07/30/2019
With permission from his parents I share the most significant story of my career thus far.
3 year old Lyric fell 4 feet off of a playground structure and hit the left side of his ribcage with his left arm tucked behind his back and then hit his head. He was knocked completely unconscious and his mother picked him up and physically ran to ANMC ER because she was less than a 1/2 mile away. She reports that when he fell she thought he had broken his neck because he had taken four to five shallow inhalations with a stridor sound and then ceased breathing. She also noted that his eyes were moving quickly in all directions as his eyelids fluttered open and closed. During the run to the ER he began to breathe again, and his right arm was spastic, clawing at his mother's body as she ran, while his left arm was flaccid with the rest of his body. At the ER, a CT performed came back negative for fracture and cranial hemorrhage. They were told to "watch and wait" for him to wake up.
When I arrived to visit his family, Lyric had been unconscious for nearly four hours. Two more hours and his state would have been considered a medical coma. He was unresponsive to stimuli, couldn't be awakened and had no voluntary actions. His mother asked me to evaluate and adjust him. I found his first thoracic vertebrae significantly subluxated to the right. I adjusted this while he was prone, while lying on his mother's body. As soon as I adjusted him he took a deep breath and everyone in the room nervously laughed because it was the first deep breath he had taken since he had fallen. His eyes fluttered but he did not awaken.
We turned Lyric over to a face-up position and I examined his cervical spine. His C5 was subluxated severely to the right and his C1 was subluxated severely to the left. I adjusted his C5 and his eyes opened briefly, then closed again. I made the final adjustment to the atlas vertebra and his eyes opened widely, stayed open and he reached for his mother who held him tightly. The gratitude and love in the room was palpable.
After about five minutes, Lyric was answering questions: "Do you want to go camping?" (Nodding head yes) "Do you want ice cream?" (Slight smile, nodding head yes and more response in his eyes). "Lyric, what is your favorite flavor of ice cream?", I asked. "Chocolate!" he replied. I left shortly after with intention to follow up that evening after the family had settled in. His mother Danielle reported that about 10-15 minutes after I left he was a "normal Lyric", bright eyed and functioning and responding and playing normally.
If a specific chiropractic adjustment can wake a child out of an unconscious state, can you imagine what it can do to turn on ALL OF THE HEALING POWERS OF THE BODY? There is no excuse... please, for the ultimate health of your families, bring your children and yourself to a specific chiropractor to get checked for subluxation today!
