This week has been an interesting learning experience. Between launching The Atlas of Life Chiropractic Directory and receiving a plethora of surprising responses in return, I feel a need to address some issues today.
First off, The Atlas of Life Chiropractic Directory WILL BE full spine and upper cervical, of which I will duly note the difference.
I believe chiropractic is the science, art, and philosophy of removing interference to the nervous system, thus allowing the Innate Intelligence to operate throughout the entire body. This is what subluxation-based chiropractors practice and preach, and these are the doctors I will allow on the directory.
Yes, this has been an Upper Cervical Chiropractic-focused blog for over a year now. I personally believe in the power of upper cervical. I think it is effective and gives the patient the biggest bang for their buck, so to speak. However, I have chilled out in the sense that I know other chiropractors help people, too.
When we lived in Phoenix, January went to see an AK chiropractor often. This doc was really great at what he did. He gave old-school heavy handed adjustments that, surprisingly, would hold for weeks at a time. His help was invaluable when January was pregnant with our third. We have been to other full spine chiropractors that did good work as well. We have also been to some bad ones, docs that chose to poke around on our daughter’s gall bladder area rather than check her atlas.
I have my opinions on chiropractic and I don’t expect everyone to agree with me. For example, I don’t believe a vertebral subluxation exists below C2. Am I right? I believe so, but that doesn’t mean I am. I know many others won’t agree with me, and I don’t expect them to.
Yes, I have been critical of other aspects of the profession. Going through school and having to learn nothing that pertains to real life practice was frustrating. I think minimizing chiropractic to the diagnosis and treatment of neuromuskuloskeletal conditions limits our great profession, and puts us on a dangerous path toward medical assimilation.
January and I have friends who have been to other chiropractors who have bruised them and milked their insurance. New Mexico allows chiropractors to prescribe low-level painkillers. The list goes on and on. I have been directing the blog’s focus more on patients, but my beliefs remain unchanged.
I feel like offering a directory on this site is a good service to both the chiropractors and the patients, and charging $35 a month or $350 up front for a year is fair. If you don’t think so, there’s no need to whine and cry. Just don’t sign up.
For Upper Cervical Chiropractors
Those of you who think I am selling out and just trying to make money, think about this:
- Upper Cervical Evolution will feature Dr. Jim Sigafoose and Dr. Patrick Gentempo, both full spine chiropractors.
- The 2008 Blair Conference featured Dr. Dan Murphy as the keynote speaker, a full spine chiropractor and Diplomate of the American Board of Chiropractic Orthopedists.
- The UCHC Practice Building seminar at the end of last year featured Dr. Reggie Gold as their keynote speaker.
- That Something Coaching Program put on their Synapse seminar last July featuring Dr. Joe Dispenza, a chiropractic neurologist.
- The NUCCA conference in Dallas this past October featured Dr. Gentempo and Dr. Fabrizio Mancini, another full spine chiropractor.
Are these organizations selling out? No, of course not. So, if you want to throw stones at me, you might want to move out of your glass house first.
The bottom line is that this is my directory and I’m going to run it how I want. End of story.
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Bravo, Brandon. You stick to your guns.
So, when a DC doing MUA contacts you about being on your site and states they are ‘subluxation-based’, will you let them be part of your directory? What if they inject people in NW, but are ‘subluxation-based’?
And the slippery slope begins…
Travis: Thanks!
John: No one doing MUA will be on my directory. I have a hard time believing someone doing MUA even knows what a VS is.
Perhaps an exageration, but ‘subluxation-based’ is a very useful term to allow a chiropractor to feel OK about adding PT and other modalities. Here in Illinois, ‘subluxation-based’ would include anyone stating they are adjusting subluxations and doing laser face lifts, female and male reproductive examinations, drawing blood, taking stool samples, and fitting a female with a diaphram. The majority of the profession will say subluxation is at the heart of what ‘we’ do.
I wish you well on whom you choose to include and those whom you choose to exclude.
Well handled Dr. Brandon. Will still be very hard to draw the line, but hey, I’m sure you expected no less-