When speaking in public, I often have a few people hang around after the talk to ask about their specific health ailments. One phrase I hear in common is, “I’ve tried everything.” I often defer to, “have you tried chiropractic?” Their response is either, “I used to go after a car accident,” or “you think that would help?”
Yes, I do think it would help. That’s not just because I’m a chiropractor. On September 11, 2001, the day I started chiropractic college, I had never been adjusted. Like these people at my workshops, I too never associated chiropractic with anything other a treatment for neck and back pain. The more I researched, I chose to go to chiropractic college because as a profession, the principles and philosophy were the closest match to how I wanted to help change people’s lives. It had the scope that allowed me to gear my clinic towards lifestyle interventions.
What left the biggest impact on my life was how my own personal health changed as a result of being a chiropractic patient. I struggled with eczema through college so bad that if I opened my hand, it would crack and often times bleed. Even with cleaning up my diet, the more stressed I got, the more the eczema would flare.