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by Dr. Patric Gentempo & Rick Sapio

In part one of this chiropractic assessment I spoke about the "silent dread." This is where chiropractors are selling a product they are not sure they are delivering. And in today’s environment, you won’t last very long if you suffer from the "silent dread." In continuing down that road, I have some questions for you. Do you tell people that you don’t rely on pain to tell them when things are right or wrong? However, when they have pain you see them more often, and when they don’t you see them less often? Do you adjust your own children and advise your patients that they need to bring their children in for care? How many children do you see? The last survey I ran, in the offices that claimed to be subluxation-based, it was about 7% on average. I discovered a huge contradiction in typical chiropractic procedures that debilitates a practice and sucks the potential out of what it could be.

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by Dr. Patric Gentempo & Rick Sapio

In the past I have written and lectured about what I perceive to be one of the biggest challenges facing our profession and I have articulated it this way – we are selling a product we are not sure we are delivering! We claim that the consequence of adjusting the spine is improved neuro-performance through the correction of vertebral subluxation(s). We further assert that only a minority of the nervous system is used to experience pain, hence we don’t rely on pain as an indicator as to whether or not an individual may benefit from an adjustment. The “missing link” in many chiropractic practices is contemporary technology that is congruent with the clinical intent of the chiropractor and that simultaneously reveals in understandable terms the vital role and benefit of chiropractic care for patients and prospective patients.

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Tags: Subluxation