Chiropractic Success Stories a collection of stories showing

Chiropractic Success Stories a collection of stories showing what is possible when your body begins working its best with Chiropractic.

Chiropractic Success Stories • 63 year old man came in the student clinic when I was doing my internship, that day i got mad because the administration made me do 4 months more of practice instead of what was planned. He had an embolus 3 years ago. Since then, his left eye didn't stop crying, he couldn't talk smoothly, and he couldn’t walk past 5 steps. We analyzed him, took xrays etc. Gave him his first adjustment (I only adjusted C 2) and told him that was it for the day. He left and came back, one week later. Walking with his cane (he made the cane by the way), with no tears in his eyes they opened smoothly and said Hello! with no word trouble. I said to myself Wow! This 4 months more and life as a Chiropractor is gonna be amazing!!

Chiropractic Success Stories • A group of chiropractors in Barcelona take turns to go to a social and rehab center. It was my first time there and there were already some people waiting for their weekly adjustment. I introduced myself and shared the TIC. I adjusted a guy who this was his first time in his life. When he got off the table he didn't say a word and gave me a hug. After that, he went with the other people who were working in some poetry for a festival and didn't say a word. After I adjusted everyone else that day this guy came to me and showed me this drawing. He started crying and the woman in charge told me this was this guy's first drawing in 3 years. The people over there were really impressed and I had to adjust some more people that day after that! : -) That's the power of the adjustment!!

Chiropractic Success Stories • 3 year old boy had a severe allergic reaction to peanut butter @ 1 year old. Been "allergic" to peanut butter since. After getting adjusted for 2 weeks, he HAPPENED to get into peanut butter. Mom remained calm, but watchful. Nothing. She recently took him for allergy testing. Negative. Allergist says "That is not possible" (a scientist. . . no doubt). He sends for blood work. Completely normal. Yet the specialist still wants him to continue his asthma medication. Mom says, "I haven't given him THAT for over a year".

Chiropractic Success Stories • 23 year-old newlywed woman comes in after being told she needs a hysterectomy because of her endometriosis, so can never have children of her own. She and her husband begin care with the idea of being their best. 9 years later their 2 girls and 1 boy are all doing fabulously, the mom and dad are happy as clams and she has never had another problem with her reproductive system. I just have to keep telling her to stop telling everyone I got her pregnant!!!

Chiropractic Success Stories • 50 year old male has had lower back pain all spring from February until June. And after that for 3 weeks sciatica in the left leg. He went 6 times and last session yesterday all his cramps and radiating pain is gone. He had difficulties sleeping all night, but that got better for each session. I just love chiropractic and he even more : )

Chiropractic Success Stories • I had TOTALLY forgotten how I "convinced" my parents to get into care. I had been seeing a Chiropractor and got great help, which is why I was in Chiropractic College, in my first trimester. I called my mom almost everyday after CNS. Dr. Lewellen was the most amazing teacher - with my dad being a neuroendocrinologist, neurology runs in the blood in my family : ) Anyway, I had a 10 lb dog I adopted from the humane society that jumped off her doghouse and walked around like an inchworm. Her BM's literally fell out of her, and she was 3 hours away at my parents house while I was in school. My mom took her to the vet, they took films and said she would need to be put down or have surgery. My mom left, upset to tell me my options. As she was leaving, she noticed a big sign "Animal Chiropractor, here tuesdays" I asked her to bring my dog into the Chiropractor. 1 adjustment, and my dog was almost 100%. 2 adjustments and she was perfect. THAT convinced my parents to get into care - not their own daughter!

Chiropractic Success Stories • When I was in chiropractic college in the late 80's/early 90's, I worked at a health food store as a supplement buyer. One day while doing inventory, a young mom came in to try and find something to help with her 5 year old daughter's ear infections. I asked her if she had ever tried chiropractic. She said "I go to a chiropractor but never thought about taking her". So I gave a mini lay lecture and we said our goodbyes with knowing she would take her daughter to her chiropractor. Several weeks later, she approached me in the store and told me that she had been going to school for pre-law (prior to our encounter). However, once she saw the results of taking her daughter to get adjusted, she switched her undergrad program to be able to enter chiropractic college. A few words can mean so much.

Chiropractic Success Stories • My friend, Kerry, was over to help us with some house maintenance and reminded us how he happened to become a patient. He was 18 and helping to build our house, 24 years ago. Mike walked up behind him and touched his neck and said, "You have a chiropractic problem and we can fix it. It will help your heart. " He was 4 days away from scheduled open heart surgery. Every time he would lie down his heart would accelerate and pound dangerously fast, causing sweating and dizziness. Sure enough, after several adjustments he was fine. He canceled the surgery and is great today. No heart problems.

Chiropractic Success Stories • My dog had a litter of puppies. Each evening, we would call them in the garage and shut the door. One evening, a puppy decided to head back outside and since she was smaller than the safety lights on my garage door, the door came crashing down on her. I love animals and had my guns not been safely tucked away at my parent's house, I literally felt the most loving thing to do would be to put her out of her misery. Instead, we head over to the ER vet and $400 later we took her home. The following morning still alive but very pitiful. For several days, she seemed to stay in status epiliticus. One seizure followed by another. Sadly, I felt compelled to call our legendary vet to have her put to sleep. He agreed to meet me that evening at his clinic. I leave my wife crying in the driveway with the puppy and a small shoebox only to return home with an empty shoebox. The old vet had talked me into letting him take the puppy home for a week and during this time, the prescribed steroids had minimized the brain swelling and had helped stop the seizures. A week later, we had the puppy back home. She was no longer having seizures but needed all the love that we could give to help her to "thrive". She thrived and grew but was completely blind and would walk stiff legged and in clockwise circles everywhere she went. Finally we get to the chiropractic story. As clueless (at the time) as I was on adjusting dogs, I decided to adjust the dog. I looked at the X Rays taken at the original ER clinic and adjusted her neck. One adjustment later, the dog was no longer stiff legged, walked in circles and was following with her eyes everything going on around her. This adjustment held for two weeks when it was repeated and has held ever since.

Chiropractic Success Stories • An adorable 4 year old girl with optic neuritis was slowly going blind, we found her occiput & C 2 were subluxated. Muscle testing revealed that a virus was also attacking the optic nerve. After a few visits she could see just fine, no more optic neuritis! Later her father came in for an exam, he had an inguinal hernia and it was causing a whole lot of pain and he couldn't do his job as a physical therapist. First thought that popped into my ego was he needs surgery not an adjustment, then I quickly got over that thought and carried on with his exam and adjustment. After he left I looked at my meric chart and saw what left my mind entirely, L 1 subluxation cause hernias! Next visit he was doing great and can provide for his family pain free. A PT reminded this DC what chiropractic could do, IRONIC.

Chiropractic Success Stories • Just had a patient of my mother's message me thru facebook to let me know that her baby turned after three adjustments This is what she said. . . "SHE TURNED! I told the doc before the ultrasound that I was receiving chiro care to get her to turn and he was skeptical. He said he wants to deliver her at 37 weeks. . . likely c-section. I SAID. . here is what is going to happen. . . she is going to turn, I will go into labor, and deliver her vaginally. After the ultrasound, I walked past him and basically stuck my tongue out and said "ha ha. . . told you my plan would work!"

Chiropractic Success Stories • 65 + year old lady comes in to my office with muscle pains, dizziness. She had not been able to sleep on her left side for years because of her dizziness. She has been diagnosed with Mb Bechterew and Rheumatoid arthritis. After the first adjustment on her atlas she felt more relaxed. After the second adjustment she could sleep for awhile on her left side again. After the third and fourth adjustment she is almost pain free, moves a lot easier and she is very happy, discovering chiropractic which she had been afraid of because of all her pains.

Chiropractic Success Stories • 7 year old girl comes in with severe pain in both legs and daily headaches. She had been diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis at age 2½ (after several visits to specialists, hospitals etc). She was given NSAID's (which the parents gave her for 2½ years). Her stomach was affected big time and they went to another specialist who told them that she didn't have rheumatoid arthritis. Since then the parents have given her Tylenol every night and sometimes during the day as well. After the 1 st visit her headache is gone, her leg pain is less and after the second visit she is pain free and has been ever since. The mother said on the second visit; "how come they don't check all babies right when they are born? ". She really gets it: -)

Chiropractic Success Stories • I had the pleasure of helping a 38 year old single mom who had fallen from a horse twice when she was 10 years old. Since that time she'd had excruciating pain in her lower back more or less nonstop. Headaches as well. She refused to take medication because she could not properly care for her two children. She had suffered throughout her entire adulthood. What bothered her most of all was that she could no longer carry her three year old boy because of the pain. After just one adjustment she returned feeling 'different. . . lighter'. By the fourth adjustment she was headache and pain-free for the first time since age 10. "I feel like an entirely new person. I feel like I have been given my life back. " Thank you Chiropractic!

Chiropractic Success Stories • 1 year old baby with leukemia, aunt asked if chiropractic could do something for her? , went to the hospital and said if she's subluxated I'll adjust her. I did a light thrust adjustment of atlas and coccyx, one day later called the mother she said: I DONT KNOW WHAT YOU DID BUT HER SPLEEN STARTED TO WORK, she's now two and a half and keeps getting stronger.

Chiropractic Success Stories • My 1 st son who is now a 7 y. o. , had his 1 st seizure at 10 months. . . I was at work, left a packed clinic to get to my boy Zeeke. I got there before the ambulance (I like driving very fast cars), he had already stopped seizing at that point. . . The next morning he went into another seizure while in my hands. . . At that moment I had no time to think, innate was my guide. . . I palpated his neck found the laterality of his atlas and I adjusted it. Before the adjustment I was truly scared of losing my son, at that point-when fear of death is near you DO NOT TREAD LIGHT. . . Zeeke instantly stopped seizing at that point and started to cry, Then I knew he was going to be OK. He has never had another seizure, smart as a whip, strong like a bull, and hard to believe but even better looking than me. . . The point of this story is not the stopping of the seizures. It is the stopping of the dysfunction of his innate. . . A subluxation left in the nervous causes a lifetime of dysfunction and dis-ease. . . What would have happened if Zeeke did not get the care he needed. I don't know and don't care. (p. s. I cried as I typed the post. This was a profound, life changing moment of my life, one that I will carry to my grave)

Chiropractic Success Stories • 1 year old patient-no bowel movements for 4 days. 1 adjustment, 5 bowel movements that day. . . and 1 very happy mommy : )

Chiropractic Success Stories • A patient who is a veterinarian said this to me recently, "I know chiropractic works, because I've seen chiropractors adjust some of my animals with favorable results, and there is no placebo effect in animals. "

Chiropractic Success Stories • Mother brought her 14 month old son to office frustrated, tired and at her wits end. He had been on non-stop antibiotics for all but the first 3 months of his life, during which time he had a three week break. "Double Ear Infections" drip, coughing, gagging etc. with bi-weekly pediatrician visits to assess progress, hearing capacity, pain medication status, sleeping prescriptions etc. , not only for the baby, but the mother and father. Child never slept more than an hour or two. Next ped visit was to confirm advanced ear surgery and tube placement for three weeks out. First adjustment with a warning to the mother holding him that "this might be loud" and "he may cry". She said please, whatever it takes. Atlas. Bam! No crying and he slept for four hours immediately after. Bi weekly adjustments since, 3 months now. No antibiotics, no pain meds, no sleep issues, no fluid in ears, no redness - NO F'ing Surgery !!!

Chiropractic Success Stories • I love this one. . A 62 year old woman with paraplegia from T 8 down as a result of medical error during recovery after a successful AAA surgery came in for thoracic, cervical and wrist pain. She has use of her hip adductor muscles only. After 1 adjustment, no pain but more amazingly has some use of hip flexors now!!

Chiropractic Success Stories • 11 years ago this past July I was in the delivery room to help a mother stay adjusted during the birthing process. This was a small young lady and a large baby (almost 10 lbs), so the situation wasn't an easy one as the medical model of delivery was running the show, with the ob pulling the baby and two nurses on stools pressing down on the mother's abdomen while the mother pushed. The baby finally came out and was gray and blue and only grunting. The ob handed him off to the nurses, 3 at this point, who surrounded him and attempted to elicit a normal response from him. While the ob stitched up the mother, the baby was placed down on the appropriate table while one nurse stayed with him, another got on the phone to the neonatal intensive care unit and the third ran out to meet the unit to get them to the baby immediately. While this panic was ensuing, I walked over to the baby, with the baby's grandmother and one nurse watching me. I looked at the nurse, who nodded at me, and palpated his little neck. Innate guided me immediately to atlas, which was subluxated on the right, so with my index finger I gently tapped while Innate used that force to remove the subluxation. Immediately, with the nurse and grandmother watching, the baby began to turn pink and cry normally. NICU was notified that things stabilized, the grandmother hugged me with tears in her eyes, and the nurse who witnessed this came up to me and whispered that if anyone asks what I did, I would have to say I massaged him, otherwise there would be lots of trouble, and she didn't want anything to happen to me. As nobody ever asked me that day what occurred, it wasn't an issue, but I've shared this story with hundreds of people since then and I'm still waiting for the trouble to come my way. : -)

Chiropractic Success Stories • A patient got driven into my office yesterday, because she couldn't drive herself. She had dry heaves, ice pack on her neck, couldn't open her eyes - her migraine was so bad. I asked her the 10 point scale, and she said her pain was a 12. Its my first week in practice - for the first time I doubted myself. Fear took over for me, but I knew she needed innate to get working. I adjusted her, she seemed a little bit better, and went home. An hour later, she texted me and said "Thank you for giving me my day back" I’m definitely humbled by the power of the body!

Chiropractic Success Stories • A young woman came in the day after a really bad car accident. She had gone to the ER and after many hours of waiting was given some pretty strong pain killers, muscle relaxers and some other concoction. We did our analysis and adjusted, she got off the table and yelled "WOW that was better than any drug they gave me at the hospital, I feel amazing!!" The power was simply turned on!!!

Chiropractic Success Stories • 1 year anniversary today of a 38 y/o practice member entering my office. Had passed out a few weeks before in the bathroom, wife found him on the floor, severe vertigo and other upper cervical subluxation manifestations. I gave him three things that day. Hope. . . where no one else had. Awareness. . of where health really comes from. Adjustment. . . at the right place and the right time to restore the integrity of the mental impulse. Today he comes in and comes to tears as he talks about his journey back to health. But he doesn't stop there. He talks about the new found peace in his life. He talks about the fact that people have no FREE WILL when they are subluxated. The body has no free will and the person has no free will. A severely subluxated individual is truly disconnected. What could possibly be bigger than the Chiropractic objective of restoring life to the body

Chiropractic Success Stories • A 20 yr old massage therapist with a T 1 -L 3 fusion at the age of 11 yrs old for scoliosis came in 2 months ago with severe pain, numbness, difficulty sleeping, lack of energy, and severe PMS. After 2 months of care she is sleeping, went from 8/10 pain scale to 2/10, less PMS symptoms, has better movement and flexibility, increased immune function, and increased energy to the point that others are noticing a significant difference.

Chiropractic Success Stories • Today a woman came in for her 3 rd adjustment ever and asked, "Is feeling, great, sleeping well and sinus problems going away in 3 days instead of three weeks supposed to happen? ' LOL I love what I do and I am AMAZED, still, after 25 years, at what Innate does.

Chiropractic Success Stories • A 63 year old woman came in with a severe cervical pain, blurry eyesight, stinging sensation in the eyes, almost no ROM in her neck, vertigo, a constant headache that wouldn’t go away and most of all her expression was sad an shallow it was almost as if there was no life in her. Pain killers didn’t have any effect on her and she had tried a whole pharmacy of them. Any slight neck rotation, flexion or extension would aggravate most of the symptoms so I decided to adjust with an activator. For the second and third visit she came in just the same but for the fourth visit I didn’t see her in the waiting room so I called out her name and this full of life woman came towards me with a huge smile on her face. Almost all of her symptoms had gone away but the real miracle is she felt and looked alive again. Today she says she became at least 30 years younger

Chiropractic Success Stories • A 56 year old female comes in for neck pain. Comes back for her 2 nd adjustment and asks"by the way, does Chiroprac. TIC help with your hearing"? "Why"? I asked. "Because after leaving here yesterday, I stopped at the light up the road and could hear people's footsteps on the sidewalk!, I haven't heard that in years!" Needless to say, I had goose bumps as I explained how Harvey had the exact same story in 1895.

Chiropractic Success Stories • A little 8 year old girl came into the office yesterday after being at her ear doctor. He said her hearing was 100%. First time ever! She was born with her ears closed, no holes so they had to do reconstructive surgery and she had always had problems with her ears. Chiropractic Rocks

Chiropractic Success Stories • A practice member originally came in for acute torticollis. The neck pain was 60% better after the 1 st visit. By her 10 th visit she was shining brighter. She said she quit taking her anti-depressant medications for the last 3 weeks and has felt better ever. She had been on them for 10 years. I didn't know!

Chiropractic Success Stories • 36 year old commercial real estate broker with 20 year history of chronic/acute low back pain and seemingly unrelated hemorrhoids. Very skeptical of chiropractic. Long story short, low back pain gone. Hemorrhoids gone. Ten years later graduates from chiropractic school. Eleven years later, is still a chiroprac. TIC evangelist.

Chiropractic Success Stories • 12 yr. old came in today with acute bronchial asthma attack today after being subjected to a rude smoker in a car. She received an adjustment while wheezing and coughing and within 20 minutes of rest her breathing function is normalizing with no more wheezing.

Chiropractic Success Stories • 50 (ish) yr. old male patient had a crossed eye his whole life. He came in for the common reason- back pain. He was simply amazed when his eye finally went to it's proper position. • The other I witnessed was a patient's dog. Her dog was adopted, about 2 years old, she had him for a year. This dog never jumped, ran around, or played- just sort of limped. The vet said his leg would have to be amputated. The patient didn't really have the money for this surgery. She always brought him to the office with her, and one day, Doug said that he adjusted his Mom's pets. She asked him if he would try on her dog. I was there witnessing this. He adjusted the dog, and immediately after, the dog started to happily run around the office, and jumped up and licked everyone. The patient was sobbing, I had tears, and Doug was just beaming and nodding his head. It was an incredible moment.

Chiropractic Success Stories • Last practice member of the day comes in on Friday. . . under care for 9 months, previously severe migraines and constantly sick, 2 miscarriages. Now 16 weeks pregnant, has not had a cold or flu in 9 mos. Chiropractic is about the restoration of LIFE and the intelligence inside that orchestrates that life over and through the nervous system.

Chiropractic Success Stories • A practice member with diabetes came in today and announced he has been able to decrease his insulin use and expects soon to stop using it all together. Another member with diabetic neuropathy said "her feet hurt less, she can walk more, has more sensation in her feet, and she no longer gets a burning or shock sensation if someone touches them. "

Chiropractic Success Stories • One new patient came in because her manicurist told her that her clients with the strongest and healthiest nails all saw chiropractors regularly.

Chiropractic Success Stories • I had a 17 yr old boy who presented with constant migraines for 4 yrs following a series head injuries from sports. Imagine having a migraine everyday with no let up. He was from a heavy sports family and could no longer play any sports. His grades were sub par, he couldn't sleep at night, his teachers thought he was lazy because he'd fall asleep in class, he missed all sorts of school, and he'd never been on a date. After 2 weeks treatment he was migraine free. 2 months later his mother came to see me in tears to tell me he made the honor roll. A couple weeks after that, he came to see me for a check up with a new girlfriend in tow. He has since graduated, and is attending college for a music and sound editing degree. And he has another girlfriend.

Chiropractic Success Stories • a 63 year old female and her husband came in. She was complaining about her knees. First visit 06/29/11. . . first outdoor exercise (walk) 07/10/11 without pain. Never adjusted the knees. . . innate did.

Chiropractic Success Stories • Taking care of two brothers age 4 and 6. Both have ADD. . . ADHD. . . Mild Autistic symptoms. . Parents have been told many DX's. Told the parents that if we can clear out nerve interference they will do better. After two adjustments the parents came to me and said " I don’t know what you did but these boys NEVER slept. Always a problem putting down for bed and up at 600 a. m. Now they sleep like logs. " Here we go people. . the body is starting to heal!!! I expect great things for these boys

Chiropractic Success Stories • 11 year old little girl came into the office with migraine headaches since she was 5. She's been going to EVERY profession under the sun with no relief. . . Her aunt suggested she try "the new chiropractors" in town (us). Her Insight EMG & Thermal scans were both in the "very challanged" range. After one diversified adjustment, major improvement. Next up toggle adjustment, no more headaches & has been migraine free for 9 -10 months now!

Chiropractic Success Stories • We have several mother/daughters begin care who initially were at each other's throats and very antagonistic toward each other. As their care progressed, we have noticed (and more importantly, they have noticed) that they get along better. A pouting 20 year old and a snarky mom have become friendlier and will hug and kiss and say "Love you, honey" after several weeks of care. Its so exciting to see!

Chiropractic Success Stories • Cathryn was 3 and 1/2 when her mother brought her to see me. She had fallen off her changing table at 10 months of age. She had been having at least 1 Grand Mal seizure every day and her vision was so bad that even with the thickest glasses I have ever seen she was almost completely blind. Being a paramedic her mom had taken her to all the to MDs in the area with no results. Adjusted her atlas on her first visit and she hasn't had a seizure since. Her vision is 20/20, doing great in school, is a pretty amazing soccer player, and an awesome teenager that will be driving next year. Holy smokes when did all those years fly by?

Chiropractic Success Stories • 6 day old Emma had not had a bowel movement in 3 days. A gentle thumb pressure on her sacrum cause an "adult" audible. Within 5 minutes of leaving the office, mom called from her cell phone proclaiming "Emma just had the biggest blowout! Thanks!"

Chiropractic Success Stories • Long time ago, I took care of a "failure to thrive" baby. Three weeks old, didn't poop in 8 days, couldn't sleep, didn’t have the power to suck. Adjusted her atlas. Instantly she fell asleep in my arms. Some minutes later, she stirred. I handed her over to mom, and she started to suck like a vacuum. Then. . . the sound and smell of success!

Chiropractic Success Stories • 7 year old comes into my adjusting room by himself and says "Mom wants me to be checked. She thinks I need an adjustment because I'm cranky. "

Chiropractic Success Stories • 3 year old boy had a severe allergic reaction to peanut butter @ 1 year old. Been "allergic" to peanut butter since. After getting adjusted for 2 weeks, he HAPPENED to get into peanut butter. Mom remained calm, but watchful. Nothing. She recently took him for allergy testing. Negative. Allergist says "That not possible" (a scientist. . . no doubt). He sends for blood work. Completely normal. Yet the specialist still wants him to continue hi asthma medication. Mom says, "I haven't given him THAT for over a year". Specialist is pissed. Thinks the blood test and the allergy tests were messed up by the lab. He is CONVINCED this little expression of Innate has problems. We know who has the problems. .