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October 2005, Vol. 15, Iss. 4
Table of Contents
A Time to Change • CBP® Annual Convention News • CBP® Performs Groundbreaking Car Crash Research • CCE Cited for Accreditation Violation • Dr Colloca Becomes a Reviewer for Spine and the European Spine Journal • ICA's Involvement in Hurricane Relief Efforts • JMPT Publications: Impulse™ Fairs Best Among Chiropractic Adjusting Instruments • Its Paul's Opinion • Letters to the Editor • Life University Opens Its Arms and Hearts to Katrina Victims • Micro-Reports Don't Work • PosturePrint™ Can Determine Axial Rotations • Quackbuster vs. Dr Ted Koren • The Chiropractic Genome • The Start of Something Big • The Unspoken • Updates on Aspertame
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The Chiropractic Genome
by Thomas O. Morgan, D.C., B.S., FICA, FPAC
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Dr. Tom Morgan and his wife, Mary Ann, are founders of Volume Practice Seminars. Their goal is to help doctors and staff achieve volume practices, become debt free, and live spiritually disciplined lives that glorify God.
Dr. Tom Morgan graduated from the Palmer College of Chiropractic, Davenport, Iowa. He holds a B.S. degree from Upper Iowa University in practice management. Also, he holds two honorary Fellow degrees. Dr. Morgan was in active chiropractic practice for over 30 years. He retired in 1996 at the age of 54. Since that time he has been teaching the Volume Practice Seminar and doing chiropractic consulting full time. During his time in practice, he had one of the largest high volume, cash practices in the world. He has written a book about these years entitled “VOLUME PRACTICE” and three more books about chiropractic. He is famous for his “Touch and Tell” system. Dr. Morgan is a member of the continuing education faculty at Palmer, he was also an instructor in Activator technique for over ten years. He also was president of a state Association and served on the state board of examiners for twelve years.
The Genome breakthrough in genetic research is very exciting. When the gene counters moved their laborious counting (only identifying 200 genes in ten years) into the stratosphere, the Genome was born. These scientists put all the genes in a computer “blender” and when they lined up in groups, they were able to separate and identify them like never before. It was a stroke of genius. They now have about two thirds identified. When I was in college, it was thought that our chromosomes and genes were fixed from generations past and that was it. Now we know that we pick up — or “add on” genes all the time. This happens as our nervous system reacts to our environment, changing our genetic expression day by day. After thirty years in family practice, I know that some subluxations seem to pass down from a parent to the child. One clinical conclusion points to a time when we clear out these “genetic” areas, then does the next generation not receive the propensity to receive that gene?
When we are included in the Genome studies, I think that someday the research will reveal how chiropractic adjustments cause innate to unscramble negative histological consequences in quadruple milliseconds, thus explaining our anecdotal results all these years. The down side of the Genome research is that it has created a race from entrepreneurs to identify pathology genes and thus begin new drugs to sell from their genetic engineering. Like altering our agricultural crops, there can be great risks to biology. Because our cells change structurally and behaviorally according to our environment (The Evolving Science of Chiropractic Part II. Bruce Lipton Ph.D. www.brucelipton.com/chiro2.php), we can change our genetics by changing our life; thus leaving negative influences behind. Yes, we can lose bad genes, because these genes are determined by what we are connected to in life.
When we disconnect, the gene can also disconnect. Looking at the genes of many Rabbis, The Genome scientists were able to see there was a gene that traced back to the gene of Levi, the original priest-tribe leader in Israel. Plus, when they studied special social groups, the scientists saw that these people all had a new gene too. I read about the “punk rock” genre. They all had a similar gene specific for the punkers. They talked alike, had their own culture of dress, speech, etc., and they became connected genetically. WOW! When a person left this group of “beautiful people,” and reverted back to regular dress and speech, the gene left. Interesting?
Couples pick up a like gene. After years, their speech is even similar, let alone they start thinking the same things at the same time. If that is true, then why couldn’t we pick up a “chiropractic gene” in chiropractic college? I think we do. I think that this chiropractic gene is polished the brightest in college; because there, we are the “consumers” of chiropractic. We were never connected or so immersed in chiropractic speech and thought as when we were in college. We don’t really understand much of it, but we are “fed” a lot of chiropractic. When we go in practice and become “contributors,” that is when we have to really guard our gene. This is when we can lose it. We have to do something everyday to “polish” our chiropractic gene. Like the “punkers,” we are different, separate and distinct. That environment, that chiropractic college cocoon, lets us hold a relationship with chiropractic as long as we are “fed” this gene.
I see the chiropractic gene go away from many doctors. We have to stay in contact with positive active chiropractic friends, go to chiropractic meetings, read materials from like chiropractic minds, attend techniques seminars, and most important; our “faith” must be kept intact and we must have this bond in our chiropractic social groups. It also helps if our spouses are also “chiropractic believers,” or he or she will dilute the gene. Why? Because no one thinks about health like we do. No one is trained like we are trained. No group out there is a true “alternative” to the drug and surgical lifestyle of our society.
We have to live outside this medical society as non-believers in all that medicine is selling. I think of the social groups I associate with right now outside chiropractic. When they start talking about their drugs, like it is commonly accepted practice to be drugged up with powerful synthetic, carcinogenic chemicals, I go blank. When the latest “craze” is to rush down and get a knee implant, because of pain in the knee joint, I don’t compute. It’s like there is a “rush to get an implant,” and everyone needs one! What do I do? I stare at them in amazement. I start my self-talk inside. I go back to the truths I hold dear.
I know the power of corrective care, of understanding cellular regeneration. I silently “look” at the positive results of my adjustments on patients. I know if I could get to these people and align their legs and pelvises over the years, they would have better, more stable joints. Our meniscus are not created to wear out so implants are necessary. I am determined that these medical pockets around me will not pull me off the great respect and appreciation for chiropractic that I have. It is off the board in my cortical firing order. I don’t go to their medical site. This is the site that says “look at the latest drug ad, see if it fits, start taking more synthetic drugs, pollute the bloodstream further and further. Submit to dangerous, system altering surgical procedures.”
There has to be a STOPPING point in the deepest point of your chiropractic soul, where you love chiropractic more than any drug, procedure, technology, or person in the medical world. I live my life like I was taught in chiropractic college. I look for ways to help innate change my tissue cells, and yes my genetics for the better, over time. I look more closely now at the non-chiropractic groups I hang with. If we stay away from their symptoms we do fine. I look at an organic diet, proper exercise, stressors, and the effects of subluxations. I want to NOT get in a crisis, to slip out of the only true “health” care system — chiropractic, and into the world of crisis medical care. I want to stay focused on “causes” for any symptoms; and, I want to stay close to those who do the same.
DON’T LET YOUR CHIROPRACTIC GENE DIE
Brokering practices, I talk to many DC’s who want to quit the profession, move on into the bowels of society, where they have lived in their minds for so long that the chiropractic gene has been lost or it has moved beyond a point of importance or prominence. I see their love die for what we are and what we do, and their respect for that difference between us and the medical world. This difference must be a point of pride for us. These doctors who want to leave are letting their chiropracTIC gene go away. I can tell by their cynicism, their remorse over being chiropractors.
I often tried to help these doctors. I meditated over these people, and prayed for answers to their indifference. My love and thankfulness to be a chiropractor was at complete odds with these people. I tried to polish their “TIC” gene, get them back in shape. I helped some of them stay in practice. I lost others — I saw them walk away, never to change a patient’s life with an adjustment again. I was saddened. More importantly, I was determined more than ever to coach my clients; to help them keep solid. It takes powerful resolve to keep hanging in there day by day over our adjusting tables. We have just scratched the surface understanding the subluxation. We are getting results that defy even us clinicians. And we expect results! Our research will eventually catch up to our results. There will be more and more information coming our way. We are on the great precipice of discovery.
Learn to protect yourself and your family’s chiropractic gene. Live the chiropractic lifestyle. Make a science of how to make it through life without ever taking a pill or seeing a medic. Beat them at their own “fear” game. Become impregnable, susceptible only to our beliefs, not to their fears. Learn to join chiropractic groups who are on the same path. Agree with and talk with those who look at everything we can do to change ourselves for the better; to live in an environment that helps innate to utilize every positive thought, every organic molecule, every physical workout for benefit.
We say we teach benefits, before the patients “feel” the need for our services. When a patient tunes into our beliefs, they want to factor chiropractic into their lives, like we do — forever. That is the rationale behind my 52 PVA for thirty years of practice. I vibrated chiropracTIC. I wanted them to be changed like I was — with the adjustment and with the principles of health and where it originates. Mary Ann and I trained our three children to know what the adjustment was and the difference between us and the medical lifestyle of their friends. We prayed for them to be DC’s, to experience where our respect is. I think they carried the chiropractic gene from birth. When they became DC’s themselves, it was a different day than our day, but they have a similar intent and love for the “TIC’ in chiropracTIC.
THE GREAT CHALLENGE
You also have to put the chiropractic gene into your patients. That’s the great challenge. Don’t just help them over their symptoms. That’s what’s expected, and that is not difficult. What is difficult is to change their “neural net” — to get our gene in them, to see if they can live a different lifestyle than the drug culture. They too need to make it through life without the synthetic chemicals in their tissues. They have to believe, and KNOW what we are about and how we do this day after day, year after year.
I have made a “bet” with families under my care. I told them to look at their medical bills year after year. Soon there would be a year without ANY medical bills, if they stayed on the chiropractic program. Have you noticed when a patient picks up the TIC gene, he or she becomes like family to us. They come regularly, refer others for care, bring their families, and brag on being drug free. We would do anything, come in anytime for them, because they believe. They know the results first hand. No doctor has all the answers, but we know what works. We know the natural lifestyle, how to live it and be involved in it. But, we have to keep working on it as an example ourselves and we have to teach it to our patients.
Next, is the challenge to keep your TIC gene polished. Bear down on it every day. That means, reading chiropractic literature, going to chiropractic meetings, giving to chiropractic causes/groups. It means making an effort to be around and listening to chiropractic leaders and coaches. It means staying close to the Harrison’s and other technique instructors and going to classes to be a better adjustor. It also means having a peer group that is positive and going places. I personally recommend the new LIFE SOURCE SEMINAR in Atlanta in October (www.LifeSource.com). Maya Angelou, Bruce Lipton, Dan Millman, Guy Riekeman will be speaking along with a powerful chiropractic “gene” team. You will come away with your TIC gene polished and shining bright, vibrating to let the world around you know that you can help them.
So, put your TIC gene in your patients. For me, it is The Touch & Tell System that put something into my patient each visit — to build our gene in them. Next is your new patient class. Don’t miss the opportunity to lecture your new patients on chiropractic principles, about what we know is true and to look for those who come into your practice, who want to pick up the gene. You have it for them doctors, now go to work!
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