Louisville Chiropractor | Dr. Nicolai Hansen
My First Encounter With Chiropractic
I was a Coast Guard search and rescue Coxswain and crewman out of Ocean City Maryland. On weekend in 1978 I called home to check on my parents and assure them that I hadn't drowned yet. My mother told me that she "was becoming a turtle"! What she meant was that her shoulders were drawing up so badly that it was as if she was trying to pull her head in like a turtle pulls its head into its shell. She also had a very difficult time moving her left arm.
She had been to see the family MD who had examined her and done some x-rays. He told her there was nothing wrong and sent her home with some drugs and instructions to return in two weeks. That had been the previous week and she was no better and she felt she was getting worse.
Mom worked as a supermarket checker in the days when the checker picked up the item, read the price and then punched the price into the cash register. She then had to push the item away and take up the next item. Sometimes the customer would put the stuff in the bags for her but a lot of times they didn't. She couldn't take off so she had to work through the pain. The MDs solution would not work because the prescribed drugs made her too "stupid" to handle the cash.
A regular customer at mom's store so what kind of shape she was in and insisted that she go to see her doctor - Joseph Lalli, DC. She told my mom that she was sure Dr. Lalli could help her so mom went to see him. Mom went and within a few days she began to get better. I asked her what Dr. Lalli thought was wrong. Mom said that Dr. Lalli explained that when spinal bones don't move right they put pressure on the nerves causing pain and spasm. When she asked him how it happened he told her he couldn't be sure but sometimes old accidents, poor diet or even stress can twist things up. Eventually the long term pressure on the nerves causes problems like muscle spasm pain and even poor functioning of the internal organs!
I Began to Wonder if Chiropractic Care Could Help Me
Within a month Mom was almost completely back to normal. I was happy but I also began to wonder about myself. I had had a motorcycle accident about 6 months prior to mom's problem. I wasn't in pain but every time I stood for inspection the inspecting officer would complain about how crookedly I stood. I had two weeks leave coming up that I was going to spend back home so I decided to see Dr. Lalli to see if he could straighten me out.
When I met Dr. Lalli I was highly impressed he was easy going, knew what was wrong and located exactly where my nerves were under pressure. Dr. Lalli explained the "gospel" of chiropractic to me; the body heals itself physically, emotionally and eventually spiritually - unless there is some interference. The chiropractor's role is to locate that interference and work to remove it as best as he or she can. I stood much straighter after the first visit. Over the course of the next two weeks I saw Dr. Lalli about a half dozen times. At the end of my two weeks I had almost perfect posture. I was also amazed that I could breath better and felt much stronger - I even felt I could think much more clearly! It had been my plan to stay with the Coast Guard but after my experience with Dr. Lalli I decided to "do what he did".
Since I graduated from National University in 1992 I have had the fortune of meeting a remarkable woman (Janeece) whose support allowed me to follow a "road less travelled" to try and find what what is real about chiropractic. With her help I have looked closely as to what works and how to apply that knowledge. Chiropractic has become more commercial over the years and that has hurt our reputation but the things Dr. Lalli talked about come from a time before all this commercialization. Since "you can't fool all of the people all of the time" it is my belief that many people can see beyond the "sickness management" that passes for health care. Janeece and I have worked to make a chiropractic office that has a traditional philosophy but uses modern methods to practice in an honest and effective manner.
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