Berman Chiropractic

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Marc A. Berman, Chiropractor  

Oh, my aching back ...not!

 

I'm not boasting.

You know, we chiropractors should have perfect backs.  But we're human, too.

I personally get my spine checked every other week.  I rarely have a special need for "getting adjusted because I hurt."

With the amount of snow that we've been getting, some people are coming in due to shoveling, slips, and accidents.

That's life.

What I've noticed in my short amount of time as a chiropractor (practicing 30 years), is people who are regular with chiropractic (coming in NOT only when they have an issue) recover from these unfortunate mishaps quicker and with less complications.

When communication between the brain and the rest of the body is optimal, the body is better at adapting to the environment (i.e. mishaps).

When I need to make a decision to open/close the office, I have a system in place for communicating important information to the body of my practice members.  I know who is supposed to come into the office from my home ... aren't computers great!  I can post a notice on my website or I can phone people.  I can send out an email, a tweet or a post on Facebook, etc.  As long as I have a good connection on the internet, as long as the phone is connected to the network, as long as the lines are free from interference...I can adequately adapt to the circumstances.

All of that is possible because I have set things up for the possibility that things don't go exactly as planned.

That's life.

Berman Chiropractic Snow Update ...Again

Due to the weather and the condition of the roads, as well as the office driveway, office hours will be altered.

 Please call 410-363-4333 before heading out to the office.

Berman Chiropractic will be open Wednesday!

Thanks to Bill, the driveway and parking lot have been cleared of snow.

There is only one driveway into the parking lot.

Berman Chiropractic Snow Update

As of 12 this afternoon, Bill will be plowing the driveway and parking lot. I am planning to have the office open tomorrow morning.  Please check again later this afternoon or call me.

SNOW CLOSING MONDAY DECEMBER 21, 2009

I am in New York and am not able to get back to Baltimore until Monday night. Please call the office for further information.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Confusing Choices

I just read an article that promotes a concept or philosophy that I have been trying to promote for a long time.

Too many choices are often confusing. It sometimes is better to be given less choices but with guidance and supervision.

In health care we, as patients, want to have the best care possible. With too many experts proclaiming their expertise, making the correct choice is no easy task.

One of the biggest attractions for my choosing chiropractic as a career was that it offered a fundamental need for every person. The need to insure that all systems within our body communicated with every other system.

Remember the telephone game?  Someone whispers something into the next persons ear and the message is changed by the end. Not too funny if this is going on in the body when the messages are vital!

According to chiropractic philosophy and science, messages are blocked in the presence of a vertebral subluxation.

If you have a subluxation, the choice is simple. Get rid of it. 

By making chiropractic care a part of your wellness program, the body can function better by improving communication of its messages. If the vital information is being communicated properly then your choices of what you need to do to be healthy becomes easier.

I like easy.

10 Top Reasons for Not Getting Sick

#10.You will look and feel better.

#9.  Economically makes sense.

#8.  You'll have more friends ... they will want to hang with you more.

#7.  You won't fall for all the ad's and gimmicks out there that are trying to sell you their special of the day.

#6.  Less visits to the pharmacy where you'll be sure to meet more sick people and more products to buy.

#5.  Same as #6 but replace pharmacy with doctor's office.

#4.  More time to consider and do healthy things, ie: proper diet, proper exercise, get to the chiropractor.

#3.  Live longer.

#2.  The country will be healthier, financially and physically.

#1.  Staying healthy is more logical than avoiding being sick.

Feeling better or functioning better

I am sitting in a doctor's office. I am not a patient. I am waiting for my wife to finish with her eye exam.  As I look around the office, I can't help but wonder how these patients' expectations differ from my patients' expectations.

I guess they expect to feel better or see better.

At the chiropractor's office, they probably expect to feel better. They probably are not considering that they might see better, or hear better, or digest better, or breathe better.

Why not?  Because chiropractors are put in the musculoskeletal box of back, neck or shoulder, etc., relief.

Even though the very first chiropractic adjustment apparently corrected a hearing problem.

When people come to see me, I educate them about the benefit of chiropractic care ... for life! The next time they sit in my reception area, they will be anticipating some life changing event that may not be as obvious as seeing better but perhaps just as significant.

I want everyone to get what they expect from chiropractic. That is the minimum of what I offer. I also want them to get more than what they expect. That is the beauty of chiropractic, it is also its greatest challenge!  How do I educate people to realize that by adjusting their spine, an entire sequence of events is set into motion that will allow their body to function better than before they received their adjustment?

I try not to talk much about symptoms because I want the focus of chiropractic to be on optimum function. I want their symptoms to resolve and I have confidence that they will. But it is too easy to confuse the chiropractic objective with the medical objective.  

These patients in the ophthalmology office are going to receive a great service and benefit. The people who are waiting in their chiropractor's office are also going to receive a great service and benefit ... hopefully, they will feel better, certainly they will function better.

I am really scared!!!

I read an article that was written by a former leader of the Chiropractic profession. 

In it, he expresses his reasons why he didn't, and doesn't, adjust his colleagues at conventions when asked by them for "an adjustment."  My judgment is that his reasons confuse both the public and other chiropractors about the value of chiropractic.

Certainly the reasons listed for the refusal "to adjust" (meaning treatment) would be applicable if he were an MD and was asked for a pill or to perform surgery. Is that what these other chiropractors wanted (treatment)?

This is an injustice to our patients, friends, colleagues and essentially to mankind. Chiropractors have lost their uniqueness because, like the public, chiropractors have fallen victim to the medical model of health.

Health is serious  business. The community needs us to lead them with a value system that clearly expresses what we do when we "give" an adjustment.  It is not treatment, but rather an assist to the body in removing an interference to our vital communication system.

What scares me is that too many chiropractors may have lost the value of why we "adjust" and so we end up pushing adjustments for pain.  In my view, that isn't much different than pushing drugs for pain.

What do you think?