Story Telling

Every Chiropractic patient has a story to tell. What’s yours?

What were you like when you first began care? How bad was it? Were you in pain? Was it physical, mental, emotional? Did you try other forms of health care first? Was the change immediate, or did it occur gradually?

What else changed other than what you came in for? It is very common for folks to come for care with a back pain or headache just to realize that Chiropractic has helped them sleep better, hear better, or see well. Or they realize that their allergies don’t bother them nearly as bad as they used to. Often we hear “Doc, I started with you for neck pain and now I’m off my (“asthma”) medication.

Did Chiropractic save your life? If it weren’t for Chiropractic would you be doing things you are doing today? Most people think of saving lives as a big dramatic rescue where the fireman rushes in and carries the child out of the burning house. What about someone who couldn’t walk for themselves and because they were adjusted can now. Or they can keep their job instead of taking a medical “retirement” package. I wonder how many people could be like my nephew and truly have a life because a chiropractic adjustment was administered “behind closed doors.” When enough people are talking about the benefits of Chiropractic, we Chiropractors won’t have to close the doors when we go to the hospitals.

Part of our mission has always been and remains to be, to empty the hospitals and fill the Chiropractic offices. Until that day comes, I and all other Chiropractors around the globe need your help in telling the Chiropractic story to everyone you know. And the story is simple:

The power that makes the body heals the body.

That power (God) uses the nerve system as wires coordinating all the functions in the body. Anything that interferes with the power creates dis-ease in the body and the body malfunctions. Removing the interference allows the body to operate as created.

It is that simple.

“Simple solutions were placed in the minds of simple men to plague the minds of complicated men.” – Albert Einstein

Tell your story.

Thank you.

Plumbing Chiropractic

Have you ever had a clog in your toilet or sink? I hate having to clean up that mess. All of the water on the floor and the gunk lodged at the bottom. It’s not a fun situation for any home owner. Having a subluxation is no different.

Just as the plumbing in your home is built to move water throughout your home keeping it safe and clean, your nerves are built to move your internal innate intelligence through your body keeping the body healthy. A subluxation causes bodily functions to back up just as clogged plumbing causes your toilet or sink to back up. In your body, it can be your lungs, heart, muscles or intestines that are affected.

Adjustments free up the flow of innate intelligence (or Life Force) like taking a plunger to the backed up plumbing. It releases the blockage thus restoring flow.

To further illustrate my point, I’ll paraphrase from a classic Chiropractic text, “Fame and Fortune,” by BJ Palmer, 1955, pg 40:

Here is a simple example of what we mean when we say don’t try to FORCE innate…Did you ever suffer from constipation, go to stool, and try to … force a BM? The harder you forced, the less results. If you would sit, relax, … think of something else, take your mind away from a BM, let INNATE do the work, give INNATE full direction and action, better results follow.

Describe a time in your life when you have allowed innate to take control.

Describe a time in your life when you did not allow innate to take control.

Describe the difference.

MD vs. DVM

 

If you knew you had a medical situation, lets say an accident, but you couldn’t talk to tell the doctor what was going on would you want your MD to look at you?  Or would you want a Veterinarian?  I know most of you reading this right now are asking, why would I take myself to a vet?  But think about the situation for a moment.  You can’t talk.

 

MDs examine based on what you tell them.  It hurts here.  I feel pain here.  It makes me tired.  It’s all verbal.  Then based on what you tell them, they perform their examination.

 

A vet on the other hand deals with beings (animals) that don’t talk to begin with.  I remember when my turtle was vomiting.  That’s all I told the vet, “My turtle is vomiting.”  “Does he act like a healthy turtle” was the primary question.  “No” was my simple answer.  The vet kept him overnight watched him swim, observed him eat and how the turtle acted.  Then he performed an examination and took x-rays.  Turns out he ate some bad food.

 

Last week someone brought their dog into the office.  He had been limping for a week or so.  Poor guy didn’t want to walk or go outside and was just laying around the house.  Needless to say he wasn’t himself.  So I examined him and found that his pelvis was subluxated and adjusted it.  Like the vet, I observed him walking (limping) around and his attitude and demeanor.  The owner left a message on Friday morning that he was doing much better, that his walking had improved and he was asking to go out again.  I didn’t ask any questions of the owner, it was just what do I see is going on.

 

It is no different with a human who comes to Chiropractic.  What we see and find on the examination is more pertinent that what is said.  That is because a pain can be in your leg but the problem is in your spine.  Or, you can have a tummy ache but the cause is with the nerve serving the stomach.  As humans we tend to tell what we sense, or the expression of the problem.  Not the problem itself.  Discovery of the problem itself comes from observation and examination.

 

If you have a friend, family member, or co-worker, (or anyone for that matter) who have told every doctor they’ve seen what’s going on with them; and if they have done so without help, tell them to contact us.

Feeling

It is so common to hear the question “how are you feeling” when you see a doctor.  We always come up with our pre-programmed responses of “great” or “well” or “doc, my back hurts.”  I find it rare that people think of the other meaning of the question.  I find it even rarer still that doctors ask the question to elicit the other meaning of the question.

 

How…are you feeling?

 

It is one thing to feel as in a symptom.  I feel great, I feel like crap.  It’s another to feel.  I mean this “feel” as in the way a driver gets the feel for a car.  Or an athlete gets a feel for the game.

 

Mothers…have you ever had that gut “feeling” that something just happened.  That recently happened to one of our own.  One night she couldn’t sleep and had a “feeling” that something had happened to her son.  Turns out her son went to the casino that night and the driver fell asleep at the wheel and flipped the car.  All involved were ok.  But that feeling never left until her son walked in the door and told here what happened. 

 

I do it all the time, I’m sure you do as well whether you know it or not.  I feel like there is something I have to do.  When I realize I forgot to pay the bills, I have that “ah-ha” moment and get it done.  Or, “where did I leave the car keys” and that little voice inside says “check your pants from last night”….Ohhhhh yeah!!!  I put them in my pocket after I came inside the house.  You got a feeling of where the keys are.

 

Have you ever been lost and found your way?  “I feel like I need to take a right onto this road” you may have said to yourself.  Then a left and a straight and soon you end up in familiar surroundings.  You had a feel for the road.

 

I have two places that I feel from, my gut and my heart.  When it is my gut, I tend to put up my guard and turn on the radar looking for something to happen.  When the feeling is in my heart, I know something good just happened or is about to.

 

There is no secret that physically we use our nerves to feel.  It is our nerve system that elicits the sensation of feel.  But our nerves are a physical entity, how do they know what is going on around us?  Don’t cadavers have nerves?  Do they feel?  Of course not, they are not ALIVE.  Rather, the “feeling” comes from our own innate and inner being.  It is our intuition regarding the world around us.  It is our connection to God where we are a receiving station being told “heads up,” for better or worse.  The closer that connection to the Lord, the more often you’ll feel out situations.

 

Just remember, we were designed with the ability to feel.  It is healthy for us to feel.  We can’t feel love without knowing what it is to feel pain.  We can’t feel laughter without feeling sadness.  They go together, Yin and Yang, pros and cons, Abbot and Costello. 

 

Likewise when we pay attention to our bodies we learn to truly feel.