E-mail message this week .. 911 .. We Must Never Forget

 

I’d like to acknowledge next week’s September 11 anniversary. Everyone everywhere was touched when the twin towers fell and days of normalcy stopped. Security at home and abroad forced change and the economy worldwide suffered a heavy blow that we still recover from. Prior to covid and the lock-downs and fear of the unknown, I would have weekly patient workshops in my office. One wall was large enough that the projector used the entire space. I mention this because I added to my New Patient Health and Wellness Class, a few slides of my family and my appreciation of Life with the slide titled why I am a Chiropractor. The normal theme of my Health and Wellness patient education class is the preservation of life and the mechanics of maintaining health and wellness through chiropractic care. I focused on the lifecycle of a community and hone in on the reality of spinal integrity with reduced neurological stress, the subluxation. During the presentation it becomes clear that the responsibility to maintain this integrity rests with them and hopefully they feel obligated to tell others. Our responsibility is to tell the chiropractic story and provide the facility to further enhance their potential of life with our gifted hands.

 

I was compelled to start my class with a reminder of how precious life is and how easy we lose it. When all is said and done decisions made under stress decides our fate. Innately we adapt and survive but we do so more efficiently and safely when physiologically we are tuned and toned. Chiropractic plays a major role in allowing this process to proceed with ease. In every stage of life, from birth to our golden years, the clock of physical wear and tear ticks. Who amongst the entire healthcare industry has as their primary focus the spine and the nuances of neurological integrity? Who amongst the entire healthcare industry has as their primary focus the vertebral subluxation with the reality that this aberrant physiological behavior reduces life potential invisibly snuffing it out? How many of your patients are pain oriented only, with little to no knowledge of the message above?

 

We often take for granted the power of the adjustment and the strength of our words when we lose a patient to chiropractic ignorance. We take for granted our power of leadership when a patient doesn’t follow through with care or refuses to see the big picture. Doctor, is the responsibility for compliance and results the patient or ours. Both you may say, but we are the ones blessed with the knowledge of chiropractic leaving the onus of their ignorance on us. The key is a partnership in their health through knowledge and understanding and our mutual obligation to help others.

 

September 11 will always be our dramatic wake up call that life is so precious and can be lost or altered in a flash. It presents a dilemma for those standing in the way of life and the potential it brings.

 

We Play a Role In This Dance of Life, I Hope You Appreciate It