Chiropractic Care

Most of us take care of our stuff. We have the car serviced regularly, we call a plumber when it's appropriate, we mow the yard when it gets shaggy. So why don't we take better care of our bodies? Any one of us can easily list ten things that would make our lives better if we did them. When will we do them? What will life be like when we did them? How will we know when the problem is resolved?

I just finished seeing a woman who is reaching retirement age and is concerned about her dowager's hump. 64 years of age and she has never seen a chiropractor. She feels much better after only one visit but 64? What would have been wrong with normalizing the biomechanics thirty years ago, or forty, or fifty, or sixty for that matter.

When I was in practice in California a Vendor lent me a pocket EKG to try out. For the next six weeks everyone that came in the front door got an EKG. I found things. I found aberrant rhythms, conduction defects, wandering pacemaker, pvc's. I would then normalize the biomechanics of the spine and retest. I was a little surprised at the number of cardiac pathologies that resolved following manipulation of the spine.

I was speaking with a friend who is an oncologist and I said "We give our patients all this exotic stuff assuming that it is getting to the tissue that needs it." He said "You're right, we need to add it to the protocol." I didn't have to tell him that I was speaking of normalizing the biomechanics.

If you are getting on an airplane to fly many thousands of miles away and you find out that that plane has been involved in an incident, which parts of that airplane do you want to have been repaired properly?