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Why are chiropractic adjustments helpful?
Chiropractic is based on the scientific fact that your nervous system controls the function of every cell, tissue, organ and system of your body. Your nervous system consists of your brain, spinal cord, and millions of nerves. While your brain is protected by your skull, your spinal cord is protected by the 24 moving bones of the spine. Many everyday activities can cause these spinal bones to lose their normal position or motion. This can result in nervous system dysfunction and ultimately, ill health. The chiropractic approach to better health is to detect, reduce, and help prevent nervous system dysfunction.
How are chiropractic adjustments performed?
The primary course of care will be specific chiropractic adjustments. This will help return individual spinal bones to their proper motion and position. There are hundreds of ways of using carefully directed and controlled pressure to restore better position and motion to "stuck" or fixated spinal joints. This may require a quick thrust, or in other instances a slow, constant pressure. Sometimes, only one area of the spine is adjusted, and other times the entire spine will receive attention.
What should I expect when receiving a chiropractic adjustment?
Some doctors only use their hands while others will use special tables or instruments. Sometimes, the patient's own body weight is used. Some adjusting approaches can result in a "popping" sound. This sound is created by the shifting of gas and fluid in the joint. The presence or "loudness" of this sound has little meaning and varies with each patient.
** Information provided by Back Talk Systems, Inc. **