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Taking credit means taking blame.
One of the biggest traps chiropractors can fall into is slowly starting to take responsibility for every positive thing that happens in somebody’s life.
A person’s headaches improve.
A child starts doing better in school.
Somebody sleeps better.
Somebody has more energy.
Somebody’s digestion changes.
Somebody’s anxiety decreases.
Somebody’s pain goes away.
Over time, chiropractors can begin mentally connecting every positive change directly back to chiropractic.
But the problem is this:
The moment chiropractors start taking credit for every positive thing that happens in somebody’s life, they also quietly inherit responsibility when life starts moving in the opposite direction.
And eventually it will.
Human life moves in cycles.
People improve.
People regress.
People get sick.
People recover.
People deteriorate.
People age.
People go through stress.
People experience loss.
Eventually all of us die.
No chiropractor controls all the variables involved in another human being’s life.
People are constantly exposed to physical, chemical, and emotional stress.
People make choices.
People adapt differently.
People heal differently.
That’s one of the reasons why we do not base your care on how you are feeling. How you are feeling says nothing about how you are functioning.
Not because people never notice changes afterward.
Not because positive things never happen.
Not because we don't care about people.
But because nobody can say with absolute certainty exactly why every change occurred.
Sometimes changes happen after vertebral subluxation correction.
Sometimes they do not.
Sometimes they may have happened anyway regardless of chiropractic.
A father once told his chiropractor:
“Ever since my son started getting his spine checked, he’s doing much better in school.”
The chiropractotr replied:
“It’s not that I don’t appreciate hearing positive things happen. I’m glad when people notice positive changes. Sometimes changes happen quickly, sometimes they take time, sometimes there’s no noticeable change at all, and sometimes changes happen that may have had nothing to do with chiropractic in the first place and were simply going to happen anyway.
The reality is none of us can predict these things with absolute certainty.”
So we bring the conversation back to the objective - what we do as chiropractors and why we do it.
Regardless of what somebody notices or does not notice, people are still better off free from vertebral subluxation than with vertebral subluxation because vertebral subluxation represents interference to the expression of life through the body.
That objective stays consistent independent of outcomes.
The objective does not revolve around trying to predict, promise, explain, or take ownership over every change happening in somebody’s life.
The chiropractic objective is:
locate and correct vertebral subluxation because vertebral subluxation represents interference to the expression of life through the body.
That objective remains stable whether symptoms improve or not.
Whether somebody notices changes or not.
Whether life temporarily gets better or worse afterward.
Excerpted from an article by our good friend and colleague, Tom Gregory, DC
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