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I have been a chiropractor and holistic health care provider for over 16 years, and frankly, some of the methods I use are pretty weird - even to me. Some of my patients jokingly (at least I think it’s jokingly) refer to me as their “witch doctor”, because I do things that certainly are outside the realm of conventional medicine and even outside the realm of what most chiropractors do.

I wasn’t always involved in “weird stuff” like energy medicine, muscle testing (applied kinesiology), laser acupuncture, and emotional release methods. In fact, when I was in chiropractic school, I was very much a “man of science” and felt that we should always verify things scientifically and use only those methods that had been proven by objective methods. But being a curious and open-minded person, I decided to at least look into some of the techniques I had once thought were obviously ineffective for no other reason than I couldn’t see any possible way they could actually work.

What I found was incredible. Some of these techniques not only worked, but worked fantastically well in cases where many other, more “scientific” treatments had failed miserably. So, I looked further and tried using other “weird” techniques, and while not all of them worked, several of them did work in the majority of cases. A “witch doctor” was born!

The problem with doing the things that I do is that they are hard to describe. Many times people will call my office because someone has referred them to me, and the person who referred them didn’t explain what I do very well, so they want me to explain it to them. I used to make a big effort to explain the underlying concepts, but most of the time this just ended with the person politely thanking me for my time and I never heard from them again. Now when someone calls about one of my “weird” techniques, I simply tell them that what I do is hard to explain, but it’s safe and painless and they really just need to experience it to understand. While I’m sure many are disappointed with that explanation, most will schedule a visit and come in, so it works a lot better than trying to explain the techniques I use.

When I first started using these methods, I didn’t know how they worked and was a little nervous about what my patients would think if I started doing some of these things that look like elaborate magic tricks. After a while though, as my success rate grew, I became quite confident in my methods and really didn’t care if at first people thought I was a quack. The quack got them better when the “real doctors” couldn’t help them. But the point of this is not to brag, because the main confession I have is that I realize that I am not the one doing the healing. I simply know how to re-set things in the body so it can heal itself. My part of the process is a small one. An important one perhaps, but small in comparison to all of the healing processes that take place in the body.

The body heals when given the opportunity to do so, and the doctor / health care provider is simply there to guide the patient on what to do to help the body do its job.

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