My colleagues, professors, and counterparts were using words like “innate intelligence”, “subluxation”, “pinched nerve,” “disc degeneration,” and “aging process.” All standard terminology among the chiropractic and medical community.
But what I saw through an engineering lens was “nerve impingement,” “impedance”,“disc desiccation,” and “entropy.”
This way of thinking carried into my treatment plan with patients. I approached each individual as though I was examining a machine like an engineer (with a better bedside manner, of course).
There was one particular condition I kept seeing over and over again in 97% of the patients that walked through my door. While they each came to me with different symptoms, aches, and pains, there was ONE condition they all had in common:
Spinal stenosis (or as it’s more commonly called in the chiropractic world, subluxation). The general rule is that there is no official “cure” for spinal stenosis, and in fact, it’s the leading case of spinal surgeries in the country.