So, what’s the answer to spinal subluxation and its harmful
effects? Spinal Restoration Care, including adjustments and the proven
techniques of Chiropractic BioPhysics we use at Living Well Family
Chiropractic. Through our process of spinal restoration, we can restore your
spine to its ideal position, get you out of pain, and set you on your way to a
healthier, happier future.
Each time you get a spinal adjustment, the pressure on the
brain, spinal cord, and nervous system is reduced. But despite this
improvement, one or a few adjustments simply aren’t enough. Think about it:
your spinal cord’s misalignment has resulted from a lifetime of falls, poor
posture, bad sleep habits, stress, hard work, accidents, sports injuries, and
endless other factors. If we adjust your spine just once, it will return to the
position it held before. Your ligaments, muscles, and tendons are like elastic;
they snap right back to what they’re accustomed to. It’s our job to retrain them so that they can adjust to
a new, ideal spinal position and stay there.
Each of your adjustments will be timed and scheduled in such
a way that your spine will not have the opportunity to go back to its prior bad
habits, so it’s important that our schedule is followed as closely as possible.
Think of each adjustment as building on the last. Between your home exercises,
our traction system, and regular adjustments, you will be feeling better before
you know it, and you will also be increasing the quality and longevity of your
life.
Restoring the spine is a long-term process that varies from
one patient to another. Your care plan will depend upon the level of correction
that is needed and previous traumas, as well as our findings from your x-rays.
- First is the Intensive Care Phase. In this phase, our main priority is relaxing your muscles, getting all of your joints moving again, and getting you out of pain.
- Remodeling Phase. During this phase you will be provided with Mirror Image Exercises to do at home on a daily basis, which strengthen your weakened back muscles. In our office, you will receive Mirror Image Adjustments for neuromuscular re-education—essentially, to teach your muscles to go back to their ideal position. You will also do Mirror Image Traction while you’re in the office, which lengthens your soft tissue. Think of the Remodeling Phase like braces; we are gradually aligning your spine to reach its ideal position, even when you are no longer necessarily in pain. This is also when we begin to focus on restoring the ideal shape of your spine using our E.A.T. program.
- Stabilization Phase (e.g. retainer). The Stabilization Phase is analogous to wearing a retainer after braces. It lasts the same duration of time as the Remodeling Phase but your office visits are reduced to once per week.
- Maintenance Phase. Finally, the Maintenance Phase comes after everything else. It’s important to remember that, as great as you might feel, you’re not Superman. We are still living in a world that has changed more quickly than we have changed genetically; thus, we were not designed for it. As such, we need to make a conscious effort to maintain all the positive changes we’ve made during the prior phases of your chiropractic care. This is where the Maintenance Phase comes into play.
The
frequency of visits during the Maintenance Phase can be once a week or once
every few months depending on many factors, including your activity levels. If
you experience any macro or micro traumas during this time, we will immediately
start a new Intensive Care Phase but should not
require a new Remodeling Phase if corrected right away.
Please feel free to ask
questions if you’re a new patient or are considering treatment with us, and
remember: these are our recommendations, not the only treatment possible. And some chiropractic care is better than
none at all!
Working to Restore God’s Perfect Design in
You!
