
Getting In On Animal Chiropractic – Dr. Bill Ormston
Summary
Chiropractic is important not only to humans but also to animals too. It does not only limit to domestic animals but also includes adjusting animals that are part of the food supply. Being able to perform chiropractic on animals provides a lot of benefits not only to the animal itself but also to the environment.
On this episode, we have Dr. Bill Ormston. He received a BS in Animal Science in 1982 and a veterinary degree in 1982, both from Iowa State University. He became a certified Animal Chiropractor in 1998.
Dr. Bill talks about how he got into Animal Chiropractic and his experiences adjusting animals. He also shares the effects of adjusting animals to the community.
Key Takeaways
- If you know what you’re doing, you will never hurt anybody with an adjustment.
- You can make adjustment as a diagnostic tool.
- If chiropractic alone doesn’t give the results you wanted, then there’s probably something going unless you haven’t adjusted properly but there could something be bigger.
- It doesn’t matter what species you have, human or animal, the principle that chiropractic adjustment will help.
- Most of the chronic diseases we see in the animals are caused by stress responses that don’t go away.
- Performing chiropractic on animals that are part of the food supply can help the environment.
- Adjusted animals perform more vigorously than non-adjusted animals. Same is said for humans.
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Dr. Don MacDonald is the co-creator of the MacDonald Safety Corridor Protocol, co- founder of The Informed Chiropractor, and has been helping chiropractors integrate Polyvagal Theory into practice for more than two decades. He teaches internationally on neurologically focused chiropractic, communication, and nervous system regulation.
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