Chiropractic Science (and Miracles) and the guff in between…

I had a new patient who came recently with MRIs of the Neck and Low Back showing disc herniations with spinal cord compression. Her symptoms were to be expected, neck and low back pain with numbness radiating down the arms and legs. I prescribed for her 6 weeks of care 3Xs a week of Chiropractic, … Continue reading Chiropractic Science (and Miracles) and the guff in between… →

What’s in a name…

In 2001, 1 year into Chiropractic College, we were told that our school name, the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic (established 1911) was going through a rebranding as we were adding an Acupuncture and Oriental (Are we even allowed to say Oriental anymore?) medicine program. Not content with merely sending out an email telling us … Continue reading What’s in a name… →

Empathy in the age of COVID…

A Gentle reminder on empathy in the age of COVID from the worlds foremost Asshole: One of the things that I did not like the past year were people who “minimized” COVID, through personal experience or anecdotal statistics. Saying that you had it and it was “just a cold” or that, in general, it had … Continue reading Empathy in the age of COVID… →

Good Friday- 2020

You might not realize it but today is Good Friday. It kind of snuck up on you didn’t it this year. I barely noticed myself, perhaps not shocking even for the worlds foremost bad Catholic quarantined in a County with State sanctioned Agnosticism . This was Holy Week, which in Christian belief started with Jesus … Continue reading Good Friday- 2020 →

🇮🇪☘️St. Patricks Day☘️🇮🇪

St. Patrick was born and raised in Roman Occupied Britain (Wait What?!?) and was eventually captured by savage Irish Pirates before being smuggled into The Potato laden Green Rock and used as slave labor. It was during his enslavement in Ireland that he turned from his wayward ways as a rebellious youth towards the lord. … Continue reading 🇮🇪☘️St. Patricks Day☘️🇮🇪 →

Valentines Day ❤️

In Roman antiquity from February 13 to 15, the Descendants Of Romulus and Remus celebrated the feast of Lupercalia. The men sacrificed a goat and a dog, then whipped women with the hides of the animals they had just slain, which they believed would make them fertile. The brutal orgy included a matchmaking lottery, in … Continue reading Valentines Day ❤️ →

Just Show up…

Back when I was a little boy and my parents would argue I remember sitting in my room and covering my ears, sometimes lying facedown in bed with a pillow covering my ears.I didn’t like the sound and fury much back then. Hell, even the vacuum cleaner was too much in those wee days , … Continue reading Just Show up… →

Happy Birthday, Chiropractic!

124 years ago, today, Daniel David (DD) Palmer put the town of Davenport Iowa on the map when he performed a manual adjustment to the spine of a janitor, Harvey Lillard. Lillard, deafened seventeen years earlier after hearing a “pop in his back”, allowed Palmer to derive that if you “pop it back”, hearing could be … Continue reading Happy Birthday, Chiropractic! →

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3 out of 5 Punctuality? You can't rush Genius, I suppose 😉

Missed Diagnosis of the Past…

Let’s take a trip back to an innocent time when I was being bored to death in pathology class at the Los Angeles College of Chiropractic. The anatomy and physiology department was stocked with Egyptian medical doctors from the University of Alexandria, who had all escaped religious persecution to come to America (They were Christian). I’m imagining … Continue reading Missed Diagnosis of the Past… →