Re: How to find an equine chiropractor.

[Marv Walker <Marv@MarvWalker.com>]

At 12:00 PM 3/22/01 -0500, you wrote:
>marv,
>i love you.  i'm getting closer.  now if i could just get someone to answer
>their phones........


Wow!  I'm plumb et up with all the adoration!

I know EXACTLY what you mean.

You might actually call the folks at

http://www.avcadoctors.com/avcadus.htm

and see if they can help.  I'll bet they're like most web sites and don't
update all that often.

When I first discovered chiro we were lucky enough to have a relocating
vet who wanted to specialize in chiro and acupuncture.  Since she was
new to the state she was almost always available.

Then, in a misguided effort to help her practice along I introduced her to
a wealthy racehorse breeder.  It was all down hill from there.  My limo
doesn't even come close to theirs.  She'd rather be picked up at home,
flown wherever to adjust their horses and enjoying first-class accomodations.
Now she seldom answers her phone as well.

Then I found a chiro/vet who was probably the most skilled diagnostician
I had ever met in my life.  The guy was a miracle worker.  Even though I
should have learned my lesson with the first chiro, I touted this guy far
and wide.  I didn't want him failing to stay in business.  One day he was
available, the next he was in Egypt with a very lucrative position with some
oil sheik (are Egyptians ever sheiks?).  Oh, I know it's presumptious to
think I had anything to do with that but they say history repeats.

In the Atlanta area we have a number of chiros and I can always find one.
So far, I haven't found any I consider to be outstanding.  But, a little chiro
is better than no chiro.

Judging from the response I get off this list, chiro is viewed with
considerable skepticism by many here.  I certainly understand that
because I once felt exactly the same way.  I may have coined the terms
"bonebender" and "chiroquacktor" because I sure used them a lot back
then.

All that changed years ago when a friend of mine had a baby that failed
to thrive.  He cried nearly every waking minute for the first 6 months of
his life.  I'm here to tell you it got on my nerves and *I* didn't have to 
live
with him.  He was really skinny.  Then my dad who had done some
upholstery work for a human chiro and had been forced to be a test
subject for his work, suggested taking the kid to the chiro.

One treatment, yes one, and that kid stopped crying.  He started eating
eagerly and soon he was a happy little porker.

I see it all the time.  Horses, dogs, cats, birds and other animals lack the
wonderful quality of justify-your-beliefs-any-way-you-can skepticism.  A
dog who moments before can barely walk is suddenly running and playing
after a little manipulation.  A horse who is unable to reach the ground to
graze suddenly does so freely after a little manipulation.   I have never
heard an animal say, "Well, I do feel better but..."  You see, an animal is
just too stupid to realize that merely moving a structure into alignment can
make such a difference.

At my clinics when I'm fortunate enough to have a chiro on site, only the
most hardened, unseeing and psychologically belligerent are unable to
see the difference chiro makes in an animal's well being and movement.

Marv "Give a little leg pulling a chance, it might straighten you out." Walker
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