How do you put a dollar value on good crack? Have you ever received a diagnosis on your car that seemed really bad, only to find out that the fix is a .35 cent rubber ring? As a chiropractor with a great deal of respect for the profession, our education and the lengths we go to to help people, I also don’t get caught up on semantics.
Crack, pop, snap-crackle-pop, rack & crack, I don’t really care what you call what I do, as long as you get well and get well soon. Incidentally, “adjustment” is the proper term for a chiropractic manipulation. I don’t really care if you ask how many chiropractors it takes to change a light bulb and then answer your question with “one, but it will take 20 visits”. All the jokes, the misnomers and the puns used for describing the adjustments that our profession has fought so hard to change, don’t upset me if you understand what we really do.
What’s the value of good crack? We recently had a mother bring her 20 month old child into the office. The toddler has had ear infections for 16 of her 20 months on earth. Antibiotics have been a constant for that time and tubes were inserted into her ears prior to coming to the office. 16 straight months of ear infections….imagine that. Mom was crying when I first met her. I work with a lot of children ranging in age from days old to teenagers. The parents of this girl had tried everything and nothing worked. She had her first adjustment just after Christmas and has been in several times since. She hasn’t had an ear infection since. What’s the value of a great adjustment? For the parents of this child and indeed, the little one herself, the chiropractic adjustment is priceless.
Predictable miracles happen every day in chiropractic offices around the world. Our office accepts all attitudes and word substitutions, positive attitudes are preferred, funny chiropractor jokes accepted, respect for results a must.