Lost Chiropractic Audio, Found: New and Restored Talks at Planet Chiropractic
By Michael Dorausch, D.C.
Planet Chiropractic has been putting chiropractic talks online since the dial-up days, when you picked a 28k or 64k link and waited for the stream to start. Many of those recordings were lost when the old Windows Media and RealPlayer formats stopped working. This fall we went back through the tapes and old files, converted what we could to MP3, and added several recordings that were never posted before. Everything plays right in your browser, on a computer or a phone.
You can hear all of it in one place on the Chiropractic Audio page, which updates itself as new recordings are added.
New to the archive
- Unhappy Chiropractors: chiropractic legend Dr. Jim Sigafoose talks about the years when he was an unhappy chiropractor. Running time 6:38.
- Luis Ocon, D.C. speaks to students at CCCLA (1998): Dr. Ocon goes back to Cleveland Chiropractic College in Los Angeles and talks about staying principled, educating patients and finding a mentor. His own mentor was Dr. Sigafoose. Running time 16:27.
- Sid Williams at the Life West campus opening: a 50-second clip in which Dr. Williams says "persistency alone is omnipotent." The full dedication speech is in Chiropractor Sid Williams Dedicates Life West.
- Chiropractic Has Nothing to Do with Symptoms: a 19-second clip that says a lot in very little time.
Classics back online
- Steven Eledge, D.C., the second speaker of the day at the FOCUS Chiropractic Philosophy Weekend in Newport Beach, California (18 minutes). Find it on Multimedia Pages at Planet Chiropractic.
- Bruce Parker, D.C., also from the FOCUS weekend in Newport Beach, in two parts of about 19 and 35 minutes. "What I found out was that anything on this planet can be communicated with intention." Also on the multimedia page.
- Sharon Gorman, D.C., recorded live at a New Beginnings philosophy weekend: New Chiropractic Audio for February (2001).
- Pasquale Cerasoli, D.C. and Bob Tarantino, D.C., recorded at the September 2000 New Beginnings Philosophy Weekend in Eatontown, New Jersey: How about some chiropractic audio? Dr. Cerasoli was 89 and had been a chiropractor for 57 years: "I feel as if I am just starting to learn things."
- Shawn Powers, D.C., an intense 50-minute talk from New Beginnings in January 2001: The Uninhibited Get The Attention.
- Dr. James Sigafoose telling his story to a group of more than 400 people: Christmas with Sigafoose, a 30 Minute Talk.
More on the way
A few recordings are still missing, and there are boxes of cassettes that chiropractors sent us over the years. We plan to transfer more of those tapes next year, and video will follow. If you have an old Planet Chiropractic recording, or a tape of a chiropractic talk you think belongs here, please get in touch.
Put on your headphones and enjoy. These docs still have a lot to say.