A Historic Moment in World Medicine — Really!

Thursday, June 5th — On Tuesday, June 3rd, La Jolla’s own Seaside Chiropractic office was part of a truly historic moment in world medicine. There will no doubt be a press release about this event, but I want to add my own personal woo-hoo! and hooray! and It’s about time!

For the first time ever, and as far as we know, anywhere, medical Fellows are being required to obtain training in chiropractic as a condition of earning Board Certification in Pain Management. The School of Medicine at University of California San Diego (UCSD) has appointed Dr. David Klein to work with Fellows who aspire to Board Certification in Pain Management.  Dr. Mark Wallace, who runs the Pain Management Center at UCSD, has for several years routinely referred patients to Dr. Klein for chiropractic adjustment, to ease their symptoms of pain. Often the pain these patients were experiencing has been alleviated to a remarkable degree, or even completely eliminated, after Dr. Klein adjusted them. A testimonial letter from Dr. Wallace appears, in fact, on the Seaside Chiropractic website (http://www.bodyabcs.com/UCSD/SimpleDrWallace.html). The first Fellow to receive this on-site training from Dr. Klein spent the afternoon at Seaside Chiropractic on Tuesday afternoon! Dr. Klein will be demonstrating the use of chiropractic adjustment on various patients, as well as teaching these Fellows about how chiropractic works on the body, and how it can work in harmony with allopathic medicine to alleviate chronic pain in many instances.

I am absolutely thrilled about this development. I attended Dr. Wallace’s Pain Management Center for a time in the summer of 2007. He and his staff were very helpful to me in reducing the pain associated with discontinuing the large doses of opioids I had been taking for months, by prescription, to get me through three revisions of two hip replacements in a year. However, once I was off the Fentanyl, the “Pain Clinic” couldn’t offer me anything but more drugs to control my daily level of pain due to two pretty-much-disintegrated shoulders that were going to be replaced once I was able to walk without a cane. I can’t quite figure out why I didn’t get a recommendation to Dr. Klein at that point; maybe Dr. Wallace thought I was too old, or too far gone, to be a good candidate for chiropractic adjustment. I guess I’ll never know the answer. But I am delighted that his Fellows will now have some knowledge of what chiropractic can do to help people like me, and other sorts of folks who don’t want to be on huge doses of painkillers.

So three cheers for David Klein, his wonderful staff, and Seaside Chiropractic of La Jolla! I feel honored to have a connection with them all.

Thanks for reading — Betsy