Gonstead Technique is a full spine, detailed technique using a finicky protocol and very methodical chiropractic diagnostic procedures, including palpation, spinographs, instrumentation, and the use of individual Gonstead tables. Gonstead represents the eventual set in "practical" spinal adjusting and remains the principal in chiropractic techniques. Adhering to the characterization of proper chiropractic as defined by D. D. Palmer, the founder of Chiropractic in 1895, Dr. Gonstead found there was no substitute or better method for analyzing or correcting spinal misalignments than with a pair of skilled chiropractic hands. This remains true today. Dr. Clarence S. Gonstead (1898-1978) began practicing chiropractic in 1923 in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, a small farming community of 1,200 residents in south central Wisconsin. Dr. Gonstead's reputation spread throughout the state, the country and ultimately around the world, as a multitude of patient's health problems were corrected remarkably fast by his brand of chiropractic treatment. Hundreds of patients were seeking his care on a daily basis, and with his dedication to helping these patients, Dr. Gonstead worked from 8 a.m. to midnight six days a week plus every Sunday morning from 5 to 10 a.m. to be able to accommodate these growing patient numbers. When Dr. Gonstead's schedule was at the limit of his physical capability, he knew the only solution to meet the public's health needs on the scale the public was demanding, was to build an unparalleled chiropractic treatment facility and staff it with Gonstead trained associates. (Barbara Migliaccio (1992)
In the early 1960's word was thinning out all throughout the humankind that there was a healer in a small undeveloped society in Wisconsin to whom people of all ages, and walks of life, were flocking. The man was Clarence S. Gonstead. He became a chiropractor in 1923 following a personal familiarity with chiropractic that had helped his body cure from a excruciating, crippling occurrence of rheumatoid arthritis.......
