Chiropractic is Specific or it's Nothing.

"Chiropractic is specific or it's nothing"
- BJ Palmer

“When I had absorbed all the knowledge I could in the allotted time, I determined to take some instruments home with me and give them a fair trial. I was forced to admit that it was working there, and I wanted to see if it would work for me. I started slowly on old patients who felt they had received great benefit from so-called adjustments to the lower spine; giving them what they wanted as well as specific technique. New patients received nothing but specific work and I kept a careful record of all cases to see how they were progressing. It soon became evident that both principles would not work at the same time. The pre-check would show good progress and then when I manipulated the lower spine, the post-check would show more interference had been created in the upper cervicals; also I was getting much better results on the cases  which were getting nothing but specific Chiropractic. At the end of two months, I confined myself exclusively to specific work, and without exception all of my old patients made better progress. It was the most wonderful and thrilling experience in 18 years of practice. Patients were not only pleased because they were getting well faster, they were better satisfied because they could perceive the logic behind only adjusting when nerve pressure was proven to exist; and they were happy when no adjustment was necessary.”  

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