Chiropractic patients often quit after feeling 70-80% better in a few adjustments, mistaking quick pain relief for actual healing. Jeff Langmaid explains that real biomechanical correction and soft-tissue remodeling take much longer than the initial symptom improvement suggests.
If we get really pragmatic with this, I think it's by expose— I say turning over the rock, so to speak, meaning I think it's a really great idea to set the stage from the beginning with the truth, which is most of us know many patients, not all, many patients will feel tremendously better very quickly. We also know that remodeling, habit change, all of those other items take a heck of a lot longer than it does for the few adjustments for them to feel 70, 80% better. This is the paradox of what we do is that we're able to help people feel better so much quickly, but often Often that is, you know, simply as they say, the chiropractic aspirin. We haven't actually corrected biomechanics. They certainly haven't changed their habits in any meaningful way. And if there's any soft tissue involvement, it hasn't even begun the process of healing, remodeling, whatever it might be.
