In this episode we talk about the history of Chiropractic, the principles it was founded upon and what is it really that Chiropractors do. We often thing of Chiropractors as neck & low pain doctors, which we are absolutely great at, but the spinal adjustment does much more than remove pain…

Show Notes:

• 1800s – Health scams

• No standardized medical education curriculum

• Louis Pasteur

• Antoine Bechamp

• 1847 AMA formed

• 1849 AMA organizes a board to debunk “quack” remedies

• 1901 JD Rockefeller started the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research

• 1906 A list of unacceptable medical schools were compiled

• 1910 Flexner Report published (funded by the Carnegie foundation) coordinated by Abraham Flexner

• 1895 (September 18) DD Palmer delivers the first Chiropractic adjustment to Harvey Lillard

• Subluxation is the cause of all disease. The subluxation is caused by 3 things: trauma, poisons & autosuggestion

• Universal Intelligence & Innate Intelligence

• 1963 AMA creates “Committee on Quackery”

• 1966 AMA calls Chiropractic “unscientific cult”

• 1976 Chester Wilk sues AMA, September 1987 “Wilks” case won against the AMA for Antitrust lawsuit

• What is it that Chiropractors actually do…

• Winsor Autopsies – curvatures of the spine adversely affects the sympathetic nervous system, abnormal spinal curvatures precede organic visceral diseases, postural distortions causing sympathetic dysfunction can be treated with fulcrum-assisted reversal (adjustment) of the postural distortion.

• Chiropractic & 1918 flu