A short talk (YouTube video) by Jeff Langmaid explaining how chiropractic care should go beyond mere pain relief to restore movement, proprioception, and un-compensated function. The speaker introduces the 'butterfly test' as an integrative way to demonstrate issues to patients and to guide them toward broader life and movement goals rather than only symptom reduction.
How do you help a patient understand that the care you're delivering goes beyond just the chiropractic aspirin, AKA just pain relief is you bring in tasks like this that enable you to highlight what's going on, show it in an easy to follow, easy to understand manner, and then be able to help that patient ultimately reach their real goals, which quite often is not just getting out of pain, but getting back to and or better than they were before with the life effect of how that pain was impacting them. And that comes down to, as we all know, their ability to move, their ability to know where they are in space, to move without compensation. And ultimately the butterfly test as we see it, taking all things and putting it together.
