Actually in the last century when I was a chiropractic student I visited many chiropractors to observe their technique and to learn from them. Anyway I knew from playing basketball that if you want to be good, you have to learn from the best. So that's why I spent as much time as possible with one of my mentors. While standing and observing in his adjusting room, one of his patients told me a story. Actually it was a dream that she had a while back and it truly made a huge impact on me. This is one of those stories that pops into my head when I study a very tough case on an X-Ray and it helps me to concentrate so I can find the best way of adjusting and helping this patient. This lady has suffered with lower back pain for so many years and she has literally tried everything to get some relief. From time to time she would feel a little better, but living her life in this state was just really hard on her. I could see it in her eyes when she looked at me - they filled a little bit with tears as she spoke.
Here is the dream:
In her dream she was walking and suddenly felt GOD behind her. She didn't know how she knew and she was afraid to turn around, but she knew GOD was behind her. Suddenly she felt two fingers running down her spine and GOD spoke to her that she would be healed. She was so excited: GOD touched her spine and promised healing. When she woke up she was ready to jump out of bed, but she couldn't - the pain in her back was too great - just like always. But she didn't have any doubt that she would be healed so she slowly went to a medical office that was just across from my mentor's office. But right before the entered she turned around and saw the small chiropractic office just about 100 ft away. To shorten the story, she ended up in front of my mentor's office, entered and got examined. For people who don't know what this entails, it consists of taking the patient's history, static and motion palpation, visualization, instrumentation and then if there are signs of a subluxation the taking of an X-Ray. The instrumentation part of the examination is done with a nervoscope. It is being moved downward on the spine and the two thermocouple probes are gliding down to the left and right side of the spine. While the doctor moved the two probes down her spine she remembered her dream in which GOD dragged his two fingers down her spine. According to her it felt the same! (This still gives me chills.) After the doctor was done she started to cry and shared her dream with him. After taking X-Rays the doctor saw how to correct her particular spinal problem. Then she got adjusted and improved right away. After a series of adjustments the dream came true! Did she get healed? I believe she did - she now is pain free and her occasional visits to her chiropractor are mainly to maintain her adjustments.

When I was playing professional basketball in Europe I suffered through many episodes of lower back pain. To keep this story short, after trying different treatments (which ALL of them were meant to fight symptoms and NOT to correct the cause of the problem - you know which ones I am talking about) I was told to have back surgery. Actually I was ready to do it, but one of my friends talked me out of it. I figured he should know: he is an orthopedic surgeon himself and he was able to see the outcome of many back surgeries. He told me to either live with the pain or to find a very specific form of "treatment" to get the pressure off the nerve. I believe I found it in the Gonstead system of chiropractic. But let me show you what really fascinated me about the Gonstead system (besides the article "The Miracle Man" - words are being used in old website including the picture of me and drs cox) When I was a student I found out that there are many different chiropractic techniques out there. I am the kind of guy who rather picks one technique and tries to master it instead of picking several and not perfecting them. So in my quest for the technique to do, I came upon a few chiropractors. They were so kind and let me watch them adjust each other and some of their patients. But one day was different: one of them got hurt in a water skiing accident and he desperately need to have his back fixed up so he could go to work. He chose the Gonstead technique, even though he didn't practice it himself. I was intrigued and started looking into this system. I joined the school's Gonstead club and went to as many seminars that I could go to. The result is a system that analyzes a patient with visualization, digital and motion palpation, instrumentation and X-Rays. In other words we are using several tools to find out which vertebra in your spine is not moving properly in order to correct this misalignment. This is supposed to take the pressure of the nerve and restore the function of the spine, thus eliminating the problem which caused the symptom such as sciatica in the first place.