DK: Beautifully stated. You are an expert on infectious diseases. Chiropractors for years have seen changes take place in patients in places, other than just muscles; in stomachs, in their lungs and even in things like their immune system. What is your opinion on this?

FT: There’s different nerves coming out of the spine. Clearly there are nerves that have as their function movement. There are nerves that have as their function bringing back what we feel. There are also nerves that are responsible for the environment. The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems control the smooth muscles in our body. The involuntary muscles are in our intestines, directing respiratory function, cardiac function, and our heart to beat. If you have some kind of compression that might affect how your heart beats, how you breathe, how your GI tract functions: nausea, diarrhea, constipation.

DK: As chiropractors that’s what we see on a daily basis. Which brings me to the next question. You are in the medical community. What opinions have you heard about chiropractic or what responses have you heard from people in the medical community about you going to a chiropractor?

FT: I believe some people in the medical field may be limited in accepting alternatives, or other ways of seeing medicine that may in fact be complementary.

DK: Sure.

FT: And so the fear of the unknown, the non-controllable, is a symptom of not being open to something we cannot explain or we cannot control.

DK: In the case of chiropractic, like say with your arm, the explanation is pretty simple. So you think one of the roots is it’s just outside the sphere of control of medicine, and that’s where the fear or concern would come from?

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