Growing up a rural farm provided young Gonstead with plenty of opportunities to explore the mechanical world. A few years later his father decided to relocate the family to Primrose, Wisconsin and become a dairy farmer. Gonstead was born in Willow Lake, South Dakota on July 24, 1898, the son of Carl and Sarah Gonstead. With the adoption of the Gonstead technique by Palmer School of Chiropractic in the early 1960s, his technique assisted the profession in restoring chiropractic to its full-spine roots. Although perhaps not his intent, Gonstead redefined the very nature of chiropractic. With a gift of solving mechanical problems, he developed his own ideas on subluxations, x-ray, and adjusting bones through the empirical data he gathered from his large practice. Gonstead changed that and gave the profession a logical and bio-mechanically sound system for practicing chiropractic. At that time the technical skills of the typical graduating chiropractor were crude and rudimentary. Palmer and his Hole-In-One upper cervical specific technique. In the 1930s, the chiropractic profession was dominated by its iconoclastic leader B.

His life was dedicated to clinical competency. Gonstead, D.C.Ĭlarence Selmer Gonstead (1898-1978) took chiropractic practice from back alley bone setting to an understandable bio-mechanical science.

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