In Volume XXIV- Fight to Climb, B.J. Palmer reprinted a number of news stories of people with various ailments that were miraculously cured after some kind of trauma. No one could explain the mechanism of recovery in each case.
I find this very interesting and it leads me to ask this question: just as a trauma can subluxate a person, can a trauma unsubluxate a person? What if the atlas or axis was jarred back into place by the actual trauma itself?
Now doctors, don’t get any ideas about smacking your patients/clients in the head with shovels. I don’t think that’s very effective for patient retention.
I only picked one example due to its relevance to the holiday season. Read it and let me know what you think.
Inadvertent upper cervical adjustment or unexplained miracle?
For many years we have collected thousands of reports from newspapers and magazines, of cases where individuals HAD AN ACCIDENT AND GOT SICK, HAD ANOTHER ACCIDENT AND GOT WELL. Medical men stand by aghast, offering no explanation as to why or how. Religious people say it was “a miracle from God”— “prayers were answered” etc.
Till advent of Chiropractic explanation in 1895, there HAD BEEN NO EXPLANATION offered which could be duplicated INTENTIONALLY by man. Today an ACCIDENT can occur and person get sick. That case can go to a Chiropractor and INTENTIONALLY get well by reversing principle of PROduction, by using same principle of REduction.
It would be tremendously interesting reading if we could print this series of thousands of cases in our collection. To do so would require books. We have picked a few as samples to prove the Chiropractor principle and practice:
“A Pat on the Back Restores Vet’s Power of Speech
“Tribune Leased Wire
“Ogden, Dec. 25 (1948).-A Christmas miracle Saturday enables a returned Ogden war hero to welcome his wife and family with a cheery ‘Merry Christmas’ after four long years of silence caused by a war wound.
“As a result of an accident, Parley P. Pratt, Jr., 32, of 100 Jefferson Ave., early this morning uttered his first words since suffering a wound in the neck in the Battle of the Bulge in 1945.
“Mr. Pratt had completed his night’s work for the Ogden Union Depot Company and was on his way home to spend Christmas Day with his family. He had trouble getting his car started and had just lifted the hood when he fell and struck his head against the running board of the car. He was picked up by a passer—by and, without realizing it, carried on a conversation telling how his car wasn’t operating and how he fell.
“It wasn’t until he met a neighbor later that he realized he had spoken. The shock was great and tears of joy streamed unashamed down his face. He greeted his wife, LaWren, with a cheery ‘Merry Christmas’ when he entered the front door.
“He has been a patient in veterans hospitals all over the country but specialists had told him he would never be able to speak above a whisper again.”
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I totally agree. If a trauma can cause the problem than a trauma can fix the problem. Concussion of forces. If they are of the right amount at the right place and right time they can be corrective in nature. Reminds me of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,
Cathrine: “You remember Ruby Sue?”
Frances: “Oh yeah. Oh my gosh, her eys aren’t crossed anymore.”
Eddie: “That’s something ain’t it? She falls in a well, eyes go crossed. She gets kicked by a mule, they go back to normal. I don’t know.”
Absolutely agree, and I have patients ask me that very question many times.
It’s a simple matter to explain to them that while it is possible that such a situation can occur and correct their injury without the need for care, the odds are stacked severely against it given the wide variety of forces and positions at which such an incident could occur and there being only 1 that would fix them with many of the others making things in stead much worse!
All I do is try to narrow down and provide that 1 force which is needed.
Very funny Travis!
I think we all remember that movie