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Beginning
June
6,
2006
our Tuesday - Thursday hours will be changing to 11:30 AM to 3:30 PM
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The History of Chiropractic:
| Dr. Daniel David Palmer was a practicing magnetic healer
in the 1890s who practiced in Davenport, Iowa. There was a
janitor who worked in the building where Dr. Palmer practiced
named Harvey Lillard. Harvey had been deaf for 17 years and
was so deaf that he could not hear the wagons bump along the
brick paved streets. Dr. Palmer asked Harvey how he had lost
his hearing. Harvey replied that once while bent over, in a
stooped position, he heard something "pop" in his spine and
immediately lost his hearing. Dr. Palmer was a very reasoning
man and asked if he could examine Harvey’s spine to see if he
could determine what had caused the deafness. |
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Harvey agreed, and Dr. Palmer palpated
Harvey’s spine. He found a noticeably large bump on Harvey’s
spine at the 2nd cervical level. He determined that perhaps
this large bump on Harvey’s spine had caused Harvey’s deafness
and decided to try to reduce that bump by making a thrust upon
it. Dr. Palmer placed Harvey down on his stomach and gave the
bump a hard shove. After a series of three shoves the bump was
reduced - Harvey’s hearing returned!
Dr. Palmer
reasoned that if Harvey Lillard’s hearing was restored by
reducing the bump in his spine, that reduction of the bumps in
other people’s spines might restore their hearing. So he
started to advertising that he could restore hearing by
reducing bumps on people’s spines. He started watching and
plotting where spinal nerves went, and what organs and tissue
cells they innervated. He developed his own anatomical charts,
made notes of what was happening to different individual‘s
problems and found that people where healing from conditions
other than deafness. Dr. Palmer was curing heart conditions,
asthma, kidney problems, and even cancer to name a few. Dr.
Palmer began looking to the spinal ailmenta as the cause of
diseases.
Dr. Palmer knew that he had stumbled on a
method of encouraging the body to heal itself, but he did not
want to share it with the world, rather he wanted to keep it
as a family secret. His son, Bartlett Joshua Palmer (B.J.),
decided to let the world know about the discovery his father
had made and tried to keep secret. B.J. convinced his father
to start a school teach chiropractic. The Palmer Infirmary and
Chiropractic School opened in 1897, but since he had no
students, the stated opening of the school was in 1898 (when
he had two students). B.J. was one of four students in the
class of 1902. After graduation, B.J. practiced in several
cities. B.J. later helped run the infirmary and school, and
eventually bought out his father’s interests.
B.J.
worked at developing his school in Davenport, Iowa. This
proved to be an arduous task as B.J. dealt with arrests and
legal battles that came from trying to develop something new.
He went through financial difficulties and then made a lot of
money through various enterprises that he was involved in. He
started a new business in the fledging radio industry. In
fact, one of the largest radio stations in the Midwest carry
the call letters "WOC," meaning the "Wonders of Chiropractic."
The most famous of the people to ever work for him was Ronald
Reagan, the man who later became President of the United
States.
Among other things that B.J. did was to
develop a research clinic, a radio station, a sanitarium for
the mentally ill, a television station, analytical instruments
for the new chiropractic profession and adjusting tables. He
wrote many books, and disliked being interrupted by having to
put a new sheet of paper into his typewriter in the middle of
a thought. He went to a typewriter company and told them that
he wanted them to build him an electric typewriter (the first)
that would hold a roll of paper. B.J. took a new invention,
the x-ray, and developed the techniques for taking certain
views that would help the chiropractor see the vertebrae that
were out of position. The first full spine x-rays were taken
by Dr. B.J. Palmer, not the medics.
"From the Palmer
College Fountain Head, flows the pure water of chiropractic
thinking." There is a small booklet of the sayings that B.J.
had painted all over the walls of the school. For example,
"Enter to learn - Leave to serve," "Prescriptions are written
in Latin, but the bills come in plain English."
B.J.’s
private clinic was a marvel. In order to work in the clinic, a
student had to first complete all of the college clinic
requirements and get accepted into Dr. Palmer’s private
clinic. Very seriously sick patients were seen at this clinic.
Patients were referred in by other chiropractors and would
also come in when medical intervention had proven
unsatisfactory. Patients were sent in from all over the world,
those who couldn’t walk, who couldn’t function in any way.
B.J. was getting a fantastic percentage of patients
well who were labeled as the "incurables." He had employed
medical doctors to work in his clinic, who would run their
tests to verify the hometown doctor’s diagnosis. He would run
his own chiropractic tests, give the patient chiropractic
adjustments when necessary, then the medical doctors would run
their tests over to verify the results that Dr. Palmer was
obtaining through Chiropractic. B.J. was a tireless worker and
a mental giant; a man ahead of his time.
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ICA Celebrates Chiropractic Founder’s Day 2006
The chiropractic profession is celebrating its 111th year of service
to the public today. A new and innovative approach to health and
healing, the practice of chiropractic focuses on the relationship
between the structures of the human body, primarily the spine, and
function as coordinated by the nervous system, and how that
relationship affects the preservation and restoration of health.
Chiropractic, a drugless and non-surgical science and practice, is
also based on the understanding that the human body is a
self-healing, self-regulating organism. Chiropractic recognizes that
the capacity exists to enhance the healing process by removing
barriers to the body’s innate abilities of self-comprehension and
repair.
Through manual adjustments of the segments of the spine to remove
nerve interference, doctors of chiropractic seek to restore normal
bodily functions to allow the body to heal itself. What in 1895 was
considered an attack on the orthodox medical industry of the era is
now a concept so credible that widely recognized names like Drs.
Andrew Weil and Deepak Chopra base the core premise of their
best-selling books and tapes on this healing model.
Chiropractic’s famous first adjustment is recognized each year on
Founder’s Day, commemorating September 18th, 1895, when Dr. Daniel
David Palmer administered his initial specific chiropractic
adjustment on Harvey Lillard in Davenport, Iowa. Dr. D.D. Palmer
delivered the first chiropractic adjustment with the specific intent
of realigning a malpositioned vertebra, restoring its normal
position, in an attempt to restore a hearing defect. That attempt,
as the world now knows, was successful.
From an innovative scientific concept, the science and practice of
chiropractic rapidly gained official status through the legislatures
of the various states under the authorities reserved to the states
in the U.S. Constitution to “regulate the professions and the
trades.” The legal development of chiropractic began shortly after
the initial articulation of chiropractic principles and, by the
1920s, chiropractic was well on the way to formal legal recognition
and regulation through licensure in numerous states.
The first law passed by a state legislature authorizing and
regulating the practice of chiropractic as a separate and distinct
health care profession was in Kansas on March 20, 1913. This action
was followed in quick succession by the legislature of North Dakota
in that same year, and by Arkansas, Oregon, Nebraska and Colorado,
by 1915. This represented the beginning of a recognition process
that was completed in 1974 when Louisiana finally adopted a
chiropractic licensure law. This steady official embrace of
chiropractic is one of the most profound and historic health care
success stories of modern times.
Chiropractic would not have been successful in attaining official
licensed professional status if it were not for the tremendous
support it received from the public. Throughout its history, the
chiropractic profession has provided clinically effective,
cost-effective and safe care to millions of patients worldwide, and
earned the highest patient satisfaction levels of any doctor-level
health care science. Every day in the United States alone, more than
one million consumers of all ages, from newborn infants to the most
senior of our citizens seek the care of a doctor of chiropractic.
Chiropractic, which was once considered experimental, unorthodox or
“alternative” health care, has now become a vital part of the main
stream of health care. “Doctors of chiropractic worldwide have every
reason to be proud of our profession and the unique contributions
chiropractic science continues to make to the lives of millions,”
said ICA President Dr. John Maltby.
The International Chiropractors Association (ICA) is also
celebrating its 80th Anniversary in 2006. Founded in 1926 in
Davenport, Iowa by Dr. B J Palmer who served as ICA president utill
his death in 1961, ICA is the world's oldest continuously
functioning international chiropractic professional organization.
Dedicated to the growth and development of the chiropractic
profession based on its fundamental principles and philosophy, ICA
has worked worldwide to build the chiropractic profession, always
remaining true to the principles and philosophy on which it was
founded, and fighting to preserve its unique identity as a separate,
distinct and drugless health care profession.
ICA's service and leadership in the profession is a matter of record
as noted by well-known chiropractic historian, Russell Gibbons who
wrote in 1996:
"The story of ICA's maintenance of principle and scope of practice,
its growing and systemic efforts through the legislative process and
its influence upon opinion makers is a remarkable account. For with
minimum resources, ICA created an effective lobby for chiropractic
and pioneered the concept of public relations, which eventually was
to change the perception of millions of Americans toward
chiropractic as a legitimate and respectable health care
alternative.”
ICA, now with members in all fifty of the United States, all
Provinces of Canada and 41 other nations, remains committed to the
global expansion of the science and practice of chiropractic, and to
making the unique healing powers of chiropractic accessible to every
citizen of the world. For more information visit the ICA website at
www.chiropractic.org or call 800-423-4690 or 703-528-5000. |
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