material with friends, siblings, and parents so that they can also become more involved as a contributor within their community and family. These shared lessons also help parents and teachers understand the concepts so they can become better role models and mentors.

--Together we can help shift our community from reactive sick care to proactive health, wellness, and vitality.

For more information about Learning Curves for you or your child's school or youth group, please contact Dr. Sara Vidan at drsara@drvidan.com

Testimonial

  "I would recommend Dr. Sara Vidan and her Learning Curves program to any school, camp, or youth group.  Dr. Sara has come to our Summer Camp at Mid-County Family YMCA for several years to present this program.  My group looks forward to the presentation each year.  Dr. Sara makes the information about how to sleep and carry a backpack fun and practical.  She shows the children how to lie in bed in order to best protect their spines.  She then goes on to present information about the spine and the children get to play with the model spine rods that Dr. Sara brings with her, but the highlight is always the macaroni and glue spine activity!  Each child then has something tangible to take home and initiate the family discussion about what they learned.  Hopefully after her lesson some of the knowledge about how to properly purchase, pack and carry a school bag will be transferred into practice!  I highly recommend any program director to contact Dr. Sara to schedule this beneficial presentation." -Sandra Liming, District Aquatics Director, YMCA