subject: History Of Chiropractic Treatment [print this page] In Davenport, lowa Daniel David Palmer in 1895 during his work founded that manual mind games of vertebrae is a cure of disease which he named chiropractic. Basically he was a over unity magnetic healer. Its history tells that a worker of a building having reduced hearing problem located Palmer. Osteopathy is the predecessor of chiropractic treatment, as osteopathy is a technique which are the body able to an extent that it starts healing itself. In the very beginning Palmer kept it as a secret but afterwards he gave this knowledge to some of his students. And his son named Bartlett Joshua Palmer was also from his students and he decided to the strategy of chiropractic treatment as he found this way of treatment more beneficial. Thus, he introduced this method in 1906 in his fathers school named Palmer School. While Palmer start teaching this method in 1898.
The belief of chiropractors when the flow of nervous energy is upset, it causes diseases. There is lot of controversies in chiropractic, as Daniel David Palmer andBartlett Joshua Palmer were against using instruments in chiropractic and they are known as straight while others introduced the use of instruments for this treatment and they are called mixers.
Bartlett Joshua Palmer introduced new course and made X-rays necessary for the analysis of disease in 1910, which caused a significant increase in the number of faculty and students in the Palmer School. According to Bartlett Joshua Palmer until 1924 there were only 3, 000 chiropractors who have been straightout of 25, 000 chiropractic professionals of You. S. In the same year Bartlett Joshua invented a temperature-sensing device named neurocalometer and it produced a high controversy among his fellows. This technique became largest alternative of healing profession.
Great opposition from organized medicine was faced by this method. In first stages most of the chiropractors worked without license and as a result they were persecuted and some of them were also jailed. Bartlett defended against it and he said that chiropractic is much more unique of medicine field, as they are concerned with analysis instead of diagnosis, adjustment instead of treating the illness. chiropractic technique is just as physiotherapy. And the opposition between the chiropractors and the doctors of medicine prolonged over many, many years. In 1966 it was labeled as unscientific cult and it was called unethical for the doctors of medicine to work with unscientific practitioners until 1980. In 1935 the research on chiropractic ideas were started at the Palmer College of chiropractic in Davenport, lowa.
His College was divided into two parts; in one part medicine was taught when it's in other part chiropractic was taught. In its area of medicine before treating patient his tests and analysis was done. While in the chiropractic portion physical treatment, adjustments and therapies for the diagnosed conditions of the patient are done.
In 1916 the research on chiropractic ideas stopped with the death of Bartlett Joshua Palmer, and it was again continued in 1970s with modern standards.
