Editor's note: This week's post is the seventh of nine short articles by the late Dr. Sanford Black.
Chiropractic Philosophy
Chiropractic Philosophy covers discussions of many different subjects. Many “How Comes”, “Whys?” and “Maybes”. One would think that after sixty years of direct Chiropractic and having been in active practice over fifty-four years this writer would be free of those unanswerable questions.
There has always been one question paramount in my mind. It has been asked of others many times and never seems to be taken seriously or given any important thought. The question can be stated very simply; “Why does the Innate response to different adjustments of different vertebra in different areas of the spine often result in a patient’s response being almost the same?”
The analysis and listing for a vertebral subluxation in the Atlanto-Occipital area will result in the Chiropractor adjusting and correcting the cause of many different subjective symptoms. The patient will be very pleased with the responses and be happy they were lucky to “Find a Good Chiropractor”.
Again this same patient may, at a different time and place, contact a different Chiropractor. Analysis and listings may cause this Chiropractor to decide that the first Thoracic Vertebra is subluxated and causing symptoms described in the initial consultation, and incidentally they are a group of symptoms very similar to the ones that the former Chiropractor dealt with successfully.
Why is success gained by both Chiropractors? Is it true that there is only one cause and one correction? Conversely, the question could be, “Why does a patient not respond to Vertebral Adjustments regardless of the analysis and listings? Does this mean that some patients have become “Hopeless Cases?”
An early days Chiropractor has often been quoted, “Get the Idea and All Else Follows”. Does this mean for a Chiropractor to find the vertebral subluxation, correctly adjust same and gorge ahead? Just like when the brown cow eats green grass and gives white milk?
