Dear Doc
Question: I saw an ad for ABC™ technique, looked up the web
site, and have pretty much read the whole thing. I talked to
Dr Jesse today and he said you had been using the technique
and you were doing well with it. So I thought I'd ask all the
obvious questions.
I
have always been interested in posture correction and making
changes on X-ray. I have been quite interested in Biophysics
but I have found that patients do not follow through with the
appropriate exercise and traction protocols at home, however,
we can change the shape of the cervical curve. But most
patients don't seem to understand that these changes are not
typically achieved in most offices.
With
ABC™ then it appears that posture will change quite
dramatically, and over time x-rays will obviously change also.
Is the technique easy (relatively) to learn and use?
Dr.
Rick: I have been frustrated with trying to get patients do
exercises and philosophically frustrated with whether I should
be trying to force such changes.
ABC™
resolves such concerns. Patient education is needed, but
there is no rigorous prescription of exercises to fight about.
The changes will happen, better than you have ever seen and
with greater comfort. By the way, Jerry Porter was once a CBP™
instructor and had practiced it for many years ... until he
came across Dr. J and
ABC™ and
then got an adjustment a little over 2 years
ago.
It is easy to begin to use almost immediately. My case is
typical in some respects and not in others. I watched the
video, read the texts, visited Jerry Porter for a day and
began using it the next day, with good results. I would
occasionally go down and visit Jerry and learn a bit more at
each visit. Looking back on it, I probably did a lousy job of
it for the first year, although my results seemed pretty good
to me. They are a lot better now. Probably one of the biggest
values in visiting Jerry's office was that I gained much
greater confidence in the power of what we are doing as well
as improving my skills.
On
the other hand, all the information is in the videos and
manuals and had I paid better attention (had I realized how
well this worked) I would have done better without having to
see Dr. Porter.
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Question: Does it involve any type of manual adjusting or
does it use more reflex techniques or both.
It is entirely manual. Treatment and examination is "pure
mechanics", as Dr. Jesse likes to remind us. With time, you will
discover that your ability to observe abnormal mechanics will
have grown incredibly! Much of our chiropractic education in
this area is poor ... at best!
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Question: Do patients like the treatment or does it seem
different, or even weird and can they understand what is
happening.
No, the patients just get adjusted
and like the changes. They are thrilled with the
results, although they sometimes really dislike one or another
of the procedures (as with all chiropractic). The results are unlike any I have ever seen
with any bodywork. Nothing even comes close to this work, in
my opinion and experience as an inquisitive chiropractor of 21
years.
Until you
have observed and experienced the adjustments you will have a
hard time appreciating what occurs. Dr. Jutkowitz
does an excellent job on the introductory tape describing the basics of
ABC™.
You should request a copy if he hasn't already sent one!
If
you take the time to explain what we are doing, which I
believe is essential (and Jesse's intro tape is a very useful
tool for patient education) then patients usually have a
pretty good understanding of what is going on and how this is
totally different from anything else...especially if they have
had a lot of chiropractic care in the past. It is very
"different," but I don't believe anyone has given me the idea
that they thought it was "weird." Some of the public have read
stuff about various cranial techniques, and we do share an
understanding of the importance of the meninges, although our
treatment and evaluation differs markedly from anything else.
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Question: Do you take x-rays, and see changes on follow-ups if
taken.
Dr.
Jutkowitz will tell you that to do the research and discover what
he has discovered could not be done without x-rays. Now that
it has been discovered, x-rays are not necessary.
Personally, I have been working without x-rays and doing great
with
ABC™.
However, I recently had a set taken of me to follow my
unwinding process. In Spokane
(besides my BC practice) and we use x-ray on a very limited
basis, just enough to help ensure that we understand their
mechanical problems correctly. I believe that Dr. Jesse has done
such studies.
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Question: Over time how do chronic recurring problems respond
compared to other diversified techniques?
There is no comparison. The more I do
Advanced BioStructural Correction™
work, the more I realize that almost all body work has been
directed at the secondary effects, the compensations, rather
than to the real mechanical problems that the body cannot
self-correct. Correct those primary problems and the
compensations will resolve ... no matter how chronic they are
(provided they haven't had spinal surgery). I love doing
ABC™!
It
resolves all the philosophical problems whether you have
adopted a straight or mixer point-of-view and it works
consistently and predictably as Jesse says it will.
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Question: If you can help me out I would be appreciative. I
have found that a lot of these techniques tend to either not
work very well, or are to far out in left field to be
respectable or believable to most people, how does this stack
up?
When I got the intro tape from Dr. J, I was extremely
skeptical about the worthiness of this work. I happened to
have a day off and decided to visit Jerry Porter and see for
myself, just to give it a fair look. I watched him adjust all
day and received two adjustments. I was impressed with what I
saw, but many times more so with what I experienced. In my
opinion, nothing stacks up to this that I have ever seen.
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Thanks for your help
David
David, if you really want to make a difference and really
enjoy the process, you won't be disappointed if you take the
time to learn
ABC™,
I assure you!
Rick
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