by Amanda Lalor on May 8, 2013
How important is your health?
What aspect of your life isn’t affected by your health?
What do you want to be doing 30 years from now?
Will you be able to?
What did you eat for breakfast today?
What are you going to eat for dinner?
Would you drink the runoff water from the fields where your food is grown?
What water is your food drinking?
If all the fish in your aquarium started getting tumors would you put chemo drugs in the water, do surgery on the fish, or change the water?
Why is the rate of heart disease and the number of people on heart medication BOTH increasing?
What drug or surgery is going to fix you not eating, exercising, or thinking well?
If disease is genetic, why are our chronic disease rates skyrocketing while our genes haven’t changed?
If coughing is how you get the bad stuff out, why would you want to suppress it?
If higher temperatures slow the infection process, why would you want to chemically inhibit a fever?
What organ controls communication throughout your body?
How does your brain communicate to the rest of your body?
What structure protects your nervous system including the spinal cord?
How healthy is your spine?
by Amanda Lalor on April 22, 2013
By Dr. Cliff Fisher
The first chiropractic adjustment was given by Daniel David “D.D.” Palmer to Harvey Lillard on September 18th,1895 in Davenport, Iowa, on the 4th floor of the Ryan Building at the corner of Second and Brady Streets. The first chiropractic patient was an African American man named Harvey Lillard. Mr. Lillard was the owner/operator of the janitorial company that maintained the building where Palmer had his office. Lillard had told Palmer that he had a lump on his back and that he had lost most of his hearing. Dr. Palmer described the incident as follows, “Harvey Lillard could not hear the racket of a wagon on the street or the ticking of a watch. I made an inquiry as to the cause of his deafness and was informed that when he was exerting himself in a cramped, stooping position, he felt something “popped” in his back and he immediately lost his hearing.”
An examination showed a vertebra “racked” from its normal position. Palmer reasoned that if that vertebra was replaced, the man’s hearing should be restored. With this object in view, a half hour’s talk persuaded Mr. Lillard to allow me to replace it. He racked it into position by using the spinous process as a lever, and soon the man could hear as before.” Palmer later wrote, “There was nothing accidental about this, as it was accomplished with an object in view, and the result expected was obtained. There was nothing crude about this adjustment; it was specific.” Although the act of replacing vertebrae into their proper position had been practiced for thousands of years, Palmer was the first to explain the connection between the interference these misaligned bones caused to the nerve system and interference to the functioning of the body.
Wait… Does That Mean The First Chiropractic Patient Didn’t Have Back Pain?
That is correct. Harvey Lillard was deaf and his hearing was restored. At first D.D. thought he had discovered a cure for deafness, but, as he later wrote, “Shortly after this relief from deafness, I had a case of heart trouble which was not improving. I examined the spine and found a displaced vertebra pressing against the nerves which innervate the heart. I adjusted the vertebra and gave immediate relief. Then I began to reason 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?” Soon people were traveling far and wide to experience Dr. Palmer’s new discovery. D.D. had discovered a profession based on the premise that every part of the body works better with a proper nerve supply.
