Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: BJ Palmer, Chips from Sweet Home, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, Nellie Revell, Palmer School of Chiropractic, Palmergram, PSC, Todd Waters, vaudeville
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” - SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
As a non-DC, but avid DC-historian, I can speak with some authority when I say chiropractors have never had an easy time selling what they do to the public. Although chiropractic is beneficial to the health of man, it is difficult to quickly explain to the layperson what it is — and on the flip side, what it isn’t. Chiropractic concepts are further complicated when potential patients must “unlearn” what hearsay has taught them.
From its beginning, the chiropractic profession has been smeared by other practitioners of health care, driven by competition and misunderstanding.
However, there was a period in chiropractic’s early life where the profession was under attack by clowns… Literally.
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Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, Chiropractic Philosophy, communication, Remembering Reggie Collection | Tags: Chips from Sweet Home, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, chiropractic lay lecture, old chiropractic recording, Reggie Gold, Todd Waters
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” - SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
Reggie Gold one of Chiropractic’s last living legends and master of communication passed away March 24 2012. I had little knowledge of Reggie until I heard his interviews here on Spinalcolumnradio.
As a Picker of collectibles, one of my specialties is record LP’s. The more unusual the subject matter on the record, the more interesting it becomes to me. I am especially intrigued with spoken word records when an author reads his work, or a pilot instructs how to fly a plane, …or even when — as you’ll soon find out — a master at communicating the chiropractic message demonstrates his art in front of a live audience. (more…)
Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: A Day and Night With the Spirits, Chips from Sweet Home, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, DD Palmer, JH Mott, Old Dad Chiro, Todd Waters
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” - SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
Why was DD Palmer — the founder of chiropractic — writing about ghosts??? And why can we not find these writings today?
In Old Dad Chiro, Palmer’s biographer, Vern Gielow tells us that the Aledo, Illinois Public Library held only the cover to his A Day and Night With the Spirits. Published in 1880, this text revealed the profitable hoax that a JH Mott played on people wishing to reconnect with their deceased loved ones. This 40-page booklet would have been a very limited run and most likely thrown out with yesterday’s news after a single reading — which accounts for why it is so scarce today.
Actual ad for Spirits Book. This ad — aside from Palmer’s biography — is the only physical proof we have now that his Spirit Book ever existed.
I set out on a hunt to find a copy of it and to find out why DD was writing about ghosts. (more…)
Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: antique chiropractic adjusting table, Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, Douglas Moody DC, Percuss-O-Meter, Todd Waters
Antique Collector, Todd Waters, is “The Chiro-Picker”
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” - SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
Before I became interested in collecting chiropractic antiques, I frequented garage sales and estate sales picking up anything that caught my eye — never really giving the process much thought. Now, I know that BJ Palmer would have said that Innate was telling me what items to choose and which to pass by.
On my latest venture, Innate told me to “keep looking… there is more to be found… keep looking.”
It was an estate sale, and I went straight for the basement.
I like basements because they contain a grab bag of unusual odds and ends that have been tucked away for years. The ironic thing is that this basement was practically in my own backyard, just minutes from my home.
And there it was, right before me… (more…)
Filed under: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history | Tags: Chiro-Picker, chiropractic history, Davenport Iowa, LCW, League of Chiropractic Women, Mabel Palmer, Palmer School of Chiropractic, Patty Ribley DC, PSC, Quota Club International, Todd Waters
Antique Collector, Todd Waters, is “The Chiro-Picker”
by Todd Waters, aka “The Chiro-Picker” - SpinalColumnRadio featured blogger
Mabel Palmer. She’s known as “The First Lady of Chiropractic,” but do we really know that much about her???
Yes, she was wife to BJ Palmer, the developer of chiropractic.- Yes, she wrote Green book Volume 9 – Anatomy and taught the course at the Palmer School of Chiropractic (PSC).
- And yes, some of us know she wrote Stepping Stones a book of her world travels with BJ and their son David.
