{"id":7671,"date":"2026-09-01T09:13:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/?p=7671"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:17:24","slug":"structure-supports-function-in-chiropractic-and-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmaworks.com\/observations\/structure-supports-function-in-chiropractic-and-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Structure Supports Function in Chiropractic and Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"goalA Recursive Principle<\/em><\/p>\n

Our last two newsletters have been about structure.<\/p>\n

Practice growth depends on putting the right structural elements in place at the right time. Internal procedures, hiring, training, marketing, and many other elements come into play. In addition, aligning each function with the others is part of the challenge for the practice owner and the practice team.<\/p>\n

But your patient has their challenges as well. Their success depends on how well you lay out, and then help them follow, a structured pathway to their health goals.<\/p>\n

Structure is needed to help ensure the function of the practice \u2013 its energy and capacity for growth – occurs unfettered and unimpeded. It is also needed so your patient sees how they will progress to their health goals and how you will help them.<\/p>\n

Lack of Structure in a Chiropractic Practice and the Practice Roller Coaster<\/h1>\n

I have seen this in so many offices\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026an otherwise ambitious, caring chiropractic doctor with well-meaning, positive staff grows the business over many months. The appointment book starts filling up, the patients come in with summer cucumbers as gifts, and the adjusting tables are full.<\/p>\n

But 6 months later, appointments are spotty, the tables are empty, and the doctor wonders where the patients are. Where is the “leak?”<\/p>\n

The Practice Roller Coaster is a well-known malady.<\/p>\n

The energy is there \u2013 and so is the hope, the care, and the drive.<\/p>\n

But the structure wasn’t.<\/p>\n

It may have been at one time, but it didn’t hold. Successful procedures that helped grow the practice dropped out. Others that were needed were never put into play. The improvements needed were overlooked.<\/p>\n

The structure \u2013 the policies, procedures, and people \u2013 wasn’t organized to continue the progress and growth.<\/p>\n

You might even say that the misalignment and lack of structure impeded patients’ and the practice’s progress.<\/p>\n

Perhaps you have experienced this. Maybe it sounds familiar.<\/p>\n

The Recursive Principle \u2013 Structure Supports Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is amazing about chiropractic is that its basic principles can be seen at different levels of life and work.<\/p>\n