There was a moment in Chicago, a few decades ago, where at 10am on a Sunday, I was tapped on the shoulder and asked to check the son of one of the other chiropractors at the conference. He was a young, thin man writhing in pain on a hotel bed with severe low back and SI-joint pain that had started several weeks ago and had climaxed into debilitating pain that morning. I was briefed on how both SI joints had been adjusted, the lower back had been adjusted, the hips had been adjusted, but there was no relief; if anything, the boy was getting symptomatically worse. I observed and then palpated. Then I made a specific contact using only a few ounces of pressure with the base of my palm to the twisted side of the boy’s pubic bone. Within minutes, the pain that had been there for weeks was gone. He said, “Was that all”? I said, “yes”. Sometimes the gold is practically lying on the ground, invisible to most, but the chiropractor is trained to see the body differently. One of the worst travesties that could befall the profession is if we were to borrow the eyes of another profession.
Most people would like to find gold, especially if it was sitting on the top of the ground or required only one scoop of a shovel to unearth big nuggets. But the reality of gold is that for most, it requires a plan, effort, and time to learn where to dig for gold and
the techniques required to remove it from the earth and the courage to not stop when the environment is cold, harsh, and unwelcoming.
The damages to a spine may be chronic, but there is always a priority, a best place to start to unwind the damage, the best place to mine for gold.
What are the secrets to finding the chiropractic gold? First, you must be able to see the area of highest priority at any given moment and understand that that area can and will change. Second, make one adjustment at a time, allowing the body to respond. Third, re-check the patient after your correction. It is here where you may find the next area of highest priority, the next area that needs to be adjusted. No image if this cycle was to repeat: find the highest priority, adjust, rest, re-check in a space without any distraction or limitations until the person’s spine was within normal limits of motion and alignment in all vertebrae, nervous system unhampered by any physical interference. How would that body move, think, feel, act, age?
That would be a body worth its weight in gold.
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