I found mine through a friend who highly recommended him. Maybe you should start asking around.

I met my chiropractor in the store I was managing at the time. He came in as a customer, watched me struggling to get around. I told him what my doctor had told me, that I was a prime candidate for knee replacement, old (44), fat and on my feet all day. I told him I was trying to get on the waiting list for the doctor my insurance would cover. He nodded and continued shopping. As he was leaving he touched the back of my neck and said he did not think my problem was in my knees, it was in my neck and he could fix me if I was interested. A few weeks later I had an accident which brought on excruciating pain. I went to see him and he got me walking in one treatment. It took much longer to ease the pain, but I was pretty much normal until a car wreck made things worse than ever. He hasn't been able to help me this time, but neither has anyone else.
When people wonder where I found my chiropractor, I tell them at the Dollar General Store.

Yeah, the chiropractors seemed to have lost touch with chiropracitc. Most of them in it for the money now. Sad, so sad.

The best advise I can give you is ask around. I go through this every Fall when people head south for the winter. And every Spring I hear the horror stories about all the rip off artists and guys that just don't know what they're doing.

So ask around. Most of the guys that use a Thompson table are pretty good. You should also find someone who knows about intersegmental traction. For the most part the old lumbar roll makes a slipped disc worse, you'll have to go with traction on that. Sciatica (pain down the legs) indicates a slipped disc.

I've got a couple of friends in the Scottsdale area. But I dont know how they run things anymore. Their names are: Dr. Daniel Judge and Dr. Edward Judge. I went to school with both of them. We all used to live together at Palmer. They moved out of Michigan 20 some years ago so I haven't seen either one of them since.

Good luck and if you find a good one let the rest of us know.

Thanks.... Doc Sutter

Shauna

I found a chiropracter who practices the ancient Chinese system of bone setting. This system was developed by secret martial arts schools thousands of years ago. These martial arts shools evolved their own systems of healing using meditation techniques, acupuncture, herbs and bone-setting. Often a student would become seriously wounded during practice of various techniques and so they evolved their own methods and herbal liniments that were unique to the school. Each school jealously guarded their methods of healing.

This acupuncturist and bone setter teaches martial arts and yearly brings a group of his students from the States to Thailand for further instruction. He meets his teacher in Thailand who flies in from China to amplify the instruction method. He is a complete healer in that he teaches and practices his methodology and was trained in a classical shool.

I like him because he a fantastic healer and is the only person to address my severe neck issues. I have been to at least over 20 different chiropracters in my life and he is the only one who was able to adjust the atlas which lies at the top of the neck and base of the skull. Once the atlas was properly aligned my need for a chiropracter practically all but disappeared. This is something that all the other chiropracters were not able to address which is a shame (at least in my case).

The clinic is called Four Winds Clinic in Tucson and not too far from Mesa. I have been in the clinic when a patient flew in from San Francisico for a treatment. The bone setter is Vince Black but he may be retiring soon (unfortunately). Treatment begins with cranial sacral massage which is brilliant because it sets up the body to be in the correct state to receive the bone setting.

Eventually Vince will be succeeded by John who himself had many back operations and could barely walk prior to meeting up with Vince. After he was healed by Vince, John decided to become a bone setter himself! Thankfully John is as talented as Vince and will be running the clinic. So in the classic manner the healing arts lineage continues and the transmission of energy is passed on to the next bone setter.

I believe that addressing the atlas is the key to longterm structural alignment and strength in the body and that should be the approach one takes when seeing a chiropractor. In my case it was the answer to my problems and has made an enormous difference.