So what Chiropractic does, is that it simply “takes the handcuffs off Nature”, as it were. By finding the particular vertebra that had shifted and restoring it to its natural position, the adjustment thus releases the natural flow of nerve impulse. When the maze of nerves, or Nature’s communication system, supplies the body with the energy it needs for well being, you have health.

B. J. Palmer

Bill Decken, DC, DPhCS

CHIROPRACTIC AS CRAFTSMANSHIPBill Decken, DC, DPhCSFamily Straight Chiropractic(864) 574-8047

You may be wondering why I am writing about craftsmanship. Chiropractic is a philosophy, a science and an art. Chiropractic is a profession; woodworking and knitting

involve craftsmanship, right? So why craftsmanship?

I recently read Shop Class as Soul Craft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work, by Matthew B. Crawford, and it caused me to reflect on chiropractic and chiropractors. It’s a good read and I recommend it. Crawford is a philosopher and mechanic. He has a PhD in political philosophy from the University of Chicago and served as a postdoctoral fellow on its Committee on Social Thought. He is currently a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia, and he owns and operates Shockoe Moto, a motorcycle repair shop in Richmond, VA.

I really enjoyed shop classes in high school; they balanced all the academic work I was doing and they were fun. However, Crawford reports that high school shop classes began to become a thing of the past in the 1990s as educators prepared students to become “knowledge workers.” This line of thinking runs rampant in the chiropractic profession. The curriculum in our colleges has its strengths as well as weaknesses, and is frequently sold as “there is nothing wrong with knowledge.” Naturally, we have our national board exams to test us on that knowledge. The question is, does the knowledge obtained make us better chiropractors? Has that outcome ever been

measured? To me, the market place is a good measure.

Crawford then goes on to state, “I often find manual work more engaging intellectually.” Understanding this is in fact the motivation for his writing the book.

There are some people, in what the United States Department of Education refers to as a chiropractic cartel, that would like to create tiers in the chiropractic profession. The chiropractor focused on the detection and correction of vertebral subluxation would in this scenario be considered a

News l e t t e r a n d I n f o r m a t i o n Re s o u r c e o f t h e Pa l m e t to S ta te C h i r o p r a c t i c A s s o c i a t i o n

Palmetto State Chiropractic Association

OFFICERS:President:William M. Decken, DC, LCP, FCSC, DPhCSSpartanburg, SC

Vice President:Michael Geran, DCTravelers Rest, SC

Secretary:Shelly Jones, DCColumbia, SC

Treasurer:Terry J. Van Dervort, DC, ACP, FCSCFort Mill, SC

DIRECTORS:Felicia Stewart, DC, ACP, FCSC, DPhCSRock Hill, SC

Craig Gagnon, DCAbbeville, SC

David Knecht, DCGreenwood, SC

Chairman:George A. Auger, DC, FCSCGreenville, SC

Executive Director:Dwayne A. Hoskins, DCBoiling Springs, SC

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“It is our premise that chiropractic is an

intellectual field of study, a science founded on

tone, based on a vitalistic philosophy of life and

expressed through art.”

tone /ton/ - 1. general character; attitude 2. giving greater strength 3. harmonize

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You need to be realistic.What are the odds of a person show-ing up at the right time with cash in hand to buy the company for a fair price? For thousands of small busi-ness owners each year, no one steps forward. Perhaps the business is too specialized or is tied too closely to the owner’s unique personality and skills. Or maybe possible buyers equate re-tirement sale with a distress sale and make only low-ball offers. Whatever the reason, many owners find that their company has suddenly become a white elephant that nobody wants.

Select and develop a successor.That’s why it’s so important to prime a replacement—someone who will buy

your company when you’re ready to retire. Maybe this is a current co-own-er (but be careful if he or she is about the same age as you, and planning to retire around the same time.) Or it could be your son or daughter who is active in the business, or a younger key employee.

Business owners who successfully groom their own replacements leave nothing to chance. They realize that there is no room for error at the point of retirement.

Here are some steps you should take:• Be cautious. Make sure your heir

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• Set up a probation period so you can terminate the relation-ship if you find that this person will not work out. During that period, keep everything informal, strictly verbal. Even when you go to a formal agreement, make sure it contains a termination provision.

• Offer incentives to ensure that your replacement stays until the baton is passed. An ambi-tious successor needs and deserves gradually increasing authority and benefits. Options include deferred compensation or the opportunity to acquire partial ownership prior to your retirement. This provides both parties with something to win by sticking to the agreement, and something to lose if it falls apart.

• Create a buy-sell agreement. With the help of your attorney, lock in who does and gets what, spelling out all details and caveats, includ-ing how to establish the final valu-ation of the business. This formal

agreement protects everybody.• Build in a funding mechanism.

This is crucial. No matter how good the terms of the buy/sell agreement, it will be worthless if the money is not there when needed to carry out the plan. Under one option, the suc-cessor may be able to purchase the company from ongoing profits. Oth-er options include setting up a sink-ing fund or allowing the successor to simply borrow the money. These options may work but they leave much to chance. Instead, consider a funding vehicle that protects your family in the event of your disability or premature death, such as life and disability income insurance.

• Have a Plan B. As a business own-er, you know that very few things go exactly as planned. What if your business hits tough times or your successor dies, becomes disabled, or leaves because of a personality conflict? Or what if there simply is no heir apparent waiting in the wings? Sometimes, it is simply best to dismantle the business.

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PAGE ME WHEN A PATIENT SHOWS UPArmand Rossi, DCDean of Clinical SciencesSherman College of Chiropracticarossi@sherman.edu

Recently I had a discussion with a chiropractor whose mother is a chiropractic assistant for another D.C. The mother is very frustrated because the person she works for seems to know less about chiropractic than she does. This doctor, it seems, does not allow the assistant to check on patients who miss appointments, do recalls, or pro-mote referrals. He frequently tells his staff, “Page me if a patient shows up.” Then he leaves the office to do God only knows what. He complains about the sad state of chiropractic and how he really needs to involve himself in other ways to make money.

It’s amazing how hard we work toward failure. The only thing this doc-tor needed to do was relax and let his assistant do her job like she wanted to

do. But he keeps on insisting on work-ing in his non-productive way. When we feel unclean, we will actively try to sabotage our own success. We are ba-sically good people. If we believe that we are not the best at what we do, then we put up barriers to our service.

If we think that the adjustment is not powerful, then we will look for other ways to justify our fees. That is what leads us to adding modalities to our care. If we think that the time we spend does not justify the fee, then we do things to add more time, or we lower our fees. When our self-esteem is so low that we sabotage our own practice, then we truly are living in fear. Imagine feeling so poorly about yourself and your abilities that you cannot even expect chiropractic to help anyone. So rather than admit that the problem is your own self-es-teem, you downgrade your own profession.

Many with lower self-esteem cannot confront their own issues. For years men have based their self-esteem on their ability at work. Women have generally based it on their appear-ance. Actually, self-esteem comes from an inner sense of worth, not based on any outside-in mechanism.

Acceptance of the real problem leads to fear of total failure. The fear is generally based in rejection. The irony is that acceptance of the problem and confrontation of the problem is truly the way to change your life around. Why would we fear rejection if we really like ourselves independent of outside belief?

Accept responsibility that you are in control over your own environment. Mistakes are allowable for a person who really knows who they are. These are merely lessons to be learned. The person who places himself in a position never to make a mistake is the unfortunate soul who becomes tormented by their own inadequacies and fears. Forgive yourself and get on with your life. Like yourself no matter what. Notice I said to “like” yourself no matter what. People have an easy time saying that they “love” themselves. But it is difficult for some people to truly “like” themselves.

The bottom line is that we are here to learn and grow. If God has allowed our thoughts to grow and manifest in this universe, why should we deny our destiny of growth and manifestation? Remember, “God doesn’t make junk.”

technician, but this is not the truth. The chiropractor with this in her/his scope is aware that chiropractic is a philosophy, science and art. It is an intellectual field. Make sure you endeavor to gain knowledge in these three areas and support organizations like the Palmetto State Chiropractic Association (PSCA), International Federation of Chiropractors and Organizations (IFCO) and the Foundation for Vertebral Subluxation (FVS) that represent it.

Craftsmanship is the desire to do something well, for its own sake. Chiropractic education should place a strong emphasis on the detection and correction of vertebral subluxation and feed this desire in students.

The economy of Chiropractic education is to be able to learn new things, celebrating the potential to be primary care physicians, rather than the achievement of craftsmanship. Crawford sees the worker in the cutting-edge workplace as having to act like an “intrapreneur,” that is, to be actively involved in the continuous redefinition of his own job. Have you gotten the sense that this is what has been going on in Chiropractic? Have you ever heard of a profession having an identity crisis? It’s usually people.

The PSCA does not believe the craftsmanship of chiropractic is something to be rooted out of our profession. It is our premise that chiropractic is an intellectual field of study, a science founded on tone, based on a vitalistic philosophy of life and expressed through art. You are the agents of change; you are the ones that can create the culture change in healing and life.

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The master maker of the human body did not create you and

then run off and leave you masterless. He stayed on the job as innate, as the fellow within, as nerve transmission controlling every function of life, as spirit from above-down, inside-out, expressing, creating, exploring, directing you in every field and phase of experience so that your home is truly the world and the world is your home.

B. J. Palmer

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR….Last year I was motivated to get my business arrangements in order. You know, update my will, get powers of attorneys, and a trust in order, etc. I decided it was time to purchase disability income insurance. I nearly needed to use that insurance when my jaw hit the floor after I was quoted a price. To my surprise, it seems that chiropractors are an expensive group to insure because we have a lot of disability claims. What? How can that be? Aren’t we the bunch that should be just the opposite?

If we are living the lifestyle we preach and following the recommendations we are making for patients, then why are we having more injuries or disabilities? Personally, I’d like to believe that knowledge provides exemption, but that’s not true. I have some habits to improve and some

pounds to shed. I see my chiropractor nearly every week, buuuuuutttttt I don’t always eat the cleanest or work out or follow some of the other principles that support my spine and nervous system. Plus, it really made me think about the picture of health that I portray versus the talk I speak. Am I walking the walk?

That’s how Page 4 was born. We, as Chiropractors, should enjoy and benefit most from the chiropractic lifestyle we preach. Page 4 is a way to help motivate, develop new habits, improve our health, and inspire our patients and practice members who see us make the effort. Please share your suggestions and recommendations for more ways to help improve our own health and wellness so we can continue to enjoy a healthy lifetime in practice and in leisure. Contact me at doc@drshellyjones.com with your suggestions.

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