The Chiropractic Gold Mine
Avery N. Martin BS, DC
One of my favorite memories of my years in Alaska was having a gold mine. It was remote. Alaskan remote, requiring 10 hours of careful driving down questionably maintained roads, then a flight in a 4 or 6-seater plane, then a second flight in often a smaller and more flimsy-looking plane onto a make-believe landing strip on the side of the mountain. Truly, it was just a slight flat, slightly cleared patch of earth. Yet, for this effort to go where few others were willing to go, we made a small fortune in raw gold.
I often think about the chiropractic gold mine. Right in your two hands, your heart, and your education if you are only willing to dig a little deeper and push away the dirt and clay to unearth the raw gold.
In chiropractic school, we learned about the human structure, and the basics of physiology, how all functions, tissues, and systems lead back to the spine, brain, and nervous system. We learned that the body has intelligence. Something a five-year-old child knows the first time they watch a cut finger mend together over days, yet often chiropractors forget when their health goes sideways. In school, we learned about interference and how the slight aberrations in alignment or motion can cause interference with neurological transmission
over these effervescent neurological pathways that balance the entire human experience. Lastly, we learned to correct those sites of abnormal motion and alignment, often imperfectly, yet the patient’s body responds because that is what the human body was designed to do, it was designed to heal and function and adjust and bring itself back into homeostasis. It was designed to repair, regenerate, and function. All it needs is no interference.
Over the almost 50 years of practice, the most commonly voiced question I have heard is, “How do I find the subluxation?” The wiser question might be, “How do I find the highest priority subluxation?” Because a damaged spine doesn’t present with one, two, or three subluxations. A damaged spine presents like a complicated knot that must be carefully and gently unwound and released so that the underlying rope can take the shape and function it was designed to have. Changing one’s perspective from “providing an adjustment” to “providing an adjustment in the area of highest priority” might be the difference between gold panning in a muddy puddle in the middle of the tulip fields and gold panning in a wild claim in the secret areas of Alaska. In one area location, you are pretty much guaranteed gold, even when the technique is the same.
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