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When I first got started with chiropractic, I learned that the very first chiropractic patient was a man who had been deaf for seventeen years.

Three days after his first adjustment—the first chiropractic adjustment in history—the man could hear.

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The year was 1895. Working out of an office in Davenport Iowa, Dr. Daniel David Palmer was researching the concept of healing without drugs, and believe me, this was just as radical a theory back then as it is today.

On September 18, Harvey Lillard, the hearing impaired African-American janitor who worked on the building’s fourth floor, entered D.D. Palmer’s office complaining about neck pain.

Out of curiosity, D.D. asked Lillard how he had lost his hearing. Lillard told him it had all started one day when he had simply bent down to pick up a box.

“While in a cramped, stooped position,” Lillard said, “I felt and heard something pop in my back. Immediately, I went deaf.”

Dr. Palmer was, understandably, a little confused by Lillard’s story. Why would a “pop” in your back have anything to do with your hearing? There was nothing in traditional medicine to suggest a functional connection between a person’s back and their ears. Maybe it was just a coincidence.

He asked to examine Lillard’s back, and, to his surprise, easily located a strange bump in Lillard’s spine.

D.D.’s son B.J. Palmer later wrote: “The patient was put upon the floor, face down, and a shove-like movement given. The ‘bump’ was reduced by the first three shoves, and in three days hearing was restored. Harvey could hear a watch tick at the average distance you and I can today.”

The restoration of Harvey Lillard’s hearing was clearly amazing, but it posed many questions.

Why would someone’s spine affect their ears? And why would reducing a bump restore a deaf man’s hearing? If a bump in a certain area of the spine could cause deafness, then what could other bumps do, in other areas of the back? Did other people have similar bumps that were affecting their health? What other disorders, conditions, or diseases might these bumps be causing?

Could health problems actually be eased, or even healed, by correcting problems in the spine?

Today, D.D. Palmer’s adjustment of Harvey Lillard’s spine is considered the birth of the chiropractic profession, and the “bump” was the first observed vertebral subluxation.

It's my mission to bring this understanding to as many people as possible. If you know anyone who could benefit from this information, please forward this email along.

LIVE CLEAR,
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