Dinner with the Documentarian

Recently, my folks had dinner with a filmmaker who is making a documentary based on the life of Dr. James Klagas, one of my Dad's Chiropractic patients.

Dr. Klagas has Multiple Sclerosis, a debilitating desease that affects your entire body. At times his disease was so bad, he couldn't go a single day without falling to the ground. MS causes you to lose sense of your limbs, so he didn't know where his foot was in relation to the ground and he would fall. He had to deal with severe pain in his entire body.
Dr. Klagas is a trumpeter and was the premiere soloist for the US Marine Band, whose primary job is to provide music for the President. At the worst times, he could not even hold his trumpet up to his mouth. He had been to every doctor and neurologist, taken steroids, etc. Nothing helped. Until he met my Dad, and was treated with Gonstead Chiropractic. After a short time of treatment, Dr. Klagas has regained almost everything he lost with his MS. He hasn't fallen to the ground since, and is now able to play the piano again, after 10 years. He can do simple things we all take for granted! Through his Gonstead Chiropractic treatment, he regained the ability to button his shirt, and tie his shoes, things he was unable to do due to his Multiple Sclerosis disease. A nice article on the subject can be found here.

The documentary will be about Dr. Klagas and his MS, and my Dad, Dr. Dennis Doan, and his treatment with Gonstead Chiropractic. I hope it proves very educational and informative for those who are afflicted with this disease, or any other ailment. It is very important that everyone at least learn of the various methods of treatment. Most important of all is to never give up hope.

On a side note, the filmmaker has met both Steven Spielberg AND George Lucas! Pretty nifty.