July 2008

Rise and shine

by Dr. Dave Scheiner

You're probably familiar with such phrases as "clean and green," and "sunny side up." How do certain sayings and phrases fit into your chiropractic office and uplift your patients?

Before answering that question, let's consider what chiropractic is and what it affords the people who visit you at your office.

Chiropractic is the application of a methodology called an adjustment, which removes interferences within a person's nervous system in order to allow the individual to experience enhanced performance at every level of existence.

When people enter your office, they come in subluxated, with diminished performance in all areas of life. Their minds are so busy and cluttered, they're unable to "think straight." Their precious brains are firing signals to various areas of the body that are either too fast, or too slow, or not being received at all.

I have heard of (and come across) chiropractors who never adjust patients! Should you be among those who still do, examine the intention behind your adjustments. Are you attempting to get patients out of pain? Are you luring them into a false package of hope claiming to be a diagnostic magician who will cure them of their ailments? If so, your lifetime filled with frustration and discontent will continue, as will theirs.

My last article published in The Chiropractic Journal touched on the birth of chiropractic "as a pill." Our duties as chiropractors are much more than disguising medicine with a chiropractic mask. Chiropractic has traveled so far down the dark path of disease, diagnosis and treatment that some principled revolutionaries within the profession feel there would be no light to find our way back even if collectively we did a 180-degree turn.

I say there's no need to turn around and head back. The brain and body know what to do when there's no interference within. So, right from where you stand, no matter how far down the medical model road you've traveled, rise up and start adjusting your people because you know they're better off without the interference than with it -- and for that reason alone. Let them know the adjustment is enhancing their internal performance on all levels and that everything they and their family enjoy in life will improve.

This never started out to have anything to do with pain treatment and it still doesn't. Perhaps, the profession itself is experiencing the exact thing its practitioners are supposed to be removing -- the subluxation. It's possible the time has come for those within chiropractic who enjoy practicing everything except that, start calling themselves something else or even become indoctrinated into medicine the same way the osteopaths were early in the 19th century.

Many reading this will wonder who I am to be making such accusations and saying such things. Well, I say to you, I'm a chiropractor who is committed to removing interference for the sake of removing interference. I'm a visionary who is a lover of truth and all that's just in our world. I declare it's time to take chiropractic out of the pain and treatment era and into the chiropractic era!

For you, it may be as simple as saying "rise and shine" the next time you're through with an adjustment and helping someone off the adjusting bench.

(Dave Scheiner, DC, attended Life University and become a chiropractor in 1996. He and his wife Laura own Maximum Wellness in Atlanta, where they adjust spines together. Dr. Scheiner enjoys traveling the world, meditation, writing, spending time with his three daughters, and helping the world become a more loving and inspiring place with more loving and inspired people. He may be contacted by e-mail at scribedoc@aol.com)