After seeing maybe at least 50,000 patients in my career, I’ve decided to do very un-technical reviews of some cases that I can still remember. I hope you can get something out of this.
A 20 year old female college student called me in a severe agitated state with a complaint about every part of her body and it was hard to determine which one was her chief complaint. I knew if she went to an emergency room she would have been given psyche meds, but on the other hand there was never a case like this when I was in school, clinic, or when I worked in a hospital. If I would have seen something this intense when I came out of school I probably would have quit right then and there. But over the decades, I learned a lot of stuff that they never taught me.
Long story short, I decided to just do some very basic chiropractic treatment since that is what got us on the map. Afterwards, she stated that all of her complaints were about 80% relieved. Now she seemed angry that she still had some residual pains in her arms, legs, and head. Of course I explained to her if she would have received results like this at a hospital it would be all over the news and she still insisted on asking why did she still feel a little uncomfortable. For a doctor it seems simple enough to understand that when you have pain generated from spinal joints, that those highly innervated joints, innervated with the largest, fastest most powerful nerves in your body, are still going to be irritated after treatment. It is called inflammation and it takes awhile for that to calm down. With an 80% abatement in all symptoms, that is probably the best explanation possible for not feeling perfectly normal, which she did about two days later.
The point of this case was to point out that most people have no idea just how wonderful an outcome they could possibly get with a good ole fashioned chiropractic adjustment. Sure it is made fun of on T.V., but we’re not selling drugs in order to get people to feel better and more importantly actually be better. You could be feeling great on the golf course and then suddenly drop dead from a heart attack, but that person was feeling good, well until he wasn’t. In other words, our bodies are not wired to determine how healthy we are by how we feel. As much as I understand this, the general public wants to feel instantly better and chiropractors have a hard time convincing them how their body really works.
