My clinical experience, along with experience from my forefathers in chiropractic and five family members who preceded me in chiropractic, has led me to corrective programs that are designed to correct problems, not only pain. I may see a patient initially three times, two times, or one time a week for a period of time. Due to American lifestyle and eating habits, we cannot hope to actually correct common problems in so few visits. This may be true in select parts of Russia, Africa, amongst the Amish people, etc. Dr. Markey has an excellent point that patient treatment programs must not be based on standards set by practice builders or anyone else if those standards are based only on increasing income without delivering value to the patient.
Current research shows that histological changes occur immediately on injury to a joint.
These changes create fixations in the joint and are the beginnings of spinal degeneration. Science says so. Dr. Markey might read Immobilization Degeneration and the Fixation Hypothesis of Chiropractic Subluxation, by Charles A. Lantz, Ph.D., D.C., Chiropractic Research Journal, Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1988. He may notice the vast research that tells us that within one day of joint injury there are measurable changes in cartilage cell activity. On the second day biochemical changes of the cartilage are preset.