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In this episode we talk about the history of Chiropractic, the principles it was founded upon and what is it really that Chiropractors do. We often thing of Chiropractors as neck & low pain doctors, which we are absolutely great at, but the spinal adjustment does much more than remove pain…
Show Notes:
- 1800s – Health scams
- No standardized medical education curriculum
- Louis Pasteur
- Antoine Bechamp
- 1847 AMA formed
- 1849 AMA organizes a board to debunk “quack” remedies
- 1901 JD Rockefeller started the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research
- 1906 A list of unacceptable medical schools were compiled
- 1910 Flexner Report published (funded by the Carnegie foundation) coordinated by Abraham Flexner
- 1895 (September 18) DD Palmer delivers the first Chiropractic adjustment to Harvey Lillard
- Subluxation is the cause of all disease. The subluxation is caused by 3 things: trauma, poisons & autosuggestion
- Universal Intelligence & Innate Intelligence
- 1963 AMA creates “Committee on Quackery”
- 1966 AMA calls Chiropractic “unscientific cult”
- 1976 Chester Wilk sues AMA, September 1987 “Wilks” case won against the AMA for Antitrust lawsuit
- What is it that Chiropractors actually do…
- Winsor Autopsies – curvatures of the spine adversely affects the sympathetic nervous system, abnormal spinal curvatures precede organic visceral diseases, postural distortions causing sympathetic dysfunction can be treated with fulcrum-assisted reversal (adjustment) of the postural distortion.
- Chiropractic & 1918 flu
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