Welcome to a Revolution in Healing: Dr. Caleb Slater's Breakthrough Approach
Are you tired of settling for symptom management instead of genuine cure? Meet Dr. Caleb Slater, a maverick in the medical field, with a groundbreaking approach to treating patients, targeting conditions from common aches to complex syndromes.
In his new book, Dr. Slater peels back the layers of conventional medicine, challenging the status quo and advocating for a novel perspective on the human body and its capacity for healing. With clear, relatable language and a dash of humor, he presents a fascinating collection of real-life cases, shedding light on the many failings of our current healthcare system and providing hope for those feeling lost within it.
We've all heard it before - 'There has to be a better way.' Dr. Slater goes beyond this statement, presenting an approach that is not just better, but transformative.
His book takes you on a journey, tackling a diverse range of health issues from Crohn's Disease, Asthma, Menstrual Cramps, Sciatica, Raynaud's Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, to Brain Fog, TMJ, and Bell's Palsy, and many more. Dr. Slater illuminates a path towards more effective, patient-centric treatment, forever altering the way you view medicine and health.
Welcome to a Revolution in Healing: Dr. Caleb Slater's Breakthrough Approach
Are you tired of settling for symptom management instead of genuine cure? Meet Dr. Caleb Slater, a maverick in the medical field, with a groundbreaking approach to treating patients, targeting conditions from common aches to complex syndromes.
In his new book, Dr. Slater peels back the layers of conventional medicine, challenging the status quo and advocating for a novel perspective on the human body and its capacity for healing. With clear, relatable language and a dash of humor, he presents a fascinating collection of real-life cases, shedding light on the many failings of our current healthcare system and providing hope for those feeling lost within it.
We've all heard it before - 'There has to be a better way.' Dr. Slater goes beyond this statement, presenting an approach that is not just better, but transformative.
His book takes you on a journey, tackling a diverse range of health issues from Crohn's Disease, Asthma, Menstrual Cramps, Sciatica, Raynaud's Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, to Brain Fog, TMJ, and Bell's Palsy, and many more. Dr. Slater illuminates a path towards more effective, patient-centric treatment, forever altering the way you view medicine and health.
We can agree that the human body is a wonderment. Something complicated, difficult, and unique. A mystery that might never be solved. And yet maybe, just maybe, it is such a
mystery and so complicated because we are looking at it wrong. Maybe we are looking at the problem from a skewed lens that is only seeing a partial and distorted image of the whole picture.
This is the problem I have with our current healthcare system.
We are doing it wrong.
We have missed an area of the body that should have been more explored, but instead, we started looking at the body with a smaller and smaller lens. We started putting more emphasis on microbiology, genetics, and pharmacology. We started to rely on medication so much that the industry became one of the largest and most lucrative in the world.
Can you remember a time when you werenât given a prescription for a problem you had?
Even with our impressive array of medical advancements, little has changed. We continue to experience many of the same ailments, if not more, with few explanations that help us understand or address our issues. Worse, many medical professionals seem unable to fix the problem or explain it in laymanâs terms. Einstein believed that even elaborate concepts must be made as simple as possible, which is one reason I suspect that any answer to a medical problem that rests solely on a molecular level is likely the wrong answer. When someone truly understands a problem, they are not only able to fix it, but can also put the problem into simple terms.
I have created a revolutionary method not only for evaluating the human body but also explaining the symptoms that arise. This new approach allows me to offer explanations and solutions for a wide array of symptoms that the medical world fails to explain or provide answers for.
In this book, I will explain the areas in which our current healthcare system falls short, and more importantly where I believe they are operating under false assumptions. Most importantly, I will explain the area of the body that I believe has been overlooked and the results that came from my exploration of this region. Finally, I will talk about where we need to go next in order to fix the mistakes we made and are still making in healthcare.
Letâs start at the beginning.
Who am I? My name is Caleb. I am an expert orthopedic physical
therapist who has dedicated fifteen years to the field of orthopedics. During this time, I would describe myself as aggressively pursuing continued and higher levels of education in order to better treat, not just my patients, but also seek answers for my own health issues.
I do not use the word âexpertâ lightly, as I feel too many people do these days. Since receiving my doctorate in this field, I have obtained four advanced certifications in the field of orthopedic physical therapy.
Years of continuous study and practice, in addition to hundreds of hours of courses, lectures, workshops and classes, have honed my skills as a musculoskeletal expert.
On top of all that, I also married a physical therapist who has degrees in the field of womenâs health, orthopedics, and geriatric medicine. And if that wasnât enough immersion into the world of physical therapy, my wife and I started our own practice, which resulted in long hours but solidified the idea that physical therapy wasâand isâmy life. For the past fifteen years, a single purpose has driven me: How can I better treat my patients? How can I cure their ailments faster and more effectively?
But the answers to my questions fell short. By doing what Iâd been trained to do, I kept applying partial treatments and getting partial results. Nothing I did ever fully addressed the underlying issues. But I never stopped asking questions or seeking answers. When one treatment delivered mixed results, I went on to the next. Where appropriate, I implemented the newest technologies in the field of pain relief and musculoskeletal treatment and continued observing medical procedures and outcomes, benefits, and limitations in my fevered quest to find something that would be the treatment.
For a while, no real answer presented itself, although more and more of my treatments were effective. My patients were responding more quickly with more overall relief, so I kept pursuing the same three questions: How to make patients better, more quickly, and more completely. More and more the answers seem to lead to one area. One area that has been treated for over 2000 years and we still have little idea on how it actually works.1
This area is the spine.
I believe the spine has been overlooked in modern medicine, and that the right treatment of the spine has a far greater impact on the overall health of the human bodyâfar more than we realize.
With this idea and this treatment approach, I have had significant successes where others have failed, and we have treated conditions in a way that no other medical professional would dream of tackling.
Our approach is not only effective, but it also gets to the root of the real issue without slapping a pharmaceutical Band-Aid on it.
For these reasons and others, I decided to write this book. Information is meant to be shared. Treatment this groundbreaking must become commonly known and available.
Over the next chapters, I map out areas of the current healthcare system that are lacking and I will explain my treatment approach by showing you real life examples of patients with ailments ranging from common orthopedic problems to rarely seen conditions. By focusing on the spine and showing patients a new way to look at their bodies, I was able to do something that healthcare largely fails at. I was able to address the cause, not just the symptoms.
Why the spine? Because nearly everything in your body has a nerve innervation that starts in your spine at a specific vertebral level.
What that means is nerves come from your spine, attach themselves to other parts of you, and help provide information such as whether that particular part of your body is hot or cold, stretched or shortened, able to contract or relax, and whether pain is present, or damage has been done.
This is the function of your nerves.
They branch out and connect to almost everything in your body in one splendid neural network. But if those nerves arenât working properly, the information they relay can be wrong, delayed, or absent.
Picture the nerve that comes out of your spine and goes down your leg, into your thigh, and connects to the muscle. That nerve tells the muscle how fast to turn on and turn off. Now, imagine that signal is like the internet. If you have good connectivity and good signal speed, then everything is fine, and you are happily watching Netflix, clicking through Amazon Prime, or texting back and forth with your friends. But if your internet is faulty, then your Netflix stream keeps bufferingâpausing, reloading, or not playing at all.
Same goes for that nerve attached to your leg muscle. If the nerve gets damaged or too much pressure is applied or youâve stretched it too far, then the signal gets delayed.
Imagine what would happen if your quadriceps, the thigh muscle, didnât turn on as strong or as quickly as it should. How long would it take for symptoms to arise? What might those symptoms look like?
Now, extrapolate that to every part of your body: lungs, stomach, shoulder, feet, pancreas, intestines. Any part of your body could potentially have this problem, and the results would be completely different from one another. In one area, you might have knee pain, but in another it might show up as difficulty breathing or stomach pain.
In this next chapter, I will highlight one of our more interesting cases, which involves treating patients with Crohnâs disease and Crohnâs like symptoms. Up until this point, Crohnâs has been viewed almost entirely as an inflammatory problem. The traditional management is dietary changes and strong medication that is taken for long periods of time, if not for life.
But through our slightly different lens we were not only able to offer a better explanation for these symptoms, but also provide complete and lasting relief within a few short weeks.
Recall the number of times you have mentioned problems like knee pain, difficulty breathing, acid reflux, or pain in your feet to anyone in the healthcare field. Did your doctor ever tell you it might be coming from your spine? Did he or she examine your spine and treat it to see if your symptoms disappeared? Probably not.
This has been our approach, one we have continued to hone over the past few years, and the results are groundbreaking. These results should challenge the current medical regime and its approach to evaluation and treatment of most conditions.
I realize these are bold claims. You might be feeling a little skeptical, maybe confused. Itâs good to be skeptical, and I certainly understand why you might be confused. But let me explain this revolutionary approach in a rational and detailed way, one that will answer any questions or doubts you may have. My goal is to have you think to yourself, this makes sense to me, which is what happens to our patients when they see results unfold.
Give me five chapters to make my case and prove to you that what Iâm saying is true. I believe our current healthcare system is flawed and that my new way of looking at the human body and its treatments needs to be a much bigger part of modern medicine. Yes, I realize this sounds farfetched, but I expect to present this information and actual cases in a way that will convince you.
I am the first to admit that up until this point in time, physical therapy has been anything but interesting. Compared to most other branches of medical science, physical therapy is...well, boring. Surgeons are replacing human hearts and geneticists are cloning sheep. Meanwhile, physical therapists are helping patients do straight leg raises and perform calf stretches using stretchy bands.
Yawn.
Itâs time for a change. Here we go.Â
As promised, Dr. Slater takes the reader on a journey through a vast number of health issues, all of which can be marvelously and successfully remediated through his simple approach of treating the spine with physical therapy.
His message has two parts. First, he acknowledges that our current healthcare system is letting us down, offering incomplete solutionsâfrequently involving invasive treatments such as surgeryâthat do not necessarily resolve symptoms. While applauding the effort and dedication of individual doctors, Dr. Slater states, âWhat I am opposed to is a system that restrains physicians. A system that puts them in a situation to fail.â This resonates. As a patient, I am repeatedly frustrated with the way mainstream medicine seems to treat the body as a collection of components, rather than an integrated whole.
Second, Dr. Slater promises a better way. The solution? First and foremost, evaluate and treat the spine. Why does this method so often succeed where other treatments have failed? Because the spine innervates the entire body, providing vital communication to each individual part. With even a small kink in this network, the rest of the system can break down, leading to injury and disease or hindering healing.
âThere is almost nothing in your body that doesnât have a nerve supply, and those nerves mostly emerge from the spine⌠My best explanation is that somewhere along the way, we became too granular in our focus. By micro-searching for answers in our cells, genetics, and chemical interactions, we forgot about the thing right in front of us, a structure that is involved in literally every aspect of our bodies and their functions. We forgot about the spine.â
Written with personality and humor, the book offers plenty of evidence for the efficacy of this unconventional approach, expressed in language perfectly accessible to the lay person. Those within the medical field will gain even more insight from Dr. Slater's frequent references to specific regions of the spine and their correlation to discussed symptoms. However, the occasional f-bomb, though conversational and lighthearted, may alienate some readers.
The bookâs main flaw is one Dr. Slater openly admits: Though his self-acknowledged goal is, âTeach people how to treat themselves,â he has not yet offered any specific information on how to care for the spine. His reasons for omitting this aspect (in this book, at this time) make perfect sense, but for the moment it leaves readers in a predicament. Until more physicians and therapists adopt or adapt his method in their own practices, a suffering person has little recourse beyond booking an appointment with Dr. Slater's Pennsylvania clinic.
But if both patients and professionals take this Spinal Truth to heart and elevate the spine to its rightful place in medical purview ⌠Well, it just might start a health revolution.