This was the conversation I had most recently with a patient of mine. She had recently taken her kid to see his pediatrician. Later that morning she cancelled all of his future appointments.
Frustrated. Angry. Disappointed.
These are the emotions that I felt initially. How could a physician who has NO formal training in the chiropractic profession determine whether or not our mutual patient can or cannot receive chiropractic care? If I have no formal training in prescribing medication, how could I possibly tell someone which ones they need? Which ones they don’t?
The answer is I DON’T.
Like most things, when I encounter a challenge, I turn inward and ask how does this serve me to learn from? I realized quickly that the pediatrician probably thinks that chiropractic adjustments are a ‘once size fits all’ approach. That the same type of traditional manual adjustments are the only tool in the chiropractor’s toolkit. That adjusting a child is akin to a ninja movie, whereby someone violently turns someone’s head.
