History Of Chiropractic - Antiquities

With its roots deep in history, the practice of maintaining a healthy body, keeping the spine correctly aligned to the days of yore.

Professional practice of chiropractic as a separate form of health care, dating back to 1895. Many of the earliest healers understood the relationship between health and the condition of the spine. Hippocrates advised: "Get knowledge of the spine, because this is a prerequisite for many diseases."

A contemporary of Hippocrates, Herodotus, achieved fame by using exercise therapy to cure diseases. If the patient was too weak to exercise, Herodotus would be to adjust the patient's spine. Aristotle was critical of Herodotus' tonic-free approach because "he made old men, young and thus prolonged their lives too."

It was not until Daniel David (DD) Palmer discovered the specific spinal adjustments, chiropractic care is officially born. "I'm not the first person to replace vertebral subluxation, but I claim to be the first person to replace displaced vertebrae by using the spinous and transverse processes as levers ... and to develop the philosophy of science and chiropractic adjustments. "

DD Palmer, discoverer of chiropractic

Born in Ontario, Canada, DD Palmer moved to America when he was 20. He spent years after the Civil War teaching school, raising bees and selling sweet raspberries in the cities of Iowa and Illinois River.

In 1885, JJ has learned the work of pitcher Paul, a magnetic healer who was having some success in Ottumwa. For more information, DD moved his family to Burlington, near Ottumwa. He learned the techniques of magnetic healing, a common treatment at the time. Two years later he moved to Davenport and opened the Palmer healing and nursing.

18. September 1895, DD Palmer's working late in his office when the janitor, Harvey Lillard, began working in the vicinity. Once outside the noisy fire engine passed, he was surprised to see that Lillard did not react at all, Palmer approached the man to strike up a conversation. He soon realized Lillard was deaf.

Patiently, Palmer managed to communicate with man, and knew he had normal hearing for most of his life. However, a day that was folded into a position close to deal, and felt something "pop" on the back. When he arose, he could not hear. Palmer concluded that the two events - the jump back and deafness - had to be connected.

As JJ put his hand gently on the back Lillard, became one of the vertebrae was not in its normal position. "I thought that if that vertebra was replaced, the hearing rights must be restored," he wrote in his notes afterwards. "With this aim in view, a half-hour talk persuaded Mr. Lillard to allow me to replace it. Tapping into place with the spinous process as a lever, and soon the man could hear as before."

In the coming months, other patients came to Palmer with every imaginable problem, including flu, sciatica, headaches, stomach pain, epilepsy and heart problems.

DD Palmer found each of these conditions have responded well to adjustments, which he called "hand treatments." It was late, he coined the term chiropractic - from the Greek words, Chiro, meaning (hand) and practice, meaning (practice or operation).

Although he never used drugs or medications during fever Palmer nursing broken, the pain ended, infections healed, vision improved, stomach disorders disappeared, and of course, hearing returned.

Using the adjustments to correct spinal misalignments, or subluxations, he realized he had to remove the nerve interference causing complaints of patients'. This was the birth of chiropractic.