What is an Adjustment in the Mind of a
Chiropractic Patient? Steven Arculeo, DC
A chiropractic adjustment is one of the single most important things that can be done to remove obstacles to achieving optimal health. But what is it in the public’s mind?
Is chiropractic the first choice for patients or is it the
last hope after everything else has failed?
Sadly, most prospective chiropractic patients do not understand the power of the adjustment and associate chiropractic with “cracking their back.” Something that can achieve pain relief in the best scenario and something that is to be feared in the worst case scenario.
Has this gotten better over time? Has chiropractic grown to gain more and more patients? Is chiropractic the first choice for patients or is it the last hope after everything else has failed? One could argue that the answer is obvious and it’s very evident from the opioid crisis we are now faced with. Chiropractic, to the uninformed, remains the last-ditch effort for many individuals in pain and is not considered a vital life changing treatment that is the cornerstone of health by most.
What other group of doctors must fight multi-billion dollar pharma and food industries on the behalf of patients that have been indoctrinated against health and the core fundamentals that establish it?
How does this affect chiropractors, having to constantly defend chiropractic over and over? Justifying that it is so much more than just “cracking” someone’s back. That chiropractic is more than just pain relief. Doesn’t it become tiresome explaining this time and time again? Does a cardiologist need to explain that poor blood flow is bad for you? That is never questioned. It is assumed and understood that the restricted flow of blood is not healthy. Does it not logically follow then that the restricted flow of anything vital to health in the body is also not good?
Chiropractic has struggled for years with these issues. However, chiropractic is beginning to gain traction. Over the past couple decades the technology involved in instrument adjusting has dramatically improved—so much so that it has even been recognized in the prestigious medical journal SPINE.
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