From: Dr. Margolies.. 5-28-21
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E-mail message this week .. Let’s Get Serious

There are a number of reasons to be a member of both your state and national chiropractic associations such as accountability and lobbying. They should be watching out for their members as well as the profession as a whole. Most important is keeping a watchful eye and defining ear the state legislature and the insurance companies.

Years ago, a major insurance company decided not to pay for any pediatric or headache related services, I said Wow!! Am I dreaming or has some lame chiropractor providing opinions for the insurance provider given the most ridiculous advice possible. Now come on, how many of you reading this e-mail throughout the entire globe have adjusted and helped greatly people with all sorts of headaches? Many of these folks have been through the wringer with medical pills, potions and salves attempting to rid or manage their migraines or general all purpose stress, sinus headaches or whatever you call it. If I could see a show of hands, I bet it would be most of you raising them right now. In fact, very few of us have failed, even with the crudest of technical prowess, to help many with headaches. So how can an insurance provider decide after so many years of insurance coverage and the existence of our great profession, that either chiropractic care was useless or dangerous for their insured with cervicogenic headaches either trapping the greater or inferior occipital nerve or aggravating the cervical and sub occipital soft tissue bed after a violent whiplash, sports injury, fall or general physical stress resulting into neurological stress?  You amongst us doing specific cervical work, analyzing biomechanically the subluxation complex how will you respond? Regardless if you are in or out of network or insurance coverage does not apply to your office, what have you to say?

As far as children, I don’t have to go far beyond my three. They were delivered via my hands in my home and never visited a pediatrician, taken medication of any type while in my charge and that was into their twenties. They rarely were sick, their friends not lucky enough to be adjusted, were sick often. My kids felt jilted in school when medicine time came and bottle after bottle was pulled from student cubbies to be administered to their classmates. “Daddy, why can’t I have something,” I heard more than once from either of my three. It didn’t take long for me to “straighten” them out with a loving understanding of the healing of the body and how they have been lucky to been cared for chiropractically from birth. How lucky they were and how unfortunate it will be for any of our professional charges if you are either intimidated to back off from checking children or neglect the cervical spine to rid the plague of chronic headaches from those that pass our threshold. Luckily this is not an issue today but we must always be vigilant.

Yes, we can treat and not mention the proper diagnosis code but it just takes us down a little further into the abyss of denial. The answer is to individually and collectively via our district and state associations, not to mention our schools and national groups, advance specific chiropractic oriented research sent to local and national media. Sharing amongst ourselves within our professional periodicals is the same as preaching to the choir, but this also is not enough. State associations and schools must assign member doctors with writer’s ability to provide reports to the media highlighting the benefits and wonders of chiropractic. Assign research students in every campus to use their time highlighting common subjective complaints and tagging it with objective findings and chiropractic adjustments as a safe alternative to lifetime medication and impaired personal performance.

So Let's Get Serious .. We Need to Kick Some Butt

Now, I feel better

Have A Great Day

Joel E. Margolies, DC

4910 Lavista Road

Tucker (metro Atlanta), Georgia 30084

770-491-3639

www.familychirocenter.net

Life College graduate 1978, use the Activator, Impulse, SOT, Diversified, Cox Lumbar Distraction, Ulan NRT, Rapid Release, Standard Process Nutrition, Cold Laser Therapy with Multi Radiance