I am a chiropractor in a small clinic in Ghent, Belgium, and Easy Fit Notes is the public version of the notebook I have kept for years — the explanations of common conditions, the self-care prescriptions, the patient questions I find myself answering on a weekly basis, written down so the next person in the room can have them too.
The notes here are written in the voice I use with a thoughtful new patient: clear about what we know, honest about what we don't, and patient with the timelines that musculoskeletal conditions actually take to resolve. They are not medical advice for any specific person, and they are not a substitute for an in-person assessment with a qualified clinician.
Five notebooks of thirty notes each, covering the patterns I see most often in the practice room: lower back pain in all its variants, neck and upper-back complaints, the nerve-related radiating pain patterns including sciatica, the chiropractic profession itself (what the techniques are, what the evidence supports, how to choose a practitioner), and the bodywork modalities I refer to alongside my own work.
Three principles shape every note. First, conservative care first — the cheap, low-risk, evidence-supported interventions before anything elaborate. Second, no over-claiming — chiropractic and manual therapy have real strengths and real limits, and I try to be honest about both. Third, when in doubt, refer — a working clinician's job is partly to recognise when the patient in front of them needs someone else's expertise, and to make that referral cleanly and without ego.
The writing is mine — a chiropractor in private practice, drawing on a decade and change of in-the-room work and on the ongoing reading that any responsible clinician keeps up with. I do not write under my full name on this site for the obvious reasons of professional caution; the practice details that would identify me have been changed in some of the patient anecdotes for the same reason of privacy.
This is not medical advice for any specific person. It is not a replacement for an in-person examination. It is not a place where I can answer your specific clinical questions or substitute for the chiropractor, physiotherapist, or doctor you can actually sit down with. The notes are written carefully and reviewed before publishing, but the appropriate use of them is as background reading before a conversation with someone who can examine you in person.
The notebook does not currently maintain a public contact form. If you have a clinical question, the appropriate channel is your own clinician. Editorial corrections, broken links, and the occasional reader thank-you note are quietly appreciated and may reach me through the publisher in time.
— Dr. Vermeulen