Chiropractic Founders Day 2022
When I was on the west coast I worked in a wholistic clinic where the entire person the aim of treatment not just a single disease process.This was an interventional envioronment which was multidisciplinary utilizing people from many different backgrounds on the treatment team.
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I became friends with a chiropractor named Steven M Foreman and we would grab a bite of lunch or engage in various endeavors as well as after hours goings on with his wife and children. We took an overnighter to Lake Arrowhead and it started snowing at the upper elevations. Steve could slap a set of chains on his tires like nobody's business. It was amazing.
He had several children then including two young boys and a set of infant twins who were new additions. He had a young child named Ben that I could hold seated in the palm of my hand. At that point in my life I was running miles and exercising daily. I am no longer capable of such antics, I can assure you.
He was immersed in his profession and engaged into presenting research papers on things like hemipelvectomy in conjunction with one of his little smartass chiropractor friends because it was "his" patient — and writing books on the technical aspects of whiplash and other injuries.
Today was have Chiropractic Founders Day. Chiropractic was founded on September 18, 1895 hence the date ...
Chiropractic is a system of integrative medicine based on the diagnosis and manipulative treatment of misalignments of the joints, especially those of the spinal column, which are held to cause other disorders by affecting the nerves, muscles, and organs.
The mechanism is characterized as nerve energies passing through the various nerves and is surprisingly similar to accupuncture.
A chiropractor is a practitioner of chiropractic and delivers health care based on the diagnosis and manipulative treatment of misalignments of the joints.
Chiropractors are identified primarily by the school from which they graduated. My friend was a Life Graduate from Life University in Georgia where they teach chiropractic and other aspects of wholistic health. There are also Palmer Graduates who attend the Palmer school which was one of the first. The Pettibon System is said to be a spine and posture correction methodology which provides pain relief, restores normal spinal form and function involving the patient in exercise program designed to correct those faults introduced there during activities of daily living.
So as I said September 18, 1895 was the date Chiropractic was founded. The medical industrial complex almost immediately went on the attack with the AMA publically decrying chiropractors as an "unscientific cult".
My friend was at the forefront of bringing chiropractic into full respectability via what he referred to as the grassroots movement which recognized the value of manipulations. He was also the first person I heard use the title 'physician' in conjunction with chiropractors and he was a vocal advocate for the profession for as long as we were close.
I dare say that by his staunch and vigorous advocacy for the field he was a founder of respectability in the field of chiropractic.
I can personally attest to the improvement those adjustments he administered to me helped and I dare say that had I remained in California I likely would have continued them from then until now.