History

History of Chiropractic

On September 18th, 1895, a man named D.D. Palmer discovered something that changed the existence of mankind forever. D.D. Palmer made the very first Chiropractic adjustment on a man named Harvey Lillard. The reason this was such a big deal was because after having the second vertebra in his neck adjusted his hearing was restored. Harvey Lillard had been deaf for 17 years! This is how chiropractic began.  

Chiropractic is based on a principle and philosophy that our body has the natural ability to heal. The body doesn’t need any assistance - as long as there is no interference. This interference which prohibits the body's ability to heal is interference within the Central Nervous System.  D.D. Palmer had a son named Bartlett Joshua Palmer (BJ Palmer). BJ Palmer was determined to carry his father’s discovery and to share it with everyone in the world. He studied the spine year after year and developed chiropractic techniques of adjusting the spine. Finally, in 1935 he opened the BJ Palmer Research Center. 

This clinic remained open for 16 years taking care of patients with conditions from headaches to psoriasis to cancer and tumors. There was not a single condition that wasn’t accepted at the BJ Palmer clinic. What made this clinic so special was that the only area in the spine where patients were adjusted was in this upper most portion of the spine or Upper Cervical spine. After BJ Palmer’s 16 years of research, he concluded that the Upper Cervical spine (top two bones of the spine) is where the cause of all sickness and disease is found.  He also stated that the only place man can have both neurological and mental interference is in the upper most portions of the spine because the top two vertebrae of the spine are the only vertebrae that do not have a locking joint protecting the most vital area in the body… (Brain Stem) the junction where the brain and spinal cord meet.