Some might think that I am too hard on the medical guys. I am way harder on my own colleagues!
Case in point? A woman just joined the practice. She had been in a high speed rear-end collision 25 years ago. The complication was that, when she was hit, she was checking her make-up in the rearview mirror. That means that her head and neck were markedly tilted to the left and rotated to the right, with her who back tilted to the right. The biomechanical consequences of being hit at about 35 mph? Thousands of pounds of force were transmitted to her spine in milliseconds, causing different sections of her spine to forcibly flex, then extend, then (because she was forced into the car in front of her, flexed and extended again, all the while having different sections of the spine corkscrew down and up.
So now she's got some really serious, ugly subluxation. Had she been to chiropractors during those 25 years. Yes, several. Did they take X-rays? No, except for one who was "playing doctor," taking the insurance and, therefore, following all of the medically oriented, non-chiropractic rules. He sent her to an even worse excuse-for-a-chiropractor, a "chiropractic radiologist." Following the insurance rules, he took films of only the "area of complaint," the lumbar spine, the low back. Turned out, unbeknownst to these moron chiropractors, she had not one, not two, not three but FOUR COMPRESSION FRACTURES in her spine. The worst one was just above the "area of complaint," and, therefore, not seen, until she came to me.
The morale of this story? When you hear a friend, family member, neighbor or co-worker saying, "I tried Chiropractic, but it didn't work," you tell them that, in extreme likelihood, they may have gone to someone with a "D.C." after their name, but whatever they were doing did not even approach the standards of real chiropractic.
Get them here to get checked for Vertebral Subluxation Complex (VSC). If they live too far away, I will be happy to assist them in finding a real chiropractor where they live. If you don't tell them, who will?
The Innate in me blesses the Innate in you
Dr Harte
Beacon for the Subluxated
