The following story is not unique; it is typical of what can be accomplished when one seeks the underlying cause of illness and corrects it. 

Doctors diagnosed Thomas Jones with everything from walking pneumonia to anxiety to acid reflux, prescribing medications that did nothing to help. Over the next eight months, Mr. Jones said he spent $20,000 going to specialists in attempts to solve the problem. "My family was upset," Jones says. Finally, he met a chiropractor in Virginia who said his ribs had been knocked out of alignment while playing. After a simple procedure, his breathing began to get back to normal.

Jones’ experience is not uncommon. I have consulted with many who have spent thousands of dollars without finding an answer to a problem that has a simple solution. M.D.s are not trained in structural issues, so they look only for internal problems. I am convinced that the leading cause of gall bladder removals in the U.S. is a slipped rib that could be put back into place with one visit to a chiropractor.

Soon after I began to explore structural issues a man in his mid forties came to my office with new-onset asthma. Since it is highly unusual for asthma to show up late in life I asked him if he could think of anything that had happened before the wheezing began. It turned out he had slipped and hit the right side of his chest while falling. Rather that prescribing an asthma inhaler that he would have been on for the rest of his life I sent him to a local chiropractor who cured his asthma in a single visit by realigning his ribs.  I now routinely check for proper rib alignment and make a non-manipulatory correction if it is present.