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Chiropractic Discovered


In 1895 Daniel David Palmer, a magnetic healer in Davenport, Iowa, discovered that it was possible to selectively move a single vertebra by using the spinous processes as levers. Inadvertently he discovered that pressure on the spinal cord can Daniel David Palmerbe the cause of a physical ailment or impairment. This discovery, like many others that have changed the course of history, was by accident. It wasn't an accident that he used his new found principle to apply a force into the neck of his janitor, no that was by design. The janitor told Dr. Palmer that he had lost his hearing for 17 years after he felt something pop in his neck. Dr. Palmer examined Harvey Lillard's neck and discovered a "bump". Dr. Palmer reasoned that the bump was the result of a vertebra (bone) that was misaligned. He reasoned further that it may be possible to re-align the vertebra by pressing on it. He pressed on the bump in Harvey Lillard's neck and Harvey is said to have remarked, "Mr. Palmer I can hear the trolleys down in the street." Dr. Palmer thought that he had discovered the cause of all deafness. He later discovered that there are many causes for deafness and that not every deaf person had the "bump" in the neck. He further discovered that other patients with a neck bump responded to spinal adjustments by general improvement in their overall health.

B.J. PalmerDr. Palmer and his son Bartlet Joshua Palmer reasoned that pressure on the spinal cord led to reduced resistance, and could be the reason people got sick. Dr. Palmer was convinced that there was only one cause of illness and he spent the remainder of his life in the quest to find it.

Also in 1895, X-ray was discovered. Medical science decided it was of no practical value; BJ Palmer on the other hand was convinced that X-rays would help chiropractors and he is responsible for developing X-ray techniques that are still used today. The principles of chiropractic care developed in the early 1900's along with those of X-ray, are still being used today.

Patients by the thousands continued to seek chiropractic care in spite of an organized medical attack. Chiropractors continued to practice and witness the favorable results of chiropractic care even though they could not rely on scientific statement verifying their work. They knew it worked, their patients knew it worked, they didn't know exactly why and didn't care.

Today science has a better understanding of human anatomy and how the body works. We know that the Central Nervous System controls everything all of the time in healthy people. Medical science has not yet discovered what causes the Central Nervous System to fail. Nor for that matter are they even looking in that direction. Science continues to look at, and study the parts of the defense network and yet are blind to the concept that it is a network. The parts do not equal the whole. They continue to study histamines, white blood cells, T cells, microphages, macrophages, hormones, endorphins, DNA and on and on. They are looking at the actors and ignoring the play. In 1895 DD Palmer, a magnetic healer knew all of this innately; He could not have explained it, just as the chiropractors in the early days could not have explained it. They just knew it. Today chiropractors know it. Medicine is still searching.

 
When Will I Get Better?

This has been bothering me for six months, can't you fix it now?

bodyHealing is as complicated as the injury(s) and may be complicated by repeated injury over a lifetime. The answer is found in a number of questions: were you born in a hospital, your age, lifestyle, trauma history, posture (both awake and asleep), work posture, prior injuries, poor nutrition, inadequate rest and lack of regular exercise.

If the sum of negative survival values are higher than the sum of positive survival values, the prognosis is not good.

Medical research on joint injury states that Phase one lasts 72-96 hours and is characterized by reduced range of motion, severe constant sharp pain, edema, spasm, redness. Phase two takes 6-8 weeks at which time new tissue is laid down in a random pattern and is characterized by increased range of motion, often with pain, chronic pain that waxes and wanes, with episodes of exacerbation of the original pain as the activities of daily living increase. Phase three usually takes 12 months and in some cases up to 36 months, in which ten percent of these cases will have a lifetime of pain or discomfort daily.

When will you get better? Each day you get a little better than you were yesterday. Provided you increase the positive survival values and decrease the negative survival values.

 
It's Not My Job

If you want to be healthy...happy and pain free. Don't think for a minute...you can give that job to me. You've spent a lifetime...to get you this way...you'll need one more lifetime to get back to the way you remember you were...and how you want to be.

Your job is to learn all the bad things you've done. You'll find out from them...what you need to do...To undo the damage...You've done to you. You'll find all the bad things you've already done...are the same things you are doing...that...now...is not fun. This is the key to unlock the door...to a much brighter future that you have in store.

To be healthy, and happy and to live pain free...takes a lifetime of living...simply...each day. You need to examine the food that you eat...you know it's not right if it has too much fat, if all the vitamins and minerals were left in the vat. If it is loaded with sugar or salt it's not good...except for the company that processed the food.

You need to exercise, walk everyday...get back in shape then, to stay that way...at least three times a week work up a sweat...away from the job...do it each week...you won't be a slob.

To repair our inside with the food that we eat...rest...turns it to muscle...not marbled meat. With your feet firmly planted...without climbing a tree you'll find all you look at...now...you can see.

My job is to guide you...to the things you already know. Together we'll make... your life now to grow, more loving...more living...with a whole lot less strife. It will work...if you work it...for the rest of your life.

LINKS

Greystone USA - Manufacturers of Agricultural Vacuum Cleaners

Websites of Other Chiropractors

Jaffrey Chiropractic Health Center

Chiropractic Colleges


Sherman College of Straight Chiropractic

 


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Clarence Meyer, D.C. • Diane C. Kwasniewski, D.C.
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