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#90 The 4th Tool

4/15/2014

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            If you have been to other chiropractors you may have found that we all seem to be a little bit different from each other in the manner in which we treat our patients.  I don't know if this is a good thing or not but I imagine it can be frustrating to the consumer not knowing what you’re going to get.  One of the main differences between all of us are the tools we use in our daily practice.  Examples of chiropractic tools run the full gamut including nearly everything that is not a drug and does not use needles to administer; this includes vitamins, supplements, massage, ultrasound, electrical stim, vibrating tables, traction, decompression, inversion, iridology, reflexology, acupressure, lasers, exercise, stretching, mobilization, manipulation, adjustments, and more.  And if that is not enough there are perhaps as many as 40 adjusting techniques as well; Diversified is the most common, Gonstead I consider the best, Toftness, HIO, BEST, NUCA, drop, recoil, Logan basic, sacral-occipital technique, applied kinesiology, posture work, and a whole slew of others that I can't even remember.  Where does one begin?

            This may sound trite but I would begin at the beginning.  The first chiropractic adjustment in 1895 restored the hearing to Harvey Lillard.  Despite that miracle Dr. Palmer did not find the cure for all deafness, just Harvey's deafness.  If you read some of my shadow boxes and success stories you will find that chiropractic adjustments resolved Danette's asthma, but it does not cure all cases of asthma.  It took care of Andrew's ear infections, but it is not the answer to all ear infections.  Yolie's migraines stopped due to her adjustments, but not all migraines can be cured through chiropractic.  Think about this for a minute, I listed four different cases with four different symptoms in which each person got the same treatment (the adjustment) which allowed four very different conditions to resolve. 

           

            Imagine for just a moment the same four people going to a medical doctor for treatment, the first one is a deaf man, the second is a 2-1/2 year old asthmatic, the third is an 8 month old with 4 continuous months of ear infections, and the fourth is a middle aged woman with daily/constant headaches and migraines.  The deaf guy would get a hearing aid.  The asthmatic would get an inhaler, oral medications, and a nebulizer, the infant would get amoxicillin, and the woman would get pain killers.  But they came to the chiropractor and got just one thing, the adjustment, and the result is that all four had their long-standing conditions resolve.  And in all cases, the response was within just days to a month.  How can this be?  The answer is that regardless of the condition or symptom that you bring to the chiropractor, we have only one job, to detect and correct subluxation, aka spinal damage, that we all get from time/life/gravity.

            Now in reality, despite the multitude of techniques and treatments that various chiropractors employ, there are only 3 tools necessary to achieve maximum correction of subluxation.  Anything else that a chiropractor does to you is for some other reason, and you won't find any of that at this office.  I'm not saying that the extra stuff that chiropractors do is bad or unnecessary, it's just that with rare exception you only need the three tools to enjoy the benefits of a subluxation-free spine, the same tools we went over in my last article, the adjustment, deep tissue work, and regular stretching. 

            But what about this 4th tool in the title?  The 4th tool in my office is education.  After all, doctor is Latin for teacher, and more than adjustments, and stretching, and massage, you need the 4th tool to make good decisions for you and your family now and in the future.  Thanks for reading!!  

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     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.