“Dr. Todd advises he does what he does because he loves it and it is a combination of heart and hands. He has brought Pettibon Rehabilitation to the light there simply because that is what he knows works,” said Sharon Freese-Pettibon, President of The Pettibon System.  The company extends its heartfelt congratulations to Dr. O’Mealy for serving our military.

On Tuesday Dr. O’Mealy was called forward in front of the entire physical medicine department at Joint Base Ft. Lewis/McChord and the people were called to attention and he was given a medal and a letter of commendation for outstanding chiropractic service above and beyond the call. Of 100 comments forwarded to command, 40 were about Dr. Todd and 30 were about his staff.  The following excerpt is from the Letter of Justification for the Achievement Medal.

“As part of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation’s Customer Service Program “Reach for the Stars”, Dr. Todd O’Mealy accrued 40 comment cards far exceeding any other employee in the entire department.  His impeccable professionalism and customer service with department staff, other providers and most importantly, patients, sets him apart from average providers.  Patients rave about the care they receive from Dr. O’Mealy citing him as the best provider at Madigan.  Patients are elated by their experience with Dr. O’Mealy citing his care and compassion; someone who really listens and goes the extra mile for them.  Patients relay that Dr. O’Mealy is the first provider who has helped them with their pain which has allowed them to continue in their duties.

Always a team player, Dr. O’Mealy, is always ready and willing to perform in any capacity necessary to complete the mission.  Dr. O’Mealy goes out of his way time and time again to ensure patients always get an appointment in a timely manner and works around their work schedules to best accommodate.  His selfless service and dedication to his patients and their needs is illustrated in his actions and the satisfaction of the patients he serves.  He always provides exceptionally high quality care, compassion, and unwavering dedication to his duties.  Dr. O’Mealy sets the example for other civilian providers to emulate.” 

The Pettibon System is a comprehensive rehabilitation program for the spine’s hard and soft tissues. It uses x-rays for diagnosis, assessing progress, and proof of treatment effectiveness. It tests each patient’s ability to respond to care, and trains patients in home care for faster correction. Practitioners from around the world have introduced Pettibon Rehabilitation into their practices providing pain relief, correction and tools for patients to use to maintain their health.  To find out more, please visit www.pettibonsystem.com.

CONTACT:

Miriam Battson, Marketing Director

The Pettibon System

Gig Harbor, Washington

888-774-6258

800-738-4266 FAX

mbattson@pettibonsystem.com

www.pettibonsystem.com

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Dear Dr. Pettibon, Dec 23rd 2010

     Merry Christmas! I contacted you two months ago, and want to give you an update on my progress. I have continued active treatment with Dr. Logan, here in Medford, and have stepped up my home care as time goes on. I invite you to examine my latest x-rays taken last week. I think you will be satisfied with my progress so far, as it must be kept in mind that I have considerable degeneration both in the neck and lower back. How much future progress remains to be seen, but it is incredible that your method not only has arrested the 40 year in progress degeneration, but it appears to be reversing the process. I take liberties in this offer, as these X-Rays belong to Dr. Logan, but I’m sure he would be willing to share them with you. I have one more month of active treatment, then I do a yearly one month trip to Tucson for a Gem show. I hope to resume treatment upon my return and will continue my home care in Arizona.

     My goal is to someday see my X-rays on your home page and to hope to achieve that, I will have to work very hard. This won’t be hard to do at all, as my support group very well may be the best anywhere in the world!

      Could that be an exaggeration? We shall see!

    Sincerely yours, James W

Dear Dr. Pettibon,

   I wish to thank you as I am a patient of yours through Dr. Logan

here in Medford Oregon. My particulars are of the more serious 

nature, which gives more importance, in my case, to the real value 

of your research and Pettibon System development. In two months, 

Dr. Logan has inspired me with his knowledge, dedication, and his 

burning desire to help people like me. Yes, he has helped me so much 

in this short period of time.

   Dr. Logan uses a scientific approach and documents everything he 

does precisely. My assumption is that you gave him valuable guidance. 

When my treatment is concluded I will find the words to thank 

Dr. Logan with all my heart. Right now, I can only hope that you can 

realize the positive impact that your correctly practised system has 

had on my life. I'm 59, and hope to work another 10 years, thanks to 

you, Dr. Logan, and his assistant Jessica.

   I will have serious back issues for the rest of my life, but your 

system has given me hope, and the home care is so ingenious and simple 

that I hope to follow it for the rest of my active life. Again, 

thank you Dr. Pettibon, for your dedication to people like me, and for

opening the door to people like Dr. Logan.

Sincerely yours, 

JW 

So when we heard that it was raining outside after a day in the Pettibon Booth and watched people waiting to walk to their cars, Jenn & I thought “WIMPS!” and took off for the rental car parked across the street from the building we were in.  You need to keep in mind that it had only been raining for at the most 20-30 minutes.  For those of you who graduated from Palmer College, you can stop smurking because you know where this is headed!  At least we had the sense to roll our pants up a couple turns before heading out, not that it did much good.

One thing dear reader that you must understand is that I’m a scuba diver and am used to being wet.  My years of diving the Puget Sound and enduring countless years of “winter rain” that begins in the fall and goes sometimes right through spring unfortunately did NOT prepare me for what we experienced that fine Friday the 13th of August.

We walked out the Alumni Building to cross the small parking lot, go down a few steps and cross the street to the Gymnasium parking lot feeling rather smug.  ”We’re from Seattle” we said over our shoulders, “we’re used to rain!” as we headed out on what turned into a quest to get into the car.  By the time we hit the half way point to the stairs, my glasses had to come off.  The rivers of rain cascading down through the jungles of hair made us long for windshield wipers for the face and then longed for my scuba mask.  We realized this rain was NOTHING like our lovely NW rain!  This was clearly not the kind of rain you could simply shake off and still continue on with your day looking no worse for wear.  So completely soaked, and only half way to the prize we were committed to taking a shower in our clothes as we approached the top of the stairs.  The car, there is was we could see our goal. 

Down the stairs we squished, trying to dodge as many puddles as we could.  Had we known what was coming next, I think we would have just jumped into those with both feet to see how high the splash went, as we did in our childhoods.  Finally, our trek had brought us to the sidewalk .  The car was still in sight, just across the street was the shelter of our lovely rental car.  As we surveyed the flash flood cascading down the street throwing white caps on the front tires of the cars parked at the curb, Jenn did the smart thing.  She took off her shoes and started wading through the water. 

How I longed for my dry suit and underwater camera housing, no one was going to believe this tale from the road… With no extra hands for sandles, I waded in ankle deep (1-1/2″ heel on my sandles) water to cross the road.  Fortunately the driver coming up the road managed to see the two of us sad souls crossing the street and slowed down to enjoy the show.  The small river on the other side of the street somehow did not seem AS deep…

Finally, our epic quest was coming to an end.  The cheerful churp of the locks being opened somehow had a mocking tone.  They seemed to say Silly Tourists you’re nuts!  Once we entered the protection of the car is when the laughter rang out.  We laughed until our sides ached and then grabbed the camera.  If you’d like to experience Iowa rain yourself, turn your shower on so that it’s about 65 degrees F and step into your shower fully clothed for about 2 minutes.  That’s all it takes!  To dry out shoes afterward, that takes another 38 hours…

It rained that evening for about an hour and then resumed to mostly beautiful weather.  Saturday we did manage to get Jenn to the Mississippi River to see it for the first time… 

For you Palmer graduates, can you relate?

The first comes from Dr. Cohen whose daughter frequently comes into the office with him.  One morning as he was getting ready he found Alexa doing this:

She then turned to him and said, “you do”.  Future Chiropractor???

The second story comes from a local baseball player who had back pain during baseball season.  Determined to find a solution that would help keep him in the game, he worked with his Pettibon Chiropractor.  Chance was given several easy to follow exercises and didn’t miss a game after incorporating this into his active lifestyle.  He sent us this photo from a pregame warm up:

Have some pictures you’d like to share?  Join the fun lets see where the Pettibon Equipment goes.

 Please be informed that while employing the Pettibon System in your clinic, you must document what you are doing with the patient and the patient’s response to care.  I have seen many disciplinary issues while serving on the Chiropractic Quality Assurance Commission lately involving providers billing for said services and not having the proper documentation to back up their billings.  If the patient’s insurance denies the services, the provider is liable. 

 There was one case that involved 125 recorded cervical traction and wobble chair maneuvers that were performed in the office over a six month period.  The patient recalled using the equipment exactly 20 times.  The charting was inaccurate, and the doctor wonders why they aren’t being reimbursed.  This is the kind of nonsense that is ridiculous, with any health care provider, especially with one who is correcting the spine. 

 Please do your part and take care of patients, always documenting such.  We cannot control your practice, but would like to save you possible duress, and would like to preserve the integrity of chiropractic as a whole.

Dr. Michael Milasich, D.C. – Tacoma WA

Board Member, WA Chiropractic Quality Assurance Commission