Welcome to my wellness Blog! My goal is to share what I have learned from the past fourteen years of clinical practice as a chiropractor.
People tell me that I have an insatiable desire for learning and growing in my field and I would say that is true. I spend at least ten to fifteen additional hours a week researching and updating my skills for one simple reason. I'm interested in outstanding clinical results for my patients and I enjoy solving difficult cases!
When I started in practice I practiced like many other chiropractors working on people with pain and using adjustments as my primary tool to help patients. As the years progressed I learned that this model worked well for eighty percent of the population but left about twenty percent of patients with little relief. That bothered me a great deal.
I became obsessed with finding a way to help the other twenty percent who were almost always suffering from chronic pain and other conditions like asthma, allergies, digestive, fatigue, etc...
I noted that the difficult patients did not hold adjustments for very long and I thought that if I could just get them to hold they would get well. So I started looking for why they did not hold adjustments. I added rehab and stretching to my procedures specifically to correct posture and my results improved considerably but not everyone!!!
Still obsessed I was not ready to give up. So I ventured into the fields of clinical nutrition and unresolved emotional stress with ever improving clinical outcomes.
To sum up here is what I have learned in fifteen year of clinical practice and research.
Most health problems are caused by several factors and most people including health care practitioners have a one problem one solution mentality, philosophy and approach. That's why all branches of health care have successfully outcome some of the time and failure at others.
Let's use an example from my files with the name changed for privacy.
A 50 year old female is refered to me from her daughter. She suffers from almost daily headaches and weekly incapacitating migraines headaches of approximately twenty years duration. Pt. also has neck tightness and digestive trouble. She has been everywhere, traditional MD, holistic MD, massage, chiropractor's(many), acupuncture, nutritionist, bioidentical hormones, etc... Nothing more than temporary help.
Examination with Bio-response testing shows:
Multiple subluxations(structural problems) cranial,tmj, cervical, thoracic, ribs and cervical disks.
Toxicity: multiple heavy metals located in the brain, environmental toxins, wheat and dairy allergy. There were over twenty toxicants and immune stresses found in total!
Nutritional testing: A shopping bag full of supplements is presented: almost all test poorly and are removed immediately. No vitamin and mineral deficiencies were found.
Care: Due to the long distance traveled the patient was seen once a week. She was adjusted and detoxed one item at a time based on bio-response testing. Wheat and dairy were removed from her diet immediately. There was a gradual improvement in her symptoms over three months and there has been no migraines for two months with only one or two mild headaches. The digestive issues are also resolved.
Cases like these are common in my practice. I am no better than these other practitioners. I just look at things differently because i have a different philosophy. Sometimes I can find something that other practitioners have missed and hit a home run!
My philosophy is that the body is DESIGNED to be self healing. If a person has health problems it is because some thing is interfering with the self healing mechanism. I'm sure there are more but here is a list of the most common health interferences:
1) Structural Problems: Vertebral and meningeal subluxation
2) Unresolved Emotional Stress
3) Chemical Problems: toxins, immune challenge, allergies, etc...
It is my strongly held belief that when the interferences are removed in the correct sequence and with great care and precision self healing is restored and almost anything is possible.
God Bless,
David Shores DC
1524 Encinitas Blvd.
Encinitas, Ca 92024
(760) 753-4300
Disclaimer: This information is for education purposes only. The doctor does not diagnose or treat any medical conditions.
