The road to recovery

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Chiropractic Care

Retraining your spine

The purpose of chiropractic care is to align the spine so the body heals itself. This alignment can be achieved relatively quickly in many cases—but not in a way that’s sustainable over the long-term. You’ll experience pain relief in the short-term, but the damage hasn’t been completely corrected—yet.

In most cases, the spine hasn’t functioned normally for a long time. Trying to adapt to interferences meant learning bad habits, and getting a spine back to normal can take years. We start with a Repair Phase initial care plan.

How things go

Step 1: Consultation

You know your health problem better than anyone and we want to hear about it. You will be asked questions related to your problem and understand how that affects your life.

Step 2: Examination (45 minutes)

The initial exam

We analyze your spine in a number of ways in the first exam. This is where we pinpoint the problem and discover interferences:

We look at your posture and how you move.
We test your muscle strength and your reflexes.
We palpate your spine (explore by touch) to determine where there is nerve interference causing a malfunction.
We locate different activity in your body with a thermal (heat reading) scan.
We take an in-office x-ray (with the exception of those who are pregnant and small children) to determine the precise location of a spine interference. An x-ray shows what your spine has been through and how it has adapted (or in most cases maladapted).

We take all of these things together to determine how we can help you.

Step 3: Treatment

Your x-rays are measured (think geometry) to calculate the degree of curvature and degeneration of your spine. This pinpoints what specific part of your spine needs to be adjusted—and in what direction—to remove the interference.

Report of Findings

During your next visit, we generate a report of your condition and discuss where your interferences are and how we intend to remove them. We also discuss how long that will take and what it will cost.

Repair Phase initial care plan

Every patient who comes into our office is different, and that is why we create custom care plans that are unique to each patient based on what their health needs are.

We like to make 3 adjustments to each patient before we determine what each person’s initial care plan will look like, because we are all very different and our body’s have different needs. Typically, the Repair Phase will start at a higher frequency, with the goal being to be as effective and efficient as possible and to decrease the frequency as your health progresses.

Once the health of the spine begins to improve, you’ll start healing yourself and the frequency of visits will decrease—by how much depends on your follow up exam!

Ballpark: It takes roughly one year to reconstruct the majority of spines (some quicker, some slower).

The follow-up exam

After the Repair Phase care plan, it’s time for another exam. We compare this exam to the initial exam (computer posture analysis, thermal scan, and x-ray). If your condition is improving and you’re feeling stronger and moving better, we reduce the number of visits.