CAPE GIRARDEAN NOTICES DIFFERENT MOOD IN RUSSIA

Dr. Robert Kessinger noticed a different mood in Moscow during his recent four-and-a-half-day visit.

"The people appeared to be more relaxed," said Kessinger, of Cape Girardeau, a specific chiropractic who was in Russia with 15 other doctors of chiropractic to demonstrate brain stem research and its involvement in many disorders.

Kessinger, world mission coordinator for the Kale Network, operates the Kessinger Clinic at 1424 Kurre Lane. He has accompanied the Kale Network, headquartered at Spartanburg, S.C., to Russia three times, and will go again in 1994.

"The first time I was in the Moscow area, the people appeared more depressed," said Kessinger. "Red flags were everywhere. They're not there any longer."

Life in Moscow and Russia has changed since Boris Yeltsin was elected to power, said Kessinger. "People mingled in The Goom (mall) of Moscow," he said. "They appeared more friendly."

Yeltsin was elected president of the new Russia in 1991, in the first popular election in Soviet history.

"Gorbachev was in power during my first trip to Russia," said Kessinger. Mikhail Gorbachev, who moved into power in 1985, started the Soviets on the way to their new way of life. He quietly allowed the Berlin Wall to fall in West Germany, he pledged policies of political openness and rebuilt the economy, and gradually swept away the Marxist-Leninist-Stalinist philosophies that dictated Russian life for decades.

Kessinger was busy during his stay in Russia. The Kale team saw more than 10,000 patients. "The cases were documented with case histories and statistics for research," said Kessinger. He said people appeared more receptive and eager for treatment than during the two previous visits to Russia.

"The first time we visited Russia we treated only 750 patients," said Kessinger. "During the second trip, we treated more than 3,000.

"We had an opportunity to observe some patients we previously had treated during our last trip to Russia," he said. "Improvements were observed in many conditions such as Parkinsons, Alzheimer, vertigo and cerebral palsy."

Kessinger, Dr. Micheal Kale of Spartanburg, S.C., and 14 other physicians were working out of a clinic about 40 miles from Moscow, in a small village of about 400 people. The Kale team was made up of 16 doctors, nine American and seven Canadian.

Kale and Kessinger visited one of the major hospitals in Moscow where Russian doctors are making plans for a Kale Specific Chiropractic Clinic.

"We'll be returning to Moscow in late July to coordinate brain stem research with Russian scientists," Kale said. "Then, in October, we'll take a large group of doctors to Moscow to see more people, this time in the Coliseum."

The Kale Network is also planning mission visits to Bulgaria, Israel, and Japan.