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Caron marks 25 years of chiropractic practice
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By CHUCK CLEMENT, Staff Reporter
| 03/03/2010 |
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DR. DOUGLAS CARON demonstrates low-level laser therapy treatment with help from his chiropractic assistant, Tabatha Rozzano. (Photo by Chuck Clement)
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Caron was thinking more on the order of two months.
"That was my goal when I came to Madison -- I was going to practice here for 60 days," Caron said.
According to Caron, his first day on the job was hard to forget, because Mother Nature decided to hit Madison with a blizzard on March 4, 1985.
"My first day on the job was spent with four hours handling a snow shovel and another four hours operating a snow blower," Caron said. "The next day, Tuesday, I had my first patient -- but only one person for that day."
Fortunately for Caron, he expanded his chiropractic work in Madison to the point where he grew from working as an associate with Dr. S.J. Christensen to purchasing the practice. Decades later, Caron still practices at Dakota Chiropractic on N.W. 2nd St. in downtown Madison.
During his time spent treating patients, Caron said, the technology used in chiropractic care has expanded dramatically.
"We've been able to blend technology into the field," Caron said. "We can ask a person's body questions that we couldn't ask before."
Some of those questions are asked during a screening process called "Six Steps to Wellness." The screenings examine each patient's health characteristics such as the structure of their vertebrae, electromagnetic energy of the body's nervous system, and detoxification from chemicals. The process also examines individual nutrition, possible allergies and emotional wellness.
"A chiropractor has to have a basic understanding of several fields -- of neurology, orthopedic treatment, body mechanics and some knowledge of basic physics -- in order to treat patients today," Caron said.
Treatments can include applied kinesiology, in which a chiropractor evaluates a person's posture and muscle strength, and low-level laser therapy, which is applied to restore normal cell function. Caron also practices acupuncture as a method of pain control.
According to Caron, all of the information that he collects from each patient has a particular value -- from the foods that they eat to computer analysis of their body balance.
"It's a matter of correlating all of the information to determine a course of treatment," Caron said. "No one test will work at 100 percent effectiveness in finding what will help each patient."
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