Hi and welcome to the forum,

Dr. Helena Spacek is the only Paris-trained NA practitioner in Canada. She is an md working as a 'Physiatrist' at the 'Institute de Readatiation de Montreal'. The Institute is quite respectable and is affiliated with the University of Montreal.

You may find a definition of Physiatrist under the Canadian Association of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

I contacted her office a couple of years ago and found them to be pleasant, that they take OHIP (with an MD's referral from your home province)....BUTtttttt.....she does not have an email address and will not look at pictures of your hands before the appt so in my opinion.....a blind trip to Montreatl could be a major waste of an airplane ticket and time...and we do not see any posts from her patients about her work....whether or not it's because she is an MD or because she does not have many DC patients...I don't know....I do know that she took a lot of flack and rejection from the medical community in Quebec....so I don't even know is she is still doing NA.

None-the-less for people living within driving distance...ya...I'd consider it.

As for Dr. Binhammer...Dave has had him posted as an NA practitioner for *years*....even includes a newpaper article that Dr. Binhammer gives about NA......I've checked with the inventors of NA in France and they have never heard of him...and....there has not been a single compliment about his work posted here in all that time.......

So friend....like my subject line says...'Read on McDuff' there is a tonne of information and debate about self-taught NA practitioners over the last year on this website. READ IT....then make your decision.

Personally, I had the same options and went for someone who was tried and true.....whose credentials for performing NA were clear and am glad for it.

France and Florida are not that far.....

A fellow Canadian