by Dr. Michelle Irwin

Something you may have noticed as you have been coming into the office is that we do things a little different from other chiropractic offices.  We look at the body as a whole, not as one system at a time. That being said, we also look at chiropractic as being a whole and not one technique over another. We use several different techniques that can be used during one session or if a person responds best to a particular technique, we use that one for that person each time they come in.

As we were doing our weekly doctor’s training on Friday, we got to talking about how we go through our analysis. Something that we do every day. It finally occurred to me as Dr. Jeremy was going through what we do, that we are actually very unique in the sense that we don’t just look at the body as a tonal neurologic model that will find its adaptive best function, or only a biomechanical model that needs to be put back together with a given blueprint specification to work like a machine. We use the two together because we are complex beings that each have our own ideal within us that is based on the environment that surrounds us and is within us all.

A lot of people within any profession think that there is only one way to go about getting the desired results, but our office has never been about being a cookie cutter plan for each person who walks through the door. I have been working with Dr. Jeremy and Dr. Leah for 8 years now and never did it occur to me that there could be other offices or doctors who thought differently. We work with groups utilizing diverse techniques and talk with other doctors who are of similar mind, so I just never thought about it. I knew that we were different, but it finally hit me just how unique we are in this world. Not just in comparison to other types of doctors but to other chiropractors as well.

When we look at the fundamentals of chiropractic as a whole, and don’t take them as individual bullet points, the marriage of neurologic tone and biomechanical function are what chiropractic is all about. This month, I have been writing about the fundamentals in this way to help you all understand them and it was not until Friday that I realized just how special understanding chiropractic this way truly is. I hope you all join us at the end of the month for our lunch time workshop and get just as excited about how the body works optimally with chiropractic as I am.