Chiropractic Founders Day!

Happy Chiropractic Founder Day Everyone!

On this date (September 18^th) in 1895, an event took place that would forever impact our health care! That event was the first ever adjustment!

Dr. Daniel David Palmer, a groundbreaking clinician located in Davenport, Iowa, administered the first specific chiropractic adjustment on a patient named Harvey Lillard. Dr. Palmer preformed this historic first ever chiropractic adjustment with the intent of realigning a malpositioned vertebra on Harvey to help restore that vertebra back to its correct position. Harvey, whom lost most of his hearing 17 years prior, found that his hearing had quickly returned under Dr. Palmer’s care. After seeing the results, Dr. Palmer shifted his clinical practice to his methods of realigning spinal bones that were out of position. This lead to a high range of positive clinical results in patients coming to him with a wide array of health concerns. Thus, making his practice grow and the profession on Chiropractic developed and grow into the unique, drugless and distinct doctor-level health care profession that we all know it as today.

Chiropractic is built on the recognition that the human body is a self-healing, self-regulating organism. The study of chiropractic understands how the body needs no interference with its innate capacities for self-coordination, organized communication, and repair. The revolutionary efforts that Dr. D.D. Palmer started in a time were deemed as an affront to the orthodox medical industry of the era is now an accepted concept and credible that is widely-recognized around the world.

If it weren’t for this historic date who knows what our health care would look like today, as well as what Dr. Bucek would professionally be doing!