Docs Story

Over Christmas I ran into a friend from college.  He was surprised to hear that I was a chiropractor and not a medical doctor or psychiatrist.  That was my goal back then.  We had attended Ohio University, a beautiful college located in foot hills of the Appalachian Mountains.  We walked up and down hills covering miles each day getting to and from our classes.  We always had our books in a backpack swung across one shoulder.

Walking to my car, I felt my right hip and low back lock up.  One step was all it took.  Every step felt worse until I made it to my car and made it home.  I remember sitting on our linoleum floor in our small house, leaning against the wall, hoping that it would shift or pop back in place and feel better.   I didn’t know anything about chiropractic then, but somehow, deep in my brain, I knew what needed to happen.  It didn’t, I walked around crooked and in pain for three weeks.

I graduated from college with two bachelors, one in biology/pre-med and one in psychology.  I had studied the brain, anatomy, physiology, psychology, the nervous system and how the brain controls and effects the body.  I was planning on going to medical school and on to become a Psychiatrist.  Someone mentioned a new idea (new to me anyway).  An idea that linked both of the sciences I had studied.  They told me about Chiropractic. Chiropractic opens the connections from the brain (Psychology) to the body (Pre-Med) so that the body could take care of itself.

One of the major truths that I learned from my studies in pre-medicine is that doctors do not heal the body, medicine does not heal the body, surgery does not heal the body.   The only thing that heals the body is the life force already inside the body.

Surgery can cut our cancer and medicine can stop its spread.  Surgery can put a broken bone back together and pain killers can stop the pain.  Only time and the power within the body can actually do the healing.  The power within the body travels from the brain, through the spinal cord, to the nerves and to all of the parts of the body.    Chiropractic care just opens the channels for all of this to take place.  It just made sense!

I knew, deep in my brain, that my low back and hip needed to shift into place to relieve the pain.  Other people just know, deep inside, that their spines have to be in place for their bodies to work right. You know it to.

Patrick Lowe is a Doctor of Chiropractic in Louisville, Kentucky.  He established Lowe Chiropractic and Wellness in 1998.  His office serves the people of Louisville and Eastern Jefferson County.