Leonard McGill - The Chiropractors Self-Help Book: The Ultimate Self-Help Guide for Chiropractic Patients

The

Chiropractors

Self-Help

Book

The Ultimate Self-Help Guide for Chiropractic Patients

The

Chiropractors

Self-Help Book

The Ultimate Self-Help Guide for Chiropractic Patients

Dr. Leonard McGill

Indialantic Publishing

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Disclaimer

The exercises and advice contained within this book may be too strenuous or dangerous for some people, and the reader(s) should consult a physician before engaging in them.

The author and publisher of this book are not responsible in any manner whatsoever for any injury which may occur through reading and following the instructions herein.

ISBN 1-4243-0686-8

For Chiropractic Patients EverywhereSpread the Word.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Thank you to all of my chiropractic colleagues past and present, here in the United States and around the world, who are working to develop and spread the greatest healing art in the world.

The

Chiropractors

Self-Help

Book

The Ultimate Self-Help Guide for Chiropractic Patients

Most people think chiropractors deal with relieving back pain, neck pain and headaches. The truth is, chiropractic started by helping people with much more serious problems.

It was September 18, 1895 in Davenport, Iowa. Harvey Lillard, who was deaf, was working as a janitor, cleaning the offices of Dr. D.D. Palmer. Palmer knew that Lillard had not always been deaf, because the man could speak. The doctor inquired how he had lost his hearing (perhaps he wrote on a slip of paper, perhaps Lilliard could read his lips).

Lillard said he had been working in a stooped position one day when something gave in his back. Soon afterwards, his hearing faded. Palmer asked Lillard if he might examine him and the janitor agreed, lying down. A large lump could be seen on his neck. It appeared as though a bone there had become misaligned.

Palmer received permission to try putting the bone back into place. Placing his hands on Lillards spine, the doctor gave a thrust. There was a soft pop.

It was a hot day in Davenport and the windows were open. Lillard got off the table. His eyes grew wide as he went to the windows and leaned out. Dr. Palmer! he cried. I can hear the wagon wheels on the cobblestone! With one spinal adjustment, Lillard recovered his hearing.

D.D Palmer

Harvey Lillard

Palmer first thought he had discovered a cure for deafness but soon realized something else was at work.

Shortly after this relief from deafness, I had a case of heart trouble which was not improving, Palmer later wrote. I examined the spine and found a displaced vertebra pressing against the nerves which innervate (go to) the heart. I adjusted the vertebra and gave immediate relief. Then I began to reason that if two diseases, so dissimilar as deafness and heart trouble, came from impingement, a pressure on nerves, were not other diseases due to a similar cause?

Palmer began developing his hand treatments, and was soon getting results with many different conditionsasthma, colic, ear infections, digestion problems, neck and back pains, headachesvirtually any ailment might be a candidate for the new healing art. Soon people from all over the country were traveling to Davenport for spinal adjustments.

Reverend Samuel Weed, one of Palmers first patients, gave the new profession a name. He took the Greek word for hand (cheir) and done by (praktos), combining them into chiropractic, meaning, done by hand.

D.D. went on to found the Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport, and the profession grew quickly. Today there are more than 60,000 chiropractors across the globe.

Chiropractic is a philosophy, art and science of things natural a system by which the flow of life is released and increased in your body a plan of living, involving in its makeup everything that is essential to the vigorous and healthful performance of all the functions of life.

More than two dozen colleges worldwide graduate thousands of spinal experts each year, making chiropractic the fastest growing health care profession in the world. According to Time magazine, one out of 20 people will visit a chiropractor this year, and this number is expected to double in the next ten years.

Chiropractic is growing so fast because it works. People are also realizing that drugs and surgery, while necessary at times, arent the best ways to get or stay healthy. As one of my friends says, If drugs are so dangerous to take when youre pregnant, why do doctors want to give them to our children? Another likes to ask his patients considering surgery, Have you ever cut anything that made it more whole?

Ask yourself, Do I want more drugs and surgeries in my life? Most people answer no, realizing medical intervention only attempts to fix ill health. I often pose this question to patients: Can you imagine walking into your local emergency room and saying, Listen, I feel fantastic today and I want to feel better. Check me in!

Medicines focus on treating problems keeps it from being a tool we can use to attain total wellness and peak performance. In my clinic, if a healthy person comes in and wants to get healthier, I can virtually guarantee them that under chiropractic care they will experience more energy, better digestion, better sleep, increased athletic performance and fewer colds and diseases.

A chiropractor shared this story with me recently: His mother-in-law died after a six-week stay in a major hospitals intensive care unit. Several heroic surgeries were attempted to save the womans life, to no avail. Her bill for six weeks in the hospital: $400,000.

The chiropractor said, What if my mother-in-law were able to take $400,000 when she was 21-years-old and invested it in her health? What if she joined the best health club, ate the most wholesome foods and enjoyed chiropractic care to keep her body in top shape? Do you realize it would be nearly impossible to spend $400,000 in your lifetime on staying healthy, yet you can spend it in six weeks on being sick!