I've been looking at loads of Xrays and MRI's since I've been here in India, and yesterday I saw an interesting case... actually, I saw about 10 cases yesterday that would qualify as highly unusual, but this one stood out.

I first met Mr. S in 2005 on my first trip to India. He is the best friend of my partner here, so I have spent a lot of time with him in my 3 trips here. Mr. S is the quintessential businessman: a bonafide real estate mogul, builder of highrises, and owner of 3 factories which employ over 3000 people. His cel phone never stops ringing and it is hardly away from his right ear for more than 2 minutes at a time. He is the most serious, business minded, and some might say...humorless... people I have ever met. I called him Mr. Spock once... joke didn't translate too well. Swell guy though.

Mr. S had a stroke 2 years ago from a big clot that got stuck in a cerebral artery on the right side, and this was clearly visible on the MRI of his brain that he got right afterwards. The left-sided paralysis he had is gone, and he has improved very much with chiropractic care. Before I adjusted him this time, I sent him for a follow-up MRI of the brain (costs about 42 USD!) to see if the clot was still there. Thankfully the new films showed it was totally gone, but with some scar tissue left. 

But what struck me was this... his left hemisphere was at least 20% larger than his right.

I checked all the films, old and new, and it was like this on all of them, so it wasn't atrophy from after the stroke. On the radiologist's report, they called it age-related atrophy... he's 60... but it was clearly not from a normal aging process...

These are the questions I had...

The left brain typically controls logical, linear thinking while the right brain handles creative expression. Knowing Mr. S's tendencies for 100% focus on business and finances, I wondered if this was from decades of exercising the left hemisphere and neglect of the emotional side?

Or the other chilling thought was that it was from the constant celphone use? ( I asked, and he always holds it to his right ear. ) If anyone could cook his cortex with a celphone, he'd be a top contender for sure. He'll take a business call even while his guru/living god is talking. For real.

I know this is pure speculation here, but this is what I wrote down on a prescription pad for him before he left.

"Drink lots more panni (water.)

More art, music, dancing and poetry.

Less celphone.

Live long and prosper."

Can't hurt...

Bonafide Chiropractic Miracle

It doesn't get any more amazing than this... I had the honor of treating this girl in the photo. Her name is Kinjal, and she is 18 years old. What's amazing about her is that for 17+ years of her life, she was totally paralyzed: she couldn't speak, turn her head, feed herself or walk. She was sent to Dr. Patel by her guru, Dada Bagwan, about 6 months ago for a
Chiropractic treatment.


Immediately after her first adjustment, she showed amazing improvement, turning her head, speaking for the first time in her life... And Today she walks, speaks, and her smile lights up the room. After I adjusted her today, she walked up and down the office, with her mother on one side, and me on the other, barely holding on to her at all.

This is pretty good stuff, what we do...

Chiropractic in India

The word is definitely getting out... Every day more and more people are showing up at the now famous Re-Life Chiropractic Centre, the first state of the art chiro clinic in all of India. Located on the 7th floor of the Shree Krishna Business Center in an upscale area of Ahmedabad, this clinic is truly a sight to behold. Having only been open for 3 weeks, every day more new patients are showing up-- usually referred by current patients who have been helped tremendously by this "new" treatment. We have 4 zenith hi-lo tables with full drops, 3 spinalators, one automatic flexion-distraction table, and an x-ray machine here, but its not set up yet, so everyone comes in with their films from a nearby imaging center. (I looked at the price list for the images so I don't think there's any rush to get it set up... it costs 175 rupees--about 4 dollars-- for a set of digital xrays, and get this...2200 rupees-- about 50 bucks-- for an MRI! I think I'll have every part of me scanned just for the helluvit just because it such a bargain.)

Dr. Carter and I jumped right in and started seeing patients... close to 30 on our first day in town... and everyone is waggling their heads in satisfaction. We have already seen some bizarre cases that would be very rare to see in the US, and Carter already restored a woman's hearing with a cervical adjustment. Way to go, Chris!

Well, I gotta go, as here come more patients... yes it's Sunday and we're here for the internet, but people are showing up anyway. More later.
dr. nick