The first chiropractic patient.
FALSE!! The first patient had
hearing loss. He was adjusted in September 1895 in
Davenport Iowa USA and his hearing returned 3 days after
recieving a spinal adjustment from Dr Daniel David Palmer,
Chiropractor. His name was
Harvey
Lillard, an
African American.
Back pain is what chiropractors
have been pidgeonholed into "treating" because medicine,
historically, was virtually inept at managing it. A curious
notion, when back pain is one of the most costly
disabilities in the western world. Now they readily treat
with manipulation, re-learning lost wisdom, in addition to
drugs.
