In San Diego today, there is probably the highest concentration of \t\t\tchiropractors to individuals of just about any place on the planet. \t\t\tIt is an interesting state because there are many, many people, \t\t\tbut there is a high ratio of chiropractors to individuals.<\/p>\n
One would think then that the chiropractors of San Diego \t\t\twould be doing everything they possibly could to maximize the \t\t\tpercentage of the population who comes under chiropractic care. \t\t\tThe interesting thing is that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually take place, at least \t\t\tfor the majority of the chiropractors.<\/p>\n
There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two main things \t\t\tthat I see missing from them. Number one, even with the ratio of \t\t\tso many chiropractors to people here, the number of chiropractors \t\t\twho go out to actively do education and promotional campaigns, \t\t\tto attract these people who have never been into the chiropractors \t\t\toffice and to educate them about chiropractic is actually quite low.<\/p>\n
I find it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a very small percentage of the chiropractic offices who \t\t\tdo things on an ongoing regular basis to reach out to educate the \t\t\tpopulation about the almost miraculous benefits that chiropractic \t\t\tcan provide in their life, over their lifetime. Most patients have \t\t\tbeen so brainwashed in terms of the benefits of pharmaceutical drugs \t\t\tfor getting rid of their symptoms, that it takes a tremendous amount \t\t\tof education to get them to really understand that health means your \t\t\tbody is functioning properly in all areas and at all levels, and that \t\t\tmealy feeling good is not necessarily and indication of being healthy.<\/p>\n
In fact many times the people I have met who had the most serious \t\t\tdiseases such as cancer, stoke, heart attack, immediately before they \t\t\twere diagnosed with their diseases were actually feeling fine. \t\t\tWe have one patient who had gone in for a mammogram and her doctor \t\t\thad told her she was completely healthy, absolutely nothing wrong, \t\t\tand six months later she had breast cancer that had spread out of the \t\t\tbreast area and into other parts of her body and it almost killed her.<\/p>\n
Needless to say feeling good does not necessarily mean you are healthy, \t\t\tand the more testing you could do of valid health indicators, \t\t\tassuming of course that they are low cost, the much safer it is for \t\t\tthe individual. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why things like pap smears and mammograms and \t\t\talso having a chiropractor check you spine on a regular basis are so \t\t\tvital to making sure you are healthy. I know my dentist \t\t\tDr. Steven Schneider in Poway has me come back at least every \t\t\tsix months to have my teeth checked. When I really pinned him \t\t\tdown on it he said if I am able to afford it, it is even healthier to \t\t\tget checked out more often especially if you teeth are prone to decay \t\t\tlike mine are.<\/p>\n
So needless to say chiropractors need to educate patients \t\t\tnot just about chiropractic but also about the importance of getting their \t\t\thealth checked in objective measurable ways as opposed to simply judging \t\t\ttheir health by the way they feel. This is where I also see many \t\t\tchiropractic offices in San Diego come way below the target on this \t\t\tbecause they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do either no education, very little education. \t\t\tIf they do educate their patients they educate them about important \t\t\tthings such as nutrition and exercise, but when checking the patients \t\t\tI find out the patient\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even understand the absolute basics \t\t\tof chiropractic. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true for the majority of San Diego chiropractic \t\t\toffices that I have seen.<\/p>\n
A good way a chiropractor can test \t\t\tif his patients actually understand chiropractic, or a way that you can \t\t\tcheck to see if you actually understand chiropractic, see if you \t\t\tcan out loud actually answer these questions: \t\t\tWhat is chiropractic?
\nWhat is a subluxation?
\nOther than going by how I feel,
\nwhich is an unreliable measurement of health,
\nhow do I know if I need to go to the chiropractor or not?
\nIf I am going to a chiropractor intensively, \t\t\thow do I know when I am done?
\nIf I am being treated for something such as a car accident injury \t\t\t or an automobile injury and the doctor wants to see me intensively, \t\t\t how do I know when I have been seen enough?
\nCan you describe what a nerve is?
\nCan you describe what a cell is?
\nCan you give a simple definition of what a symptom is \t\t\tor what a disease is?
\nIf you find that either yourself or if you find your patients failed to \t\t\teasily answer these simple questions, then your patients haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t \t\t\tbeen educated enough about chiropractic.<\/p>\n
This became such an issue in my office, \t\t\tthat I went out of my way to create a book, \t\t\twhich you can find on this website. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called \t\t\tWhat You Need to Know, and it was written as my gift \t\t\tto the entire population of the world as a way for \t\t\tpeople to learn more about chiropractic.<\/p>\n
It more than any other educational material that \t\t\tI have ever seen can take someone who knows nothing \t\t\tabout chiropractic and let them sit down for 10 or 20 \t\t\tminutes and if they really studied it and really understand \t\t\twhat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the book, they have a deeper understanding of \t\t\tchiropractic than almost any other non-chiropractor \t\t\tthat I have ever met.<\/p>\n
Of course at our office we also \t\t\tuse the patient progress graph developed by the greatest \t\t\tchiropractic educator that has ever lived, Dr. David Singer. \t\t\tWhat this graph allows us to do is to judge our patients progress, \t\t\tnot by how they feel but by the changes in their body \t\t\tthat are actually measurable by a good chiropractor. \t\t\tReal simply it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a graph. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go by how a patient \t\t\tfeels but instead measures the progress over time of the changes \t\t\tin their bones and what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stuck and what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s moving and how \t\t\ttheir posture is coming along and graphs it over time. Any \t\t\thuman being be it a patient and insurance company \t\t\tor another chiropractor can simply look at the graph and check it.<\/p>\n
If the graph is going up the patient is getting better \t\t\tchiropractically, if the graph is going down the patient \t\t\tis getting worse chiropractically. If the graph is flattened \t\t\tout at a higher level than they started then that means that \t\t\tusing the techniques that the chiropractor is using \t\t\tand with the patient, doing the things that they are \t\t\tcurrently doing in their life the patient has reached \t\t\tthe maximum possible improvement.<\/p>\n
I have found after working \t\t\ton so many thousands of patients over the past 15 years, \t\t\tthat it is simply not possible for a chiropractor to only \t\t\tgo by how a patient feels, and make any kind of an accurate \t\t\testimate on what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening to the structure of a patients spine.<\/p>\n
It would be like judging a dogs health by how much it is barking. \t\t\tIf a dog is barking a lot it does not necessarily mean a dog is sick, \t\t\tit may be very healthy. If a dog is very quiet it may be very \t\t\thealthy but it may also be very sick.<\/p>\n
I have found that chiropractors who take written notes in their files \t\t\tof what bones were out of alignment and stuck on each visit \t\t\talso have great difficulty in determining if a patient has \t\t\treached maximum improvement.<\/p>\n
In my mind, and I believe in the mind of most people, \t\t\tif they simply look at a lot of data written down in numbers and \t\t\tsymbols on a piece of paper they cannot make a good estimation \t\t\tover time of whether things are improving or not, unless \t\t\tthat information is put into the form of a graph.<\/p>\n
I found that with my stocks, if I simply look at a list of \t\t\tthe prices they have been at I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t easily see how they are \t\t\tdoing over time. \t\t\tIf I make it into a graph the information becomes much clearer.<\/p>\n
Now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just the chiropractors I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m criticizing, \t\t\tit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also the medical doctors. \t\t\tI have often heard of medical doctors by \t\t\tand large asking their patients how they were feeling. \t\t\tWhat I would love to see would be a medical doctor do \t\t\tan overall assessment of my health numerically and then \t\t\trecheck it periodically and to see how each of those findings \t\t\twere improving over time. Instead they usually just look the one \t\t\tthing that might be wrong with the person at the moment \t\t\twhich is within a dangerous range, such as high blood pressure, \t\t\tor some other test being off. Instead they can keep \t\t\ttrack of all findings in the normal range as well as those \t\t\tthings in the abnormal ranges. This way when some finding \t\t\tbegins to get a little worse, the person may have the chance to \t\t\tcorrect some aspect of their health before a serious illness sets in.<\/p>\n
So if you have a chiropractor tell your chiropractor \t\t\tthat you want him to go out and meet more people to help them. \t\t\tThere are still about 95% of the people in San Diego \t\t\twho don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t regularly go to chiropractors. \t\t\tAnd also if you are a chiropractic patient demand from your \t\t\tchiropractor that he takes the time to help you fully understand \t\t\tchiropractic inside and out, and not just glossing over it at a \t\t\tsuperficial level regarding how you feel.<\/p>\n
Bottom line, find a good chiropractor and ask them to teach you \t\t\tall you need to know about chiropractic, and ask your medical doctor \t\t\tto measure your health using objective findings, and not just to go \t\t\tby how you feel.<\/p>\n
Little disclaimer, ask your doctor before acting on this or any other medical advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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