Chiropractic San Diego

By Michael Dorausch, DC

I was looking for a computer disk in the closet earlier and I found an old piece of paper with a photocopy featuring some text from BJ Palmer, the developer of chiropractic. Some will criticize the information posted, others will say that the words are just as strong and true today as they were when first written. Here is a scan of the image followed by a link to a PDF file I created of the photocopy before recycling it.

For those interested, here is the PDF file. BJ Palmer Medical Mimicry

I don’t know why this was on the shelf by itself, but not so oddly, I was having some thoughts about this subject earlier today. If you’re viewing the image above and its not clear what the text reads, it’s as follows…

The world is indoctrinated in medicine. People are conceived and born in a medicine cabinet. They grow up in a drugstore. Their priests and their tin gods are the AMA. They have been brain-washed, hypnotized, mesmerized and drugged to believe their life-force comes from Outside-In.

Chiropractic must un-brainwash the public and demonstrate that health comes from Inside-Out. But first we must un-brainwash the chiropractic, too many of whom have themselves not caught the idea that the vertebral adjustment releases Innate, works in harmony with Innate, becomes a partner with Innate in effecting the cure.

B.J. Palmer, D.C. Ph.C.

By Michael Dorausch, DC

This post relates to a chiropractic college that existed during a short period in the state of Colorado. It’s a reminder of the importance in choosing a chiropractic school that has a strong historical background, good accreditation status, and hopefully a solid financial structure, when making the choice of a career as doctor of chiropractic.

The Colorado College of Chiropractic was part of Marycrest International University and it was located in Denver, Colorado.

The school was closed by the end of its 2001 2002 school year, as a result of continued declines in student enrollment, as well as persistent financial difficulties.

On May 17 of 2000, Marycrest International University announced plans to develop a doctoral program in chiropractic, which was approved by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

According to the announcement the school was to begin offering courses in chiropractic during the fall of 2000. After receiving approval from the North Central Association (NCA), the hiring of faculty and staff, and the recruitment of perspective chiropractic students was underway.

The chiropractic program was located at a sister institution, Teikyo Loretto Heights, in Denver. The Colorado chiropractic school was to be focused on a contemporary approach to chiropractic in an evidenced-based environment, according to Dean Dr. Robert Davison.

If you were to visit to the chiropractic site in 2001, you’d be greeted by a welcome message that read…

At Colorado College of Chiropractic, we’re shaping a new generation of chiropractors. We’re building on what’s come before. We’re breaking through barriers. We’re training primary members of the health care team. We are a growing group of professionals who are dedicated to the vision of taking chiropractic beyond where it has ever been before.

We’re taking chiropractic Beyond the Expected.

Unfortunately for the institution, the school could not keep up in the increasingly competitive environments that is natural amongst chiropractic schools in the United States.

This school was unlike the Westside Manhattan Chiropractic College that I wrote about in July. It’s rare to see a new chiropractic learning institution open up in the United States. I believe the most recent was the Palmer Florida campus in Port Orange. Some chiropractic schools have histories that date back to the early 1900s.

The Palmer School of Chiropractic in Davenport Iowa, was the first existence, and is often referred to as the Fountainhead. Schools like Western States and the Cleveland chiropractic colleges have histories that root back to the founder of chiropractic himself, magnetic healer DD Palmer. From what I understand Dr. Palmer helped create the Portland school of chiropractic, later becoming Western States, and was on the faculty of Ratladge school of chiropractic in Los Angeles, which became CCCLA in the 1950s.

I’m curious if there are any practicing Ratledge graduates in the California area.

It was September 18, 1895 (113 years ago today) that a magnetic healer by the name of Daniel David Palmer racked a vertebrae back into position on the neck of a janitor who had gone deaf some 17 years earlier.

The man, who became known as the Father of Chiropractic, was practicing the art of magnetic healing in the Ryan building in Davenport Iowa when he encountered building janitor Harvey Lillard, who had been deaf for many years after suffering an injury.

As the story goes, DD Palmer palpated a lump on the janitors neck, theorizing that the two were related. Moving the vertebrae back into position Harvey Lillards hearing was reportedly restored and what was to become the practice of Chiropractic was born.

DD was born in Canada (March 7, 1845) and he moved to the United States when he was 20 years old. During his young years DD held jobs as a schoolteacher, beekeeper, and grocery store owner. He had a great interest and the health philosophies of the late 1800s, including topics such as magnetic healing and spiritualism.

His theory of the day centered on the concept that altered nerve flow was the cause of all dis-ease, and that misaligned spinal vertebrae had an affect on nerve flow. Palmer believed that restoring misaligned spinal vertebrae to their proper position would result in restoration of health.

To say his theories and postulations were met with great criticism would be an understatement but they were radically different from those commonly being presented at the time.

113 years later I I’m here writing about this on the Interwebz and I think that’s pretty darn cool. Party on DD!