I did not wake up one morning and decide I was going to invent a chiropractic technique. The Bonacci Method came about for a much less glamorous reason: I had patients who were not getting better the way I thought they should.
I was seeing severe, chronic and complicated cases. Many of these people had already tried chiropractic, physical therapy, injections, medications or other forms of care. I started paying very close attention to what I was finding on examination and what happened when I changed the way I treated them. I wrote things down. I looked for patterns. I kept asking myself why one approach changed the patient and another did not.
Over time, certain relationships became repeatable. I found myself paying more attention to the interaction between the nervous system, soft tissue and joints instead of treating each one as if it existed in isolation. Eventually, what began as clinical problem-solving became an organized system I could reproduce and teach.
I think that history matters because I never want the technique to become more important than the patient. A technique is a tool. It should help us think more clearly, examine more carefully and make better decisions. It should never become a routine that we impose on every person who walks through the door.
That is still how I practice. I evaluate. I treat. I watch the response. And if the body gives me information that challenges my first idea, I change my thinking.
If you have a complicated problem and feel like everyone has been looking at the same pieces, I would be happy to look at the whole picture with you.
–Marc Bonacci, DC, PMMTP
