Appreciating a step-by-step process – Dr. Joseph Steinhouser, DC

Reading through some of the recent Activator blog postings, I was reminded of how important the step-by-step protocol has been to my daily success in resolving a patient’s condition. Thinking back over the past 35 years, I also recalled how instrumental that procedure was while I was studying to be a chiropractor. The chiropractic college I attended was the first school to teach Activator as part of the curriculum. The confidence of knowing where to start with a patient, where to adjust and not adjust, and when to finish, is not only helpful as a student but is still what I rely on all these years later to help my patients.

When I started utilizing Activator in the school clinic, “critics” of the technique said it was a “cookbook” approach. This comment was supposed to be somehow derogatory, but I never understood what was wrong with a step-by-step procedure. I would always remind the critics that science requires a step-by-step process. Why wouldn’t you want to know what you are doing? Decades have passed, and I’m still using the procedure that today has been enhanced by yet another step-by-step approach – research that proves its effectiveness. So much for the critics!

Dr. Joseph Steinhouser, DC, is a member of the Activator Methods Clinical Advisory Board and has been an instructor for years.