From a doc who uses Advanced BioStructural Correction™  and was getting treated but still had things hanging on.  What to do was easily predictable right from the history.

Hi Jesse,
I reinjured my low back playing golf.  Hit down on a 6 iron to get it over some trees and 200 yards.  Hit into the earth too much and the heavy force went right into my low back.  In swinging, I have a very hard time transferring weight onto my left side to follow through on the shot.
Carlos (Dr. Pacini) is working with me but for some reason the low back is not letting go.  He has worked the upper back and does me standing on the T-L area and lower.  I have quite a "grip" going on in the left L4-5 and S1 area and antalgic to the same side.  No radicular pains but my dermatomes are hypersensitive to touch. I am a Left B/D.  Makes it real difficult to be a chiro myself.  Any suggestions?   Dr.XXXX

The Predictable Response:
Stretch to the opposite side before going left.  You might even try going right first, and staying that way if it works out. May take a day or two to get past the swelling now there since it was not released the first time.   Dr. J


Hi Jesse,
Thanks for your input on the back.  Carlos (Dr. Pacini) tried that first thing, so is doing things according to the protocol.  Dr. XXXX


Later after being treated again Dr. Jerry writes:

Hi Jesse, Thanks.  The going right real hard was the ticket.  It is much better.  Can you explain why this is?   I am aware that this works with several of my patients too, but not sure the mechanism.   Dr. XXXX 

Doc,

The new injury was overlying the old in the other direction OR the new injury made the problem bad enough to have your body create an overlying overcompensation (by definition the opposite side).  Which it is on which patient is irrelevant because the treatment is the same.

People think I am arrogant or otherwise foolish when I say it but the truth is that you can depend upon Advanced BioStructural Correction™ working well in every case that does not involve changes in bone structure (fractures, anomalies, etc.). It is that consistent and predictable in its results.     That being true, if ABC™ does not get the results wanted, either:

1. You are on the wrong side (for that day moment or just plain wrong side).

2. The person is too swollen for you to be able to get everything that needs to be moved into its optimal position there -- You will get it all if you see them again in 4-5 hours or the next day (because the swelling is down and you can physically move the bones where they need to go -- if they do not do #3.

3. The patient is doing something that constantly reinjures them self when they are out of the office.  (Sitting on chairs or in cars, sleeping in positions, or having shoes that throw them off balance and cause their bodies to stick them there.)

4. The doc did not get everything because of technical incompetent application.

Competent docs are always thinking that  they did not get something because they want to be able to fix everyone on the first visit. Nice, but 99% of the time the doc is doing everything s/he is supposed to do it is just not the way bodies are made and injured. Most docs that ask #4, "What am I missing?" but they are rarely missing anything. They find the answer is #1 if the patient is not well on their way as soon as you get done adjusting and #3 if they leave the office and constantly come back hurting.


In your case doc, consider the first paragraph above (this last email): Stretching to the other side might have eventually gotten it if the swelling went down -- which would take who knows how long -- but the most effective thing to do in that case is what was done, force it and start the process.

Now, if you are going to stay and need treatment right or get this corrected and go back to your pattern left will depend upon where your body was before the most recent injury.  You could have had the injury because your body changed directions after finally releasing a large overlying overcompensation -- yes, I know how long it has been -- I have told everyone that chiropractors are the worst patients to treat because of the past adjusting that might have been in the exact right place and the wrong direction and caused.....etc.
 

Every patient and Doc (especially using Advanced BioStructural Correction™) should read that last paragraph well. This is especially true for the second sentence on why the injury probably occurred. There was no where near enough force -- even digging a six iron hard into the ground as this doc did -- to injury someone's back who is not either going forward big time, or just not right mechanically for some other reason.

You will find that almost all injuries, even those involving a lot of force, that occur on the athletic field without impacts from another person happen because of some weakness in body structure that was there BEFORE the injury. That is why people who have gone through the Advanced BioStructural Correction™ program find they almost never get injuries doing sports activities unless their shoes are causing difficulty -- see an Advanced BioStructural Correction™ doc about that.

It also means that when correcting people who have injuries on the athletic field YOU MUST DO THE ENTIRE Advanced BioStructural Correction™ PROTOCOL OR THE INJURY WILL LIKELY COME BACK!!

Dr. Jesse Jutkowitz
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