CASE HISTORY # 14

NOTE: This is from Dr. Bruce Ruderman and illustrates that ABC™ does what other techniques only talk about doing and other methods just wish they could promise. 

I have been getting adjusted with ABC™ for about 2 ½ years on a somewhat regular but not frequent basis. Perhaps averaging once every 3 weeks or so.

My initial encounter with Jesse was mind boggling to me. I went to see him on a lark really, because I was not in practice and didn’t need to learn a new technique. I was not in practice because I was disabled for seven years, unable to use either hand for anything meaningful – not even to sign my name. After 15 years in practice, 3 offices seeing moderate volume, I developed carpal tunnel syndrome along with thoracic outlet and multiple herniated cervical discs from kick boxing. 

My main office was in Grand Central station in Manhattan and when it developed I went to see the best hand surgeons in the best hospitals, the best chiropractors, with and without machines, acupuncturists… everything you can think of and more, all to no avail. The Median nerve was at “0” function on needle EMG bilaterally and I was unable to open or close my hands.

I received Jesse’s postcard with the before and after pictures after having just seen an old patient in the street who looked like one of the photos. I called to see if Jesse could help him. Jesse’s response was that I should come up to see him; he would fix me and I could go back to practice. It was the most ridiculous thing I had ever heard. So I just had to do it. About a month went by and I made my way up to Fairfield, Connecticut.

Jesse welcomed me in to his living room, explained about the “bone out of place in a direction the body cannot self-correct because there is no muscle pulling in the direction needed… and the rest.”  It made sense but I was not prepared for it to work in application, as I had heard many things that seemed to make sense in Chiropractic and out in other disciplines of structural healthcare and even various forms of energy work, mysticism, etc. (I was in New York.) 

Dr. J did a brief exam and then started. The first thing he did was an anterior meningeal release fully and completely. To say it rocked my world is an understatement. I stood up a bit shaken and soon realized that I had full control of my hands for the first time in 7 years! This Could Not Be! Yet there I stood opening and squeezing both hands repeatedly as if I had just gotten a new toy.

To say I was intrigued is an understatement. Jesse finished the protocol and I felt at ease with my body for the first time in memory. I bought the ABC™ Home Seminar Program right then and there and took it home with me. I devoured the materials repeatedly and decided that I was going to perfect the use of the Advanced BioStructural Correction™ and open up a practice in my home town. Without a patient base and nobody to practice on, it took me a long time to feel ready (although Jesse said I was ready long before I thought so).

As I said, I have been under care for 2½ years (though on a reduced schedule since Dr. J is an hour plus away) and now realize that my first encounter with ABC™ was just the beginning. My unwindings forward had become more pronounced and uncomfortable – and the results increasingly astounding. 

For example: Last week I was having an arthritic-like pain in my right wrist. Very sharp, aching, tender to touch, couldn’t lift my coffee mug without shooting pain. It spread to my elbow and lasted about five days. I woke up the next morning and it was all gone. I thought about it for a moment and then laughed to myself thinking sarcastically, “I wonder what great result I will get from that unwind?”  I went to brush my teeth and noticed in the mirror that my right anterior deltoid (shoulder) looked very much like my left one. A usually normal finding except for the fact that when I was 18 years old, I injured my glenohumeral joint (shoulder joint) playing football and have, oops, had not been able to properly use the joint or the muscle in 32 years! The muscle had been markedly atrophied and had minimal strength. I have full use right now, with full strength and full ROM (range of motion) without even needing exercise to build it back up! 

There are so many more stories about myself, patients, and family members recovering from things that were permanent according to everyone (but Jesse with his Advanced BioStructural Correction™) that are just outrageous and even less believable than what happened to me here.

To me the bottom line is this. ABC™ works when properly applied. I have often, in my own office, by my own hands, seen results that I would have sworn would be impossible to happen – not unlikely, impossible period end of discussion. But I saw it, felt it, did it. Now, I don’t know where the end zone for this ABC™ is, but I am going to keep pushing the envelope (Dr. J says I am just entering the envelope). I just took on a patient with 5 years of unrelenting trigeminal neuralgia. She has already had various chiropractic techniques, physical therapy and all the medical modalities, including brain surgery and botox injections. After 2 weeks of ABC™, initial results are promising – no major “shocks” in her face after second treatment (first time in five years) and full cervical ROM that had been very restricted.   Eight month follow-up, she is asymptomatic for periods of unwinding backward of up to 10 days until her body changes directions and goes forward again. Then she gets what she calls “ghosts” of her former symptoms and other symptoms from other injuries as they unwind.

My advice is to just follow the ABC™ protocol to the letter.  People tell me about ABC™ not working like Jesse says but go watch them practicing and you find they are not doing what Dr. J said to do but some hash of their own. Listen to, watch and read and reread the materials, then read them again. Keep your MR angles perfect. Keep your anteriors gentle. Learn to be a first class observer. Pick up on the brightness of patients’ eyes, their rib movements when breathing, their demeanor, etc. Recheck anything you suspect may not be right and correct it.

We have a better mousetrap. If we could all do it as well as Jesse (and we can!), the world will beat a path to our doors.

Dr. Bruce Ruderman

Follow up from Dr. Ruderman about three months later:

A few months ago, I wrote the group about my personal experiences with ABC™ in “fixing” my disability and releasing an atrophied frozen shoulder of 32 years. Well my mind is now officially blown.

At age 26 as a 6th quarter student at Life Chiropractic College, I developed asthma literally overnight that was so severe that I spent 2 days in the hospital before I was able to breathe on my own again. That is, with a host of medications ranging from theopheline, inhaled steroids and long and quick acting bronco dilators, I could breathe on my own – all taken on a daily basis for 24 years. In all that time, I have never been able to go more than 48 hours without medicating and have had numerous allergic reactions over the years to my pets that landed me in the ER on nebulizers and weeks of prednisone.

Three weeks ago, after Dr. J treated me and casually mentioned that my midthoracic region had begun to let go and I would be able to breathe again. (I thought, he just casually mentioned it but you have to pay careful attention to what he says because what ABC™ does is so predictable that he can tell what is happening and it is commonplace to him though it is often an astonishing and very important observation as to what is occurring with the patient about whom he is speaking.)

Shortly after that treatment I began to experience flu like symptoms for no apparent reason. After a few days, I recognized the feeling as an overdose of Advair (the main asthma medication I was taking) which has happened before. However, since the last episode, I had cut my dose in half and it was so low I should not have been overdosing.

By the third morning I decided to stop the Advair and prepare to use my nebulizer to compensate, if necessary. One day went by – feeling a bit better – two days better yet and no desperate need for the rescue inhaler – third day feeling great no inhaler, no nebulizer, just normal breathing. It is now over two weeks and I have full lung capacity with normal breathing on any normal day-to-day activity! I am almost ready to try inhaler-free exercise. Remember, in 24 years I have not been able to go 48 hours without a puff!

Oh, and as a fringe benefit, I can pet my cat again without breaking out in hives.

I then made a connection that I had considered before, but was never willing to believe because it would rock the foundation of my ‘Chiropractic is good no matter what’ belief system. About 6-8 weeks before I “developed” asthma, I had a very hard and painful P-A thoracic adjustment (someone pushed forward on his back very hard while he was laying face down) by an upper quarter student who needed to have one more patient treated to graduate. He was extremely large and laid into my T4-6 area with a heavy thrust and much torque. The adjustment hurt very much and sent me into spasm for months. In fact, I would experience the pain and spasm on a more than occasional basis for over ten years. It was shortly after that episode that I developed the asthma.

I made the connection between the two events, but dismissed it out of the fear that it might be true. It was something I simply did not want to acknowledge.

All I can say is that after only 2½ years intermittently done ABC™ care my life has turned around completely. I went from living in constant pain with disability, being heavily medicated, depressed and miserable most of the time, to medication free, enjoying my family, back in practice after 7 years, and helping people like I always wished I could.

Thanks Jesse. Everyone doing any type of bodywork should be doing Advanced BioStructural Correction™ because ABC™ consistently and predictably gets the results everyone else (every other method) talks about being able to get but never consistently or predictably does get on everyone because it is based on the most basic principles and contains the basis for why bodywork treatments work when they do and do not when they do not.

Dr. Bruce Ruderman