Change Takes Time

This happens all the time in my office.
0:022 secondsI’ll have a patient come in, say a new patient, and we’ll do an evaluation, maybe take some X-rays, and we’ll set them up on a plan, a series of treatment, and then I’ll work on them.
0:1212 secondsAnd when they come back, they’ll they’ll say something like, “This still hurts,” or “That still hurts.” Almost like
0:1919 secondsthey’re they’re evaluating the effectiveness of the treatment after one visit. And I explain to them this takes
0:2828 secondsrepetition and time to heal. It’s taken time to get that way and it takes time to come out. Just like going to the gym,
0:3636 secondsif you were out of shape and deconditioned, you wouldn’t go to the gym one time and evaluate the effectiveness. You’d probably go about a hundred times before you’d really see
0:4545 secondssome change. So with chiropractic, it’s similar, okay? It requires repetition and time for the body to heal. So we don’t want to judge from visit to visit.
0:5454 secondsWe want a series of treatment and then we can evaluate the effectiveness of the treatment.