Thank you all!
I made a list (See below) of people and techniques that have had some type of influence on me over the course of my 20 plus years of my Chiropractic career. It’s by no means an exhaustive list (I might have forgotten some and I am sure there will be more). Exposing my self (mind and/or body) to be open to another person’s ideas has been a gift for me. Each person on my list is just that - a person. A person with their own unique viewpoint and application to healing and/or improving function of the body Yes, there may be some motivated to expand and grow their viewpoints into a methodology and into an enterprise. But, who am I to judge them? I learn and use what makes sense to me. Besides, if it helps someone reduce their suffering and promote health, then good for them! What if these folks never thought (aka “thot”) outside the box?
When it comes to “health and wellness” we all have our unique perceptions, ideas, and experiences. What helps one might not help another, and even what might help someone at a particular time, might not help them at another time. The key is to be open. Regardless of what we think, the body strives for healing and better function when given a chance. One way I think about all of these techniques and applications is summed up in this word - Catalyst.
AUDE SAPERE! (Dare to taste, to experience, to understand)
- Samuel Hahneman, Father Of Homeopathy
I stepped back and contemplated all the knowledege and experiences that each person on my list must have gone through to share there unique perspectives with the world. Pretty amazing that the human body will take what it can and use it to heal and function better! In my opinion, the body doesn’t care what we call our techniques or our products, it just does what it wants to do naturally - function better and heal. Because the human body is matter and subject to external physical forces (Gravity for example and how it can influence negative forces on posture and instances of micro/macro trauma) and internal emotional stresses (like worry, fear and anxiety), it needs our own free will, choices and actions to resist and recover from these negative forces.
The Power that made the body heals the body.
- D.D. Palmer, Father of Chiropractic
My List
No particular order.
CHIROPRACTIC NAMES
Palmer
Smith
Gonstead
Fuhr
Harrison
Hoffman
Grostic
Anrig
Souza
Plaugher
Miller
Thompson
Koren
Goodman
Charrette
Cox
Nimmo
Logan
Pierce
Stillwagon
Pettibon
DeJarnett
Goodheart
Sweat
Webster
Spitler
MANUAL THERAPY TECHNIQUE AND NAMES
Barral
Smith
Still
Stecco
Rolf
Hammer
Lewitt
Lowen
Myers
Mitchell
Graston
Rossiter
Janda
Napravit
Tui Na
Tok Sen
Lomi Lomi
Strain-Counter Strain
Fascial Manipulation
Muscle Energy
Contractile Field Model
Direct/Indirect Fascial Creeping
Mobilization
Manual Mechanotherapy
Facilitated Positional Release
Visceral Manipulation
Dermoneuromodulationing
Balanced Ligamentous Tension Technique
OTHER NAMES/TECHNIQUES ASSOCIATED WITH POSTURE, RESEARCH, FITNESS AND THE LIKE.
McKenzie
McGill
Herzog
Beach
Egoscue
Chaitow
Pilates
Huff
Dvorak
Brady
Hightower
GOATA
Weck
Foundation Training
Functional Patterns
Dynamic Spinal Stabilization
Wim Hof
Naprapathy
Oakley Smith
Five Elements Chinese Acupuncture
S.O.T.
DNFT
Motion Palpation
Network Spinal Analysis
Catalyst System
CranioSacral
Reiki
Shanahan
Guyton
Hoppenfeld
Who is James Allen?
I’m a big fan of James Allen, a British philosophical writer that lived 1864 to 1912.
Here he starts an exerpt in a work called Bodily Conditions (From Man: king of mind, body, and circumstance.) It resonated with me.
“There are today scores of distinct schools devoted to the healing of the body; a fact which shows the great prevalence of physical suffering, as the hundreds of religions, devoted to the comforting of men’s minds prove the universality of mental suffering. Each of these schools has its place in so far as it is able to relieve suffering, even where it does not eradicate the evil; for with all these schools of healing, the facts of disease and pain remain with us, just as sin and sorrow remain despite of the many religions.”
