Performance Equine

HUNGRY:
I wanted to learn all I could learn, but there wasn’t much, and - those veterinary anatomy books are like $300 each!! Git outta here!!
Dr. Wiloughby authored a book that talked a lot about animal chiropractic, and I read the whole thing in the aisle at Barnes & Noble! Hoped that one day, I’d get to meet her. A true pioneer. I never did. Big regret.

People think it’s weird when I talk to their horses.
What - am I supposed to just ignore them when they ask me a question??

THE DAWNING
When I was first in practice in Temecula - let’s call it 1987 - a new patient moved her family here from Colorado. She said she was familiar with Applied Kinesiology technique, and I got all excited - “Where did you hear of me?” sure that there’d been an important professional referral.
“I looked in the phone book, and started with ‘A,’” she said.
“Oh,” I said, only happy that somebody had seen my too-expensive ad.
A couple years later, she asked me, “I’m having a guy out to adjust my horse - is that something you’d be interested in seeing?”
Well heck yes it was, and after I’d watched this horseshoer/trainer clod who’d learned how to make a decent manipulation, do his thing on a horse, I said, “Oh, I need to learn how to adjust animals.”
There wasn’t much in writing, but Pinterest had great anatomy charts, and I knew I needed to get my hands on spines and learn what “normal” was before anything else. So that’s where I started.
The horse-y patient mentioned Linda McKeel, mostly because she was friendly and had lots of horses, so I searched out McKeel Ranch, and told her what I was up to. She held horse after horse after horse for me, while I just felt skeletons and muscle structures, and taught myself about healthy horse anatomy. It was glorious.
I remember being very happy, and that I smelled like horses.

Chiropractic owes a tremendous debt of gratitude.
THANK YOU Dr. Wilk!

Dr. Chester Wilk has just checked into hospice. Say a prayer for this chiropractic hero...