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#68 Case Studies

3/26/2014

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                        In the exam room, called Innate, you will see the cane that Jerry used to use to get around.  He had literally racked up his body working in the body shop industry on the alignment rack, having fallen off of it.  Add to this plenty of dirt-bike falls and you had a spine that couldn’t support its own body.  He gave me the cane not long after he began care when he no longer needed it. 

            In the front room you will find an empty bottle of antibiotics next to the tale of Andrew, the 8 month old whose chronic ear infections were conquered by chiropractic. 

            Then there is the asthmatic 2 year olds story in the computer room that was life changing for her.  No more inhalers or hospital ER visits.

            My favorite story is in Palmer, the story of Yolanda and her daughter.  Yolie had headaches 24/7 and she later confessed that without chiropractic care to control her headaches, she would not have been physically able to adopt her drug addicted niece’s baby.  This baby, born addicted to drugs, is now quite normal and academically advanced thanks to the love of a mommy and daddy that might not have been.

            But the real reason for this article are the case studies on the next page.  There are three.  Each of these is formatted the same.  I have scanned in a portion of the patient’s exam results showing the date of the exam and the TOTAL SUBLUXATION VALUE (TSV).  For example the top case study has a TSV of 108 on 10/21/05.  This number is the sum of the two smaller numbers at the top of the exam in the little rectangle, 62 and 46.  The 62 is the NERVE STRESS VALUE (NSV) or the sum of the little numbers on the left and right of the spine.  The 46 is the INFLAMMATION VALUE (IV) or the sum of the numbers in the little spinal boxes.  Remember that the little numbers vary from 1-4.  1 is tender.  2 is ouch.  3 hurts so bad that I can tell it hurts without the patient saying anything, and most 4’s are in too much pain to get to my office in the first place. 

            And also remember that the goal of Intensive Care is to reduce both the NERVE STRESS VALUE and INFLAMMATION VALUE by 50%.  So over time we see the reduction in the TSV as the patient progressed through Intensive Care to Reconstructive Care and then to Wellness Care when maximum correction had been achieved.  The first case saw a TSV go from 108 to 4 taking just over 8 months.  The second case took 15 months to progress from 148 to just 12!  And the last case went from a TSV of 135 to 16 in a year!  These are not exceptional cases.  They are very typical in time and results.

            But a finer look at case 3 shows that she discontinued adjustments for exactly 9 months.  The proof that subluxation is progressive and degenerative is that her TSV increased from 16 back to 81 over those 9 months, necessitating a short Intensive Care to regain control of the subluxation from the effects of time, gravity, and life. 

            So from these cases you can see that the goal of Intensive Care is to reduce the NSV and IV by 50%.  Once this is accomplished the goal of Reconstructive Care is to reduce the TSV by the maximum possible, usually to around 5-10.  And the goal of Wellness Care is to keep the subluxation from returning.  Each phase is necessary to complete correction/control of subluxation.    

            Some patients go through this process only one time.  They learn it once and stick to it.  Patient 3 will take at least twice through to learn.  But this is why we teach what we teach and offer the programs we do.  This is why our office is unique.  I hope you share this information with a friend.    

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Yolanda wrote:
     
     I used to suffer severe headaches and migraines on a daily basis, usually all day.  I managed to work in an office because I had to.  When I went home at the end of the day I would often close the shades and go to bed.  I could not plan weekend events because I simply never knew how I was going to feel tomorrow.  If there were a special event such as a birthday or wedding, I would begin to medicate myself two weeks in advance to give myself the best chance of making the event.
     Friends and fellow church-goers had been trying to get me to see Dr. Rick for some time before I finally gave in.  Looking back, I don’t know why I waited.  Within a month, I was headache free.  I couldn’t remember what it was like to not feel pain.  I could do whatever I wanted and not live in fear of the headache.  This was a miracle for me, but the story does not end here.
     An opportunity came up for us to adopt a newborn baby girl not long after I began chiropractic care.  This baby was particularly important to me and my husband because her mother is a relative.  Tragically, her mother was also a drug user and did drugs during her pregnancy.  If we could not adopt the baby she would have been put into the foster system since the biological mother was incapable of raising her.
     To keep a long story short, we did adopt her and she is doing fantastically.  There is no sign of any effect of the drugs on her as of yet, and with God’s help, there never will be.  We think that is because of the vast amounts of love and attention she gets from us, her real mommy and daddy.
     What does this have to do with chiropractic?  The reality is that without chiropractic, I would still be nearly an invalid with headaches.  I COULD NOT HAVE TAKEN CARE OF AN INFANT OR RAISED A YOUNG CHILD.  THEREFORE, SHE WOULD NOT HAVE ANY OF THE OPPORTUNITIES IN LIFE THAT MY HUSBAND AND I WILL BE ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR HER.  MY DAUGHTER’S LIFE IS POSSIBLE BECAUSE SOMEBODY MADE ME GO TO A CHIROPRACTOR. 
     You need to tell everyone you know what you know about chiropractic.  Who knows who’s life you will change too.
Andrew's mother, Barbara, wrote:

     Hello, My name is Andrew and I am a happy, healthy one year old.  But I wasn’t so happy or healthy when I first met Dr. Rick a few months ago.  I had been having problems with my ears for four months, I couldn’t sleep at night and I was miserable.  We’d been to the doctor lots of times but nothing was helping.  In fact, all the medicines the doctor had tried seemed to make me worse instead of better!  Both the regular doctor and the Ear-Nose and Throat doctor said that if the antibiotics didn’t work, then they’d just have to put tubes in.  Now my Mom and dad weren’t about to let them do surgery on me, especially since they had been reading and learned that tubes can cause more problems than they solve.  My mom and dad did a lot of praying.  Then my mom heard that sometimes babies who have a traumatic birth like mine have ear trouble.  You see when I was born they used a vacuum extractor and forceps to pull me out.  I guess all that yanking on my head, hurt my neck.  She also heard that chiropractic care can be the answer.  Now she was skeptical because she couldn’t imagine a chiropractor helping ear infections!?!  But at that point she was willing to try anything!!  Happily, a few weeks of adjustments and my ears were all cleared up.  In addition, I no longer had a stiff neck or shoulders and my whole personality was happier.  I have to tell all babies who have ear troubles, don’t let them give you tubes until you at least try chiropractic care first.  After all, it can’t hurt and if you’re like me, you could be perfectly well with no drugs and no surgery.  In my family, we thank God for Dr. Rick, because I feel better, my mom and dad are happier and sometimes, I even sleep through the night.