The First Chiropractic Patient

 

Have you ever wondered how chiropracty got started? There's actually a very interesting story behind it! The first chiropractic patient was a man named Harvey Lillard. Lillard worked as a janitor in the Ryan Building in Davenport, Iowa, where a doctor named DD Palmer had an office. The two began to chat, and Lillard told Palmer that he was almost completely deaf. In fact, he wasn't able to hear the ticking of a watch or the sound of a wagon on the street. He had become deaf, he explained, after hearing something 'pop' in his spine while he was bent over in a cramped position.

Palmer offered to look at Lillard, and noticed a lump between his shoulder blades. On a hunch, he convinced Lillard to let him 'rack the bone back into position.' He pushed the vertebrae back in place, performing the first back adjustment. A few days later, Lillard reported that his hearing was almost fully restored.

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