The modern day school of chiropractic dates back to 1895, when Dr. Daniel Palmer adjusted a man
While the medical community criticized this new healing technique, the people who followed in Dr. Palmer's footsteps found an amazing new way of dealing with illness and disease. Dr. Palmer's theories are still discussed in the chiropractic industry today. Without this man's input into medicine during a time when he was greatly discredited, the millions of people today who enjoy life-changing benefits may never have had this opportunity. There is a school named after Dr. Daniel Palmer as well as over 20 chiropractic schools and thousands of chiropractic students across the country. who had lost his hearing 17 years earlier. The story states that prior to losing his hearing the man had heard something pop in his back. Upon the completion of the adjustment of the man's misaligned vertebrae, the man regained his hearing.