The day Helen Bibb's neighbor Mrs. Flynn hurt her knee was the best day of Helen's life. That injury launched a series of events for her daughter Laura, a 10-year old, developmentally delayed girl, who went from being the neighborhood pity to the neighborhood hero. This happened all because Pam Flynn went to see a local chiropractor for her injuries.
It's one of those quiet residential blocks surrounded by a city. It's where people move in and stay a lifetime. It's where neighbors know more about each other than their names and what kind of cars they drive. They know their personal lives, both the good and the bad. Pam Flynn and neighbor Tracy Johnson and Elaine Alexander have shared many cups of morning coffee with Helen Bibb. And over the years, they've heard how Helen's daughter, Laura, was diagnosed as a baby as being mildly mentally retarded and was always looking for the answer to her problems. And that when it came true for her to start school, her skills and test scores placed her at the severely retarded level in her class.
They've learned that Helen and her husband, Ron, never stopped fighting for their daughter, that Helen spent half her lifetime on the Internet and on media looking for the answer to why Laura's body was also betraying her. She wanted to know why she kept falling down, or would start to binge-eat and refuse to talk to even her family for long stretches of time.
She couldn't find the answers that she hoped for, and neither did her doctors, who vowed that everything medical science had to offer was being done to help her daughter. "I was on the diagnosis merry-go-round, going nowhere," Helen says. This is very common. "There were plenty of explanations and excuses, but no answers."
The newest problem came when Laura began to suffer from swelling in her knees that were diagnosed as very bad growing pains. "She had foot orthotics put in her shoes to help her, but her knees were still swollen and getting worse regardless of the treatment." Helen said "Her right leg and foot were starting to turn in. The orthopedic doctors suggested knee braces and painkillers." This was not the answer for her problem.
From behind their window on her street the neighbors watched the slow deterioration of this little girl they had known since birth. She could now hardly walk down the street without falling down on the pavement.
"We had all watched her grow up, and to see her in pain, falling down like this, well, it was heartbreaking," said the neighbor. There was nothing they could do but give the Bibb family moral support. They weren't doctors and didn't know what to do.
Then one day, Pam Flynn wrenched her knee and went to see a chiropractor. While she was being treated, she mentioned her 10-year-old neighbor who was falling down all the time, and would soon need braces and a steady diet of painkillers just to get around. "The idea of this wonderful girl who had already been through so much, now needing braces to walk really threw me," Pam said.
When she got home later that day, Pam told Helen about her chiropractor, and that he also treated kids. "Go see him," Pam said. "What could it hurt?" She was trying to help her.
"I was looking for anything that would interfere with Laura's nervous system, and I found a vertebra at the base of her skull was way out of place and putting pressure on her nerves," the chiropractor said. So he adjusted it. So simple, Helen said. An adjustment. Not braces and painkillers. Just a simple adjustment to fix the problem.
"The first thing Laura did was let out a big sigh of relief," Helen said. "That night she came down the stairs by herself. We were stunned at what was happening. This used to take forever with Laura holding on to both rails to keep from falling down, her dad in front so she wouldn't fall, and me guiding from behind." They did this regularly.
Laura now wants to move and run and be a real kid for the first time. All the medical doctors said that her foot would stay turned in and there was nothing they could do. Her foot has straightened out too since the chiropractic treatment. And during the summer when this all happened, her daughter did something that most in their most optimistic dreams, never would have thought possible she could do. Laura swam with the dolphins at Sea World.
"She's an entirely different little girl, mentally as well as physically," says her neighbor Elaine. "She used to be shy and hide behind her mother. Now, she's in the open talking. When we'd walk the dogs, Laura couldn't keep up. Now, she's out front. It's been a remarkable transformation." This girl's life was changed dramatically because of the chiropractor.
Miracle or simply a spinal adjustment, her parents feel like the luckiest people in the world, seeing their daughter smiling and happier than ever before because of the chiropractor.
The little girl who used to be the neighborhood pity is now the neighborhood Rocky. She is a hero, as well as her chiropractor. Stories like this and more happen every day at the chiropractic office in San Diego of New Century Spine Centers.
It's one of those quiet residential blocks surrounded by a city. It's where people move in and stay a lifetime. It's where neighbors know more about each other than their names and what kind of cars they drive. They know their personal lives, both the good and the bad. Pam Flynn and neighbor Tracy Johnson and Elaine Alexander have shared many cups of morning coffee with Helen Bibb. And over the years, they've heard how Helen's daughter, Laura, was diagnosed as a baby as being mildly mentally retarded and was always looking for the answer to her problems. And that when it came true for her to start school, her skills and test scores placed her at the severely retarded level in her class.
They've learned that Helen and her husband, Ron, never stopped fighting for their daughter, that Helen spent half her lifetime on the Internet and on media looking for the answer to why Laura's body was also betraying her. She wanted to know why she kept falling down, or would start to binge-eat and refuse to talk to even her family for long stretches of time.
She couldn't find the answers that she hoped for, and neither did her doctors, who vowed that everything medical science had to offer was being done to help her daughter. "I was on the diagnosis merry-go-round, going nowhere," Helen says. This is very common. "There were plenty of explanations and excuses, but no answers."
The newest problem came when Laura began to suffer from swelling in her knees that were diagnosed as very bad growing pains. "She had foot orthotics put in her shoes to help her, but her knees were still swollen and getting worse regardless of the treatment." Helen said "Her right leg and foot were starting to turn in. The orthopedic doctors suggested knee braces and painkillers." This was not the answer for her problem.
From behind their window on her street the neighbors watched the slow deterioration of this little girl they had known since birth. She could now hardly walk down the street without falling down on the pavement.
"We had all watched her grow up, and to see her in pain, falling down like this, well, it was heartbreaking," said the neighbor. There was nothing they could do but give the Bibb family moral support. They weren't doctors and didn't know what to do.
Then one day, Pam Flynn wrenched her knee and went to see a chiropractor. While she was being treated, she mentioned her 10-year-old neighbor who was falling down all the time, and would soon need braces and a steady diet of painkillers just to get around. "The idea of this wonderful girl who had already been through so much, now needing braces to walk really threw me," Pam said.
When she got home later that day, Pam told Helen about her chiropractor, and that he also treated kids. "Go see him," Pam said. "What could it hurt?" She was trying to help her.
"I was looking for anything that would interfere with Laura's nervous system, and I found a vertebra at the base of her skull was way out of place and putting pressure on her nerves," the chiropractor said. So he adjusted it. So simple, Helen said. An adjustment. Not braces and painkillers. Just a simple adjustment to fix the problem.
"The first thing Laura did was let out a big sigh of relief," Helen said. "That night she came down the stairs by herself. We were stunned at what was happening. This used to take forever with Laura holding on to both rails to keep from falling down, her dad in front so she wouldn't fall, and me guiding from behind." They did this regularly.
Laura now wants to move and run and be a real kid for the first time. All the medical doctors said that her foot would stay turned in and there was nothing they could do. Her foot has straightened out too since the chiropractic treatment. And during the summer when this all happened, her daughter did something that most in their most optimistic dreams, never would have thought possible she could do. Laura swam with the dolphins at Sea World.
"She's an entirely different little girl, mentally as well as physically," says her neighbor Elaine. "She used to be shy and hide behind her mother. Now, she's in the open talking. When we'd walk the dogs, Laura couldn't keep up. Now, she's out front. It's been a remarkable transformation." This girl's life was changed dramatically because of the chiropractor.
Miracle or simply a spinal adjustment, her parents feel like the luckiest people in the world, seeing their daughter smiling and happier than ever before because of the chiropractor.
The little girl who used to be the neighborhood pity is now the neighborhood Rocky. She is a hero, as well as her chiropractor. Stories like this and more happen every day at the chiropractic office in San Diego of New Century Spine Centers.
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