Everyone is Judging Me

I got into Chiropractic to help people. I have been helped by chiropractic, I had been given my life back, and I simply wanted to pass this gift along to others.

What I didn’t know was how much people would judge me, accuse me of being downright evil and taking advantage of people. Accuse me of tricking people into coming to see me who don’t need to. Accuse me of really being out to hurt people and take their money. I didn’t know the stigma that comes with proudly saying, “I am a Doctor of Chiropractic”.

When I am helping a pregnant patient get relief from low back pain, I didn’t know her endocrinologist would tell her getting adjusted while pregnant is like taking crack.

I didn’t know that after adjusting an 8 month old girl for chronic ear infections, which she had been on multiple rounds of antibiotics for and her parents had been told the only way they would heal is having tubes put in, that when they cleared up the pediatrician would say “it is a coincidence they cleared up while she was getting treated, chiropractic doesn’t work and it is dangerous to take your child to get adjusted”.

I didn’t know that when I helped a women with balancing her hormones naturally her gynecologist would scare her and say she wouldn’t be able to have children if she tried those natural methods. That she needed to be on synthetic hormones instead.

I didn’t know that when I helped someone in pain from a car accident, that they were not at fault in, that an attorney would call and verbally abuse me accusing me of not being a licensed physician, of trying to take money from people by providing care that people didn’t need, and of overall being unethical.

These people who don’t know me and don’t understand what I do have accused me of being unethical, unqualified and dangerous, and yet I still proudly say “I am a Doctor of Chiropractic”.
Why?

Because of each pregnancy that has less pain and a safe natural labor, because of each of those moms who bring me their couple day old newborns to be checked, because of each little kid’s beaming smile after they get adjusted, because of each parent who says thank you my child didn’t have to have tubes put in their ears, thank you my child doesn’t suffer from _____ anymore. Because of each women who comes in and says “I’m finally pregnant”, Because of each person who says I have my life back, free from _______.

While I didn’t make any of these things happen, God has allowed me to work with people removing interference from their nervous system, through chiropractic care, so that their bodies can heal and do these things naturally on their own.

I see Chiropractic work safe and effectively every single day.
So thank you to each and every person who has allowed me to place my hands on them. It is because of you that despite the stigma I will continue to proudly say “I am a Doctor of Chiropractic”.

So you can keep judging me, but until you take the time to know who I am and what I do, your judgment means nothing.