Is this a hoax? The CCE wants to QUIT chiropractic and
be a medical board of some sort? Our professions are separate and distinct!

I’m staying put thank you. If I had wanted to be a medical doctor, I’d
have become one. Medicine didn’t save my father’s disc herniation
or my daughter’s allergies and chronic otitis media or the irritable bowel
that the medicine gave her. Chiropractic did fix these problems and changed our lives!

This week our office saw what chiropractic could do that medicine could NOT do.

Medicine didn’t help Will the first 16 years of his life that he wet the bed every night.
He wouldn’t go on hunting trips with cousins and friends, until chiropractic
let him wake up when his bladder wanted to empty. He’s doing so well now that he’s going hunting this weekend!

Susanne was taking ibuprofen every night for two years because of migraines and she couldn’t stop
even though she’s pregnant. Because of chiropractic, now she’s drug free for the last half of her pregnancy!

A three year old who quit trying to talk after he fell from a kitchen cupboard onto his head last year….was NOT helped
by the ER. They said he had a mild concussion and that his sudden lack of speech and active play was unrelated. His parents didn’t think of finding out if a chiropractor could help until 2 months ago. Now chiropractic care has him running and playing, talking and giggling with his big brothers again!

A man who has limped for 5 years after a stroke, started to get back pain that kept him awake and needing to sit up at night. He’s already on aspirin and other meds, so the medical doctor said to just use a heating pad for the pain. Naturally this did not help. Chiropractic care has allowed him to sleep in bed all night now!

Rhia was a very hyperactive, irritable, fussy eater, bed wetter, unhappy 5 year old who’s parents kept her out of kindergarten this year because they just couldn’t see how she could participate. They tried chiropractic as a last resort. Now she’s a well adjusted, big-girl-pants wearing, happy child. This report is hot off the adjusting table! She and her mother are beaming!

I need to get back to work now, or I’d tell you more….but…

I did, on Monday, refer a young lady to her medical doctor for blood work and further evaluation because she had malaise and swollen lymph nodes EVERYWHERE! Once they figure out what’s going on, they may or may not be able to help her. I’m glad to have medical peers who do their job properly. BUT I’m way more excited about being able to do MY job properly. MEDICINE DOESN’T DO WHAT I DO!

I may only be one person, but I made a difference to about 90 families this week. And I do NOT want to go MEDICAL!

OUR JOBS ARE SEPARATE AND DISTINCT. No changes please!

Sincerely,

Donna Kost, DC

www.drdonnakost.com

This comes from a chiropractor successfully practicing chiropractic. Not a chiropractor looking to make a buck utilizing another system from another profession. It is not about expanding our scope of practice, but learning how to successfully practice the principles of chiropractic.

Thank you Dr. Kost for you have said volumes with your email.

Separate and Distinct, Separate and Distinct, Separate and Distinct!!!!

Save the Chiropractic Profession Part 2 is a post from: Dr. Todd Osborne

I am pasting a copy of an email I received that explains very simply what we all need to do.

Action Needed to Respond to CCE’s Proposed Revisions for Practice

THANK YOU FOR TAKING ACTION TODAY.

This is simple. The battle is going to get bigger and nastier. We need to start right now, don’t wait! We need 10,000-20,000 chiropractors to send this to the CCE so we can get their attention. Please take 5 minutes of your time today as it may preserve the chiropractic profession for generations to come! Also, please pass this on to every chiropractor you know. I am getting it to every chiropractor that I can, please do the same if you want to keep our profession!

SEPARATE AND DISTINCT! SEPARATE AND DISTINCT! SEPARATE AND DISTINCT!

Save the Chiropractic Profession is a post from: Dr. Todd Osborne

How long has it been since you have had your “fire” relit? We as chiropractors tend to be on an island, an island bombarded by negativity toward our profession and our philosophy. It is easy to get beaten down and start slipping. Once that happens the quality of our thinking regresses and so goes our results and our practice numbers. We need each other. As much as I love technology and what we can accomplish from our own little island now, we have remain aware of the need for us to gather together. It is inspiring and fulfilling to know that you are not the “only one”, and others are experiencing the same thing you are experiencing. To be able to share friendship and fellowship with other D.C.’s whether you are attending a chiropractic management weekend, a technique seminar, or other type of training is something we all need to keep our batteries charged.

Recently someone told me, we do church all wrong in our society today. We come to church to be filled, when actually we should come to church filled and pour it out. I think we as chiropractors may do the same thing with our practice, going there expecting to be filled, rather than going in filled ready to pour it out on our patients. And we all know where that gets us.

Get to a chiropractic gathering of some sort and get your chiropractic tank filled, then go home and pour it out on your patients and your practice will grow. To steal a line from one of my mentors, if you can go be around a bunch of purpose minded chiropractors and that doesn’t light your fire, then your wood must be wet!

It’s difficult to keep your chiropractic fire burning when your on an island where almost everyone throws water on you all the time. My fire is lit, how about yours?

Is Your Chiropractic Fire Lit, Or Is Your Wood Wet? is a post from: Dr. Todd Osborne

I myself do not understand how chiropractors can practice for years and then make a statement to me as one did, “I’ve never seen anything but musculoskeletal improvements”. Really? You have never had a patient come in and ask, “Doctor, do you think what we are doing could have something to do with my irritable bowel clearing up?” Expectations are powerful, call it faith if you want. All I know is the chiropractors that expect their patients to get well see that exact thing happening in reality while those that don’t see the opposite reality.

We can take this from clinical results to getting new patients, receiving referrals, having compliant patients, and getting paid for your services. It is all affected by your expectations.

Are you expecting what you want to see? Or have you let other factors come in to make your expectations less than they should be.

Be the best and expect the best and you will get the best!

Great Chiropractic Expectations is a post from: Dr. Todd Osborne

Mental Toughness for Chiropractors is a post from: Dr. Todd Osborne

Here are some examples of the errors I was making communicating with patients. “I want to get some x-rays of your spine, I want you to use ice on this…., I want to see you again on Monday”. It really comes down to the fact that it has nothing to do with what I (or you) want, it is about what the patient needs. See if it sounds better this way, “You need to get some x-rays of your spine, you need to use ice on this…., you need to be here on Monday.

Yes I understand that you as a chiropractor want the patient to get well, you want to do the procedures that are needed for them to get well, you want to be successful in your chiropractic business, you want to make and income in your business, but this is not the way to communicate with patients. The new patient comes to the chiropractic office with a need, the ultimate driving force that gets them to walk through your door. The theme should be “their need”, don’t flip it over to your wants.

If it come right down to my wants, then I want every patient to get adjusted one time, I want them to hold that adjustment, I want them to send in everyone they know, and I want everyone to pay $10,000 cash for each adjustment. No, it is about what the patient needs. I must base my care, recommendations, procedures on what the patient needs.

If you will base everything on patient needs and communicate in that manner, it will make a difference in your patient compliance and chiropractic practice success.

The Chiropractor and The Needy is a post from: Dr. Todd Osborne

It is much more fun seeing 15 patient visits in 90 minutes than in 8 hours. It takes a lot less energy and you are able to be a better chiropractor to your patients when you schedule this way, you tend to get in a flow, in the zone if you will. You will never be better at serving your patients and removing subluxations than if you are in the flow. And it is much easier to get in the flow a couple of times a day, rather than trying to recreate it 15 times a day for 1 patient.

Use your time wisely in your practice, you will be a better doctor, help more people, and get more new patients! Remember, if you don’t create and control your schedule someone else will……

Chiropractic Vacuum is a post from: Dr. Todd Osborne

I wonder how well the chiropractic profession would do as a whole if all chiropractors were living unsubluxated lives? I bet if we could get the statistics that chiropractors that are unsubluxated have larger practices and bigger businesses than chiropractors walking around with their innate compromised. And just like your staff, don’t you think you are better promoter of your product when you are living it? To me it’s kind of like when a person 75 pounds overweight is trying to sell me on a weight loss program or exercise program! Although you patients may not be able to actually see that you are subluxated, I wonder if they can feel it, sense it with their innate?

For some, you may have an associate doctor right in your own office, great! For others it may be more of a commitment to maintain your own health. You may have to schedule time, drive a distance, plan your schedule around taking care of yourself. Gosh, almost sounds like what we ask patients to do??!!!

If you are staying in adjustment, fantastic, keep it up and keep serving people with and unobstructed innate. If you are not getting regular chiropractic care, then make the changes necessary to do so. You are worth it and your patient’s health is worth it! Start “living” chiropractic instead of just preaching it and you will see more patients, your practice will grow, and obviously your income will also. Get adjusted!

Get Adjusted Grow Your Chiropractic Practice is a post from: Dr. Todd Osborne

To another level, are you adjusting your staff only when they ask? Just when they are hurting? Or do you go through the entire new patient process with them, put them on a care plan, and then keep them checked regularly so they can have optimum chiropractic results and health? If you aren’t, why not? What I’m getting at is this. Your staff assigns a value to your care, just like you do. What do they know in order to assign that value? I want them to know not only what chiropractic is, but be a living testimonial of it. Make your care part of the benefits package of working in your office. What better health perk could there be?

Plus, who performs better at work, people under chiropractic care or those who are not? Do healthy people do a better job? There is nothing but good from making sure your staff is benefiting from the care that you offer in your office. “Align” your staff and they will be better at aligning your office and your practice growth.

Chiropractic Staff Alignment is a post from: Dr. Todd Osborne

As I said, you are the first to have access to the site, so here it is http://wehelpchiropractors.com/. Please click on it and enjoy the free information available to you.

Also, feel free to share this with any and all chiropractors you know. As a loyal reader, you know my passion and purpose is to help as many chiropractors as possible and preserve this profession. We have to do that one chiropractor at a time so any help you can give by passing this along would be much appreciated.

Chiropractors deserve to be successful and the principle has to be maintained and passed on for generations to come!

Insider for Chiropractors is a post from: Dr. Todd Osborne