The intersection of the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic and early chiropractic history provides a fascinating window into early 20th-century healthcare. The historical statistics commonly cited by the chiropractic profession, alongside the specific details of Dr. McMurrain’s life and service record, reveal how the crisis served as a pivotal historical milestone for chiropractic. 1. Early 20th-Century Chiropractic Statistics...
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Why Cost-effective Chiropractor Fees and the Right Margaret River Chiropractor Matter
Cost is a real consideration in healthcare decisions and pretending otherwise does not help anyone make a better choice. Affordable Chiropractor Fees are not about finding the cheapest option. They are about finding genuine value. Some practices charge premium prices because their care genuinely warrants it. Others charge premium prices because their marketing does and...
What Objective Chiropractic Actually Means and Why It Changes Everything About the Care You Receive
Most people arrive at a chiropractor's office with a symptom. Something hurts, something is stiff, something has been bothering them long enough that they finally decided to do something about it. The treatment they receive is usually directed at that symptom and the measure of whether it worked is whether the symptom improved. That is...
The genius of objective chiropractic
The Genius of Objective Chiropractic My apology for paraphrasing the scriptural monument that François René de Chateaubriand published in 1802. This is my humble contribution to the dissemination of what R.W. Stephenson wrote in 1927 enunciating the thirty three principles on which chiropractic is based. This is original chiropractic; over the years the practice of...
The great paradox: how objective chiropractic helps people regain and maintain health while not treating symptoms
The great paradox: how objective chiropractic helps people regain and maintain health, while not treating symptoms. I do not treat symptoms like pain, stiffness, paresthesia and other diseases and yet many persons get their energy liberated and regain health! It is a blessing for me being in this profession practicing objective chiropractic; its principle is...
The kink in the hose as an analogy to the effect of a vertebral subluxation
This vintage drawing depicting the effect of a vertebral subluxation was published by Dr BJ Palmer in "The subluxation specific - the adjustment specific" The garden is deprived of water due to the kink in the hose; without knowing that the kink in the hose is the cause, one would add water from another source...
The brain is the conductor by Bruce Lipton
Bruce! another demonstration of your brilliant pedagogic talent to show how the autonomic nervous system is essential to harmony i.e.health. In a future newsletter, may be another analogy demonstrating how what chiropractors call a vertebral subluxation can be detrimental to health and how beneficial is the specific chiropractic adjustment. More to come, although you have...
Who would like to instantly heal better?
« Chiropractic is not about making you instantly feel better, it's about making you instantly heal better » I like this saying from chiropractor Kristian Baekkel and I wish all chiropractors would explain to their practice members that chiropractic is not an alternative to pain killers of any kind whether chemical, physical or psychological. Surely...
Is chiropractic care for everyone?
Is chiropractic care for everyone?... Yes and NoYes, because any vertebrate is prone to vertebral subluxation!No, because it takes some lateral thinking outside the box of the beaten track, and conventionalism prevents some people in thinking and acting intelligently!We are used when we are sick, to think in term of suppressing pain and diseases (outside in...
The spine is a mandatory pathway
The spine is a mandatory pathway between brain and organs; a vertebral subluxation interferes with normal controls and dis-ease results which in turn leads to full fledge diseases. A chiropractic adjustment gives the body a better chance to heal. So healing depends entirely upon the effectiveness of the living body and this is why no...