Understand the pattern
How emotional stress can reinforce physical pain and guarding patterns.
Kennedy Protocol
A practical clinical guide for chiropractors
Help the patients whose pain keeps returning after good structural care.
Tapping for Chiropractors: The Kennedy Protocol gives chiropractors a step-by-step way to address emotional holding patterns that can keep chronic musculoskeletal pain in place, without turning a chiropractic visit into psychotherapy.
Developed by Douglas Kennedy, DC, in practice since 1989.
A practical clinical guide
Tapping for Chiropractors
The Kennedy ProtocolDouglas Kennedy, DC
The clinical problem
You already know these patients.
They improve with adjustments and manual care, then tighten again after a difficult week.
Their symptoms return even when the structural treatment was sound. Their imaging does not fully explain what they feel. They may flinch, hold their breath, or plateau despite good care.
The Kennedy Protocol gives chiropractors a practical way to work with the emotional dimension of a physical complaint while staying inside a clear clinical frame. It is designed to fit into an ordinary visit and to help the practitioner recognize when to proceed, when to stop, and when to refer.
Inside the book
A protocol you can understand, practice, and use.
Clinical reasoning, clear language, a repeatable sequence, and firm boundaries - all built for real chiropractic care.
Learn the language
The Problem and the Choice Solution, the two phrases at the center of the protocol.
Follow the sequence
Setup, tapping points, pacing, linking rounds, and reassessment.
Stay in bounds
Appropriate cases, cautions, referral points, and when not to proceed.
See it in practice
Patient examples that show how the protocol can fit into real care.
Begin carefully
A Monday-morning path for thoughtful implementation in your practice.
Free 3-page clinical guide
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Kennedy Protocol
Clinic QuickStart Tapping Guide
A concise clinical introduction for chiropractors.
WHEN IT MAY FIT
HOW TO INTRODUCE IT
THE TAPPING SEQUENCE
HOW TO INTRODUCE IT
THE TAPPING SEQUENCE
About the book
Built for the space between structural care and referral.
Many chiropractors were trained well on structure and later added nutrition, but still lack a practical tool for the emotional side of a physical complaint.
Dr. Kennedy explains the clinical reasoning behind the protocol, demonstrates the sequence in detail, and gives clear cautions about scope and referral. The aim is not to replace sound structural care. It is to give experienced practitioners another way to help appropriate patients whose progress has stalled.
✓Step-by-step protocol with quick-reference appendices
✓Case examples, clinical cautions, and referral guidance
✓Great Points tapping sequence reference
About Dr. Kennedy
A clinician's protocol, refined in real practice.
Douglas Kennedy, DC, has practiced since 1989. He spent about eight years in Portland, Oregon, one year in Canada, and has practiced in Boulder, Colorado since September 1996.
His medically based, whole-person approach draws from acupuncture, manual therapy, selective spinal adjustment, physical-therapy modalities, home strength and stability programs, and mind-body techniques including tapping and Havening. He is focused on publishing and teaching what decades of practice have taught him.
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The Ebook
$27
- Full digital ebook (PDF)
- Step-by-step Kennedy Protocol
- Case examples and cautions
- Quick-reference appendices