Ep 47 - Why Patients Feel More After You Adjust Them

The Cranial Doc | A Chiropractic & Cranial Mastery Show for Pediatric, Family, and Neurologically-based Chiropractors · Oct 12, 2026 · 16m

A patient retraces. The pain shows up in a new spot. What do you say?

A Foundations of Cranial Adjusting Q&A before level one sent me back to D.D. Palmer. It also sent me to Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score.

Here is where I land. The body shows the nervous system's current threshold. The brain decides what becomes pain, where you feel it, and how much. After years of overload, a brain can turn awareness of the body down. Adjust that patient and they may feel more of their life. For better or for worse.

Then I give you the words to use when it happens in your office.

What we…